{"id":753,"date":"2010-04-05T09:30:23","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T13:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/?p=753"},"modified":"2012-09-27T10:37:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T14:37:32","slug":"what-ict-tools-are-appropriate-for-teachers-in-south-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/ict-tools-for-south-asia\/what-ict-tools-are-appropriate-for-teachers-in-south-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"What ICT Tools are Appropriate for Teachers in South Asia?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 21st, in New Delhi, India, the Educational Technology Debate will have a live event discussing this pressing question: <a href=\"http:\/\/edutechdebate-etd.eventbrite.com\">Are Most Investments in Technology for Schools Wasted?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To help inform that conversation, and develop a better understanding of the information and communication technologies (ICT) available to educational systems in South Asia, this month&#8217;s online Educational Technology Debate is focusing on the larger topic of:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>What ICT tools are Appropriate for Teachers in South Asia?<\/b><br \/>Educators often get overlooked, with a rush to put gadgets in children&#8217;s hands.  But teachers can leverage small ICT investments into big impacts. What technology tools available in South Asia can help advance their teaching skills and classroom effectiveness?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you know of a tool that&#8217;s both appropriate for teachers in South Asia and available in India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, or Sri Lanka please let us know in the comments below.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to discuss one at length, please consider <b>submitting a Guest Post<\/b> by <a href=\"mailto:editors@edutechdebate.org\">sending us an email<\/a>.  We&#8217;re seeking post-length contributions on this topic. <\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"embednewsletter\">\n<h2>Don&#8217;t miss a moment of the action!<\/h2>\n<p>Subscribe now and get the latest articles from Educational Technology Debate sent directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n<form action=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify\" method=\"post\" target=\"popupwindow\" onsubmit=\"window.open('http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=EducationalTechnologyDebate', 'popupwindow', 'scrollbars=yes,width=550,height=520');return true\"><input class=\"text\" id=\"email\" name=\"email\" type=\"text\"><input value=\"EducationalTechnologyDebate\" name=\"uri\" type=\"hidden\"><input name=\"loc\" value=\"en_US\" type=\"hidden\"><input value=\"Sign Up\" class=\"img\" type=\"Submit\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/EducationalTechnologyDebate\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~fc\/EducationalTechnologyDebate?bg=003366&amp;fg=FFFFFF&amp;anim=0\" height=\"26\" width=\"88\" style=\"border:0\" class=\"fburner\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br style=\"clear:left;\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educators often get overlooked, with a rush to put gadgets in children&#8217;s hands.  But teachers can leverage small ICT investments into big impacts. What technology tools available in South Asia can help advance their teaching skills and classroom effectiveness?<\/p>\n<p>If you know of a tool that&#8217;s both appropriate for teachers in South Asia and available in India, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, or Sri Lanka please let us know.  Your input will help frame the live debate: <a href=\"http:\/\/edutechdebate-etd.eventbrite.com\">Are Most Investments in Technology for Schools Wasted?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[429],"tags":[431,432,433,439,27,13,434,435,436,430,437,39,438],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2590,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/2590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}