What Makes Educational Technology Successful in the Developing World?
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Osvaldo Rodriguez
Aug 23, 2011, 8:53:48 AM8/23/11
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What Makes Educational Technology Successful in the Developing World? By David Risher
What makes some technology so compelling and transformational that it thrives in a school setting and others languish? We've all heard stories of computers gathering dust in storage rooms while students and teachers everywhere have taken to photocopiers, calculators and, of course, cell phones.
One of my most surprising moments upon entering a very basic primary school in rural Ayenhyah, Ghana - a room with no electricity or running water - was being told that the school had a no cell-phone policy. Students have such a hunger for communication that they get their hands on a mobile phone by any means necessary. They keep them charged using the full power of their creativity, hooking them up to the small solar cell powering the community's medical clinic or latching them onto a motorcycle battery. Kids from Botswana to the U.S. to Zambia love to text.
What Makes Educational Technology Successful in the Developing World? By David Risher
What makes some technology so compelling and transformational that it thrives in a school setting and others languish? We've all heard stories of computers gathering dust in storage rooms while students and teachers everywhere have taken to photocopiers, calculators and, of course, cell phones.
One of my most surprising moments upon entering a very basic primary school in rural Ayenhyah, Ghana - a room with no electricity or running water - was being told that the school had a no cell-phone policy. Students have such a hunger for communication that they get their hands on a mobile phone by any means necessary. They keep them charged using the full power of their creativity, hooking them up to the small solar cell powering the community's medical clinic or latching them onto a motorcycle battery. Kids from Botswana to the U.S. to Zambia love to text.
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Ines
Aug 23, 2011, 10:17:22 AM8/23/11
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Hi Osvaldo,
A most interesting article, an eye-opener, these are memes, this is
viral. Children and adolescents have the same urges eveywhere in the
world.
Thank you for your contributions to EduMOOC, I´ve been mostly a lurker
but have been able to follow, reflect on and profit by all the
positive discussions going on.
Ines Cambiasso
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A most interesting article, an eye-opener, these are memes, this is
viral. Children and adolescents have the same urges eveywhere in the
world.
Thank you for your contributions to EduMOOC, I´ve been mostly a lurker
but have been able to follow, reflect on and profit by all the
positive discussions going on.
Ines Cambiasso
inesca...@gmail.com
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