{"id":903,"date":"2010-06-02T09:25:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T13:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/?p=903"},"modified":"2012-09-27T10:37:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T14:37:31","slug":"what-low-cost-ict-devices-are-available-to-educators-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/low-cost-ict-devices\/what-low-cost-ict-devices-are-available-to-educators-today\/","title":{"rendered":"What Low-cost ICT Devices are Available to Educators Today?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back at the turn of the century, education was gripped by the diffusion of amazing hand-held devices for children. These tools, at first considered an expensive and delicate novelty, soon became standard for every child in wealthy education systems and from there defused around the world to nearly every classroom. <\/p>\n

This is actually a description of slate tablets<\/a> in the early 1800’s, but it could aptly describe the technological revolution we are seeing in education today with low-cost ICT devices.<\/p>\n

The rise of ICT devices<\/b><\/p>\n

From single-purpose educational aids like the Teachermate to commercial netbooks that can be re-purposed for the classroom, information and communication technology is dropping in cost while increasing in functionality and robustness. Soon, these ICT devices will be like slates in the 1800’s – ubiquitous.<\/p>\n

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Netbooks – one type of low-cost ICT device for education<\/i><\/center>
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In 2008, info<\/i>Dev<\/a> at the World Bank complied a Quick guide to low-cost computing devices and initiatives for the developing world<\/a> to try and record the most prominent or promising of these devices. <\/p>\n

For June, the Educational Technology Debate will attempt to update and organize this list through two efforts:<\/p>\n

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  1. The list itself is now available as an editable Google Doc – we invite you to review and contribute to it here: Low-Cost ICT List – Draft Update<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. We’ll also highlight some of the more interesting initiatives on the list in weekly posts for your input and commentary<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Our goal is to have a comprehensive, up-to-date list by the end of June for future publication on the info<\/i>Dev<\/a> website.<\/p>\n

    Do note that we do not expect this list to be exhaustive, it’s a Quick Guide after all, and we are purposely leaving off mobile phones, as well as the plethora of devices that could be<\/i> used in education, for a more targeted list of hardware devices that are used<\/i> in educational systems of the developing world.<\/p>\n

    We welcome your contribution to this endeavor in the comments or as your own Guest Post<\/a><\/p>\n

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    From single-purpose educational aids like the Teachermate to commercial netbooks that can be re-purposed for the classroom, information and communication technology is dropping in cost while increasing in functionality and robustness. Soon, these ICT devices will be like slates in the 1800’s – ubiquitous.<\/p>\n

    In 2008, info<\/i>Dev<\/a> at the World Bank complied a Quick guide to low-cost computing devices and initiatives for the developing world<\/a> to try and record the most prominent or promising of these devices. <\/p>\n

    For June, the Educational Technology Debate will attempt to update and organize this list through two efforts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[512],"tags":[519,520,151,464,514,16,518,515,516,517],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903"}],"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=903"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2576,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903\/revisions\/2576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edutechdebate.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}