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Edtech and MOOC Times in China
The Chinese word for MOOC is ... MOOC If you want to see the future of online education, lots of people will tell you to head out to Silicon Valley or New York City or Cambridge (either of them) or...
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Key themes in national educational technology policies
interesting: this policy says this,and that policy says that ... The World Bank is concluding an analysis of over 800 policy documents related to the use of information and communication technologies...
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Research questions about technology use in education in developing countries
let's investigate this systematically ... Back in 2005, I helped put together a 'quick guide to ICT and education challenges and research questions' in developing countries. This list was meant to...
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Lessons from the drafting of national educational technology policies
let me make sure to press the right levers in the right order so that I’m in harmony with everyone else Begun in 2004 by the ICT/education team at UNESCO-Bangkok, who were later joined by AED,...
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Banning and unbanning phones in schools
forbidden ... or encouraged? When planning for new initiatives that will introduce and/or utilize information and communications technologies (ICTs) in some way, a simple general rule of thumb is worth...
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Tablets in education
tablets: the cure for what ails education? While it can sometimes be difficult to understand just what exactly the related question or challenge is, in many education systems around the world, the...
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Innovative educational technology programs in low- and middle-income countries
so many ideas ... are any 'out-of-the-box'? Much is made of the need for 'innovation' in education. Bullet points containing words like 'disruption' and 'transformation' increasingly characterize...
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New landmark OECD PISA study on 'Students, Computers and Learning: Making the...
OK, I think I'm developing the outline of something pretty interesting here The OECD today released a landmark report on students, technology and learning based on data from PISA, the international...
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Surveying ICT use in education in Africa
I have a better sense of where things are today, but the more important question is: Where are things headed? I began my career exploring the uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs)...
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Video games, screen time and early childhood development
there must be a screen here somewhere, where could it be? At 9:00 am this past Monday morning, almost 30 people crammed into a small conference room at the World Bank in DC to talk about ......
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Common (and uncommon) approaches to preventing the theft of computers,...
if you don't pay attention, I'll steal this tablet right out of your pocket! Many critics of contemporary schooling practices have noted that, if a teacher from the 19th century was magically...
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Complexities in utilizing free digital learning resources
What do you mean, 'gratis'or 'libre'? It's 'free'and so I'm taking it! Here's a scenario I have encountered more than a few times. Officials at a ministry of education in ___ tell me that: They've...
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Learning to code vs. coding to learn
hello world! This week over a million students around the world will participate in the Hour of Code, an annual event designed to excite interest in computer science and computer programming. This...
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The introduction of large scale computer adaptive testing in Georgia
we feel so lonely now that everyone has moved over to the computer roomTesting: For better and/or for worse, many education systems are built around it (although some perhaps not as much as others). In...
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Top World Bank EduTech blog posts of 2015
take your pick -- some are rather yummy! For the past seven years the World Bank's EduTech blog has sought to "explore issues related to the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to...
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Learning from the use of technology in showcase schools
just 'act natural' and pretend we're not here When the Russian Empress Catherine the Great visited Crimea in the late 18th century, the nobleman Grigory Potemkin is meant to have had fake village...
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Zero-rating educational content on the Internet
are we creating two separate tracks? which one points the way forward, which way backward? and: what should it cost to ride? Over the past dozen years or so, I have seen and/or heard dozens (probably...
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Mobile Internet buses, vans and classrooms to support teachers & learners in...
bandwidth can be a challenge Over the past 15 years, tremendous strides have been made in providing computing equipment and Internet access to schools around the world. Despite this, however, many...
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Learning from a visit to a school using technology: Some questions to consider
how should I frame this? Over the past two decades, I've had the good fortune to visit hundreds and hundreds of schools across all six continents to learn about how they are using new technologies --...
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How students in Uruguayan schools are being taught English over the Internet...
viewed from afar, some things seem sort of strange Recognizing its relevance in the global marketplace, the small South American country of Uruguay has placed increasing emphasis on improving the...
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