Newsletter: February 2012

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Dear all,

We hope you enjoy reading this first edition of our newsletter (below and in the attached PDF), with highlights, news, projects and resources related to using mobile learning for reaching the Education For All goals. Please do not hesitate to post your comments on the mailing list and tell us what you would like to see in the next edition.

Best regards,
UNESCO Mobile Learning Team

Highlight: First UNESCO Mobile Learning Week

UNESCO Mobile Learning Week produces tangible results

A set of mobile learning guidelines, teacher training initiatives in four regions and a series of working papers, along with a budding community of practice are among the initiatives launched during the first UNESCO Mobile Learning Week (12-16 Dec.) run in partnership with Nokia.

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/education/resources/online-materials/single-view/news/unesco_mobile_learning_week_produces_tangible_results/

UNESCO Mobile Learning Week Report

http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/ED/ICT/pdf/UNESCO%20MLW%20report%20final%2019jan.pdf

More information on the event on UNESCO’s website

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/m4ed/mlw/

News & Events

The digital divide: a tale of two schools

As a volunteer teacher of migrants on the border of Thailand and Myanmar, Vicky Colomba had daily contact with the digital divide. She describes her experience in this article.

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/single-view/news/the_digital_divide_a_tale_of_two_schools/

‘The mobile phone is often called the computer of Africa’

As lead program manager at the World Wide Web Foundation, Stephane Boyera aims to use technology to empower marginalized populations in developing countries – as well as providing essential services such as education. He spoke to EduInfo during UNESCO’s first Mobile Learning Week in December 2011.

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/single-view/news/the_mobile_phone_is_often_called_the_computer_of_africa/

UNESCO IIEP, Microsoft and Orange partner to gather educational data in Africa

UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning, Microsoft and Orange launched a joint initiative to collect data on education systems using mobile media. The pilot phase of the project will take place in one of six African countries that participated in the meeting on Innovative Financing in Education, Dakar, Senegal, 8-9 Dec. 2011 (Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal).

http://www.iiep.unesco.org/no-cache/en/news/single-view.html?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1019&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=262

Programmes & Projects (UNESCO and non UNESCO)

Yoza Cellphone Stories

South Africa is a "book-poor, mobile phone-rich" society. To see if teenagers there would read stories on their mobile phones, Steve Vosloo, manager of the Nokia-UNESCO partnership, launched the m4Lit (mobiles for literacy) project. Yoza Cellphone Stories developed from this idea. Supported by the Shuttleworth Foundation, the stories include mobile novels, Shakespeare and other classic authors.

http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/themes/icts/single-view/news/yoza_cellphone_stories_getting_south_african_teenagers_reading/

Momaths

Nokia Mobile Mathematics connects learners by using personal mobile phones to study maths.

http://projects.developer.nokia.com/Momaths

Resources (UNESCO and non UNESCO)

Mobile Learning Portal

This website, hosted by the Learning Technology Center in the College of Education at The University of Texas at Austin, is designed to be a central point of access to the wide range of research, projects, and other resources related to the use of mobile technologies in learning environments.

http://www.mobilelearningportal.org/

New report: eTransform Africa

The World Bank Group and the African Development Bank, with the support of the African Union, have produced a new ‘flagship’ report on how ICTs, especially mobile phones, have the potential to change fundamental business models in key sectors for Africa. This report focuses on education.

http://edutechdebate.org/digital-learning-resources/etransform-africa-final-report/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+EducationalTechnologyDebate+%28Educational+Technology+Debate%29

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