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Most investments in technology for schools are wasted: Discuss<\/b>
There is a general consensus that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as radio, TV, computers, the Internet, and mobile phones can increase educational experiences and improve education.
But is this opportunity being overhyped?<\/em><\/p>\nThe debate will be moderated by Dr Tim Kelly, Lead ICT Policy Specialist, infoDev\/World Bank. He will introduce the topic and our discussants, who will respond with concise arguments in an attempt to sway the audience. This will be followed by a moderated discussion and concluded with panelists giving a concluding argument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[429],"tags":[21,13,464,462,461,463,460],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805"}],"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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2587,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions\/2587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}