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Technology and Child Development: Evidence from One Laptop per Child Program in Peru

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

Tags: 1:1 computing 1:1 learning, academic achievement, academic software, Coding test, cognitive skills, computers in schools, Educational Outcomes, Evidence, Human Capital, IDB, Inter-American Development Bank, Language, Laptop, Math, objective data, OLPC, OLPC Peru, One Laptop Per Child, Peru, randomized evaluation, Raven’s Progressive Matrices, verbal fluency
Posted in OLPC in Peru | 28 Comments »

The greatest challenge: starting with the solution, not the problem

Thursday, November 17th, 2011

Tags: Curriculum, Feature Phones, FM Radio, Human Constraints, ICT in Schools, ICT interventions, ICT4D, ICT4E, ICT4EDU, Language, Literacy with ICT, low literacy, Market Failure, Samantha Burton, technology restrictions, Total Cost of Ownership
Posted in Literacy ICT Challenges | 16 Comments »

Assistive Technology Must Address Extreme Poverty and Support Local Content

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

Tags: Assistive Technology, Cliff Schmidt, Content, Electricty, Language, Literacy Bridge, Poverty, Talking Book
Posted in Assistive Technology | 2 Comments »