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Category Archives: Education
“Digital Youth Project” – Youth and knowledge development networks
The MacArthur Foundation has published a report on the “Digital Youth Project”. This is a fascinating report on the findings of a research project that looked at young people’s informal use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and what they … Continue reading
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Is the mobile web all good?
The BBC News site ran an article yesterday about the spread of the mobile web. Nothing surprising about that, it is the big buzz these days. I guess what is noteworthy now is that the “big” corporations (in this case … Continue reading
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The end of the OLPC project?
OLPC is making a big mistake by considering including Windows on its laptops. In this BBC News article, Negroponte is quoted as saying, “We are in the learning business and what the operating system is underneath is less germane” Hogwash! … Continue reading
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References for Millennium Declaration Analysis Series
I have received several requests to post references referred to in my so-called “Millennium Declaration Analysis Series” which I link to in the left margin of the main page of this blog. These lengthy articles are drafts that I produced … Continue reading
Recommendations from whom?
Last summer, Craig R. Barrett, chairman of UN GAID and chairman of the board of Intel Corp., issued a list of “Recommendations from the UN GAID Chairman”. A couple of the recommendations are worthy of a slightly raised eyebrow, and … Continue reading
Posted in Development, Education, ICTs, Internet, Leapfrogging development
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SimCity on the OLPC laptop
Update: I didn’t dig deep enough to see what was really meant concerning constructionism and SimCity – see here – makes more sense now. Game producer Electronic Arts has donated the original SimCity to the OLPC project (read more here). … Continue reading
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