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What do we know about using mobile phones in education? (part 2)
Recentposts to this blog about the use of mobile phones in education in developing countries have generated a *lot* of page views. News earlier this year that firms in the United States are beginning...
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Surveying the use of mobile phones in education worldwide
The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) schools in India has just announced a mobile phone ban, echoing similar calls in many other places (from Sri Lanka to South Korea, from the UK to the...
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1-to-1 educational computing initiatives around the world
The One Laptop Per Child program has brought much attention to issues related to '1-to-1 computing' (each child has her/his own personal computing device). While perhaps the most prominent initiative...
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Learning from Becta
The recent news that Becta, the UK's ICT/education agency, is to be abolished later this year has been met with shock in many quarters outside the UK. (I don't pretend to know how this has been...
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Learning from national ICT/education agencies
Over 100 education policymakers from 32 countries gathered last week in Seoul to share lessons, experiences and opinions in response to the following question:How should an education system structure...
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Sharing experiences on building national ICT/education agencies
There was a good reason for the recent Global Symposium on Building national ICT/education agencies to have taken place in Seoul. South Korea has demonstrated that making a single specialized agency...
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Crowdsourcing, collaborative learning or cheating?
Challenges for educators in the Internet ageWherever there are rules, there are almost inevitably people looking to break them, especially where a compelling incentive exists for those willing to risk...
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How (not) to develop ICT literacy in students?
In most cases, in most places -- at least in most so-called 'developing countries' -- the use of computers and other ICTs in schools is in practice focused largely on the development of what is...
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