Saturday, March 17, 2012

How to Integrate Technology?

Many developments in the educational world happen in the developed world. Later these developments are adopted by the developing world or the under-developed world. The same applies to the integration of technology. Most of the developments are taking place in the developed world. Situation in the developing and under-developing is different in this world. Computers or any personal portable technological gadgets, which have become a necessity in the developed world, are still a luxury and unaffordable in the developing and underdeveloped world. In this blog, I intend to muse on integrating technology in a learning environment with limited ICT infrastructure.       

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  1. This is a topic I am very interested in. We hear a great deal about how places like the African continent are, in effect, jumping over the computer phase and going straight to using the mobile/cell phone as the computer in the pocket. For example many Kenyans use their mobile phones to transfer money even though the phones are probably not that smart.

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    1. Have you heard of the hole-in-the-wall experiment? See http://www.ted.com/talks/sugata_mitra_shows_how_kids_teach_themselves.html

      Groups of children in India were given access to a computer and the Internet - with no tuition. All the groups taught themselves. The speaker's main point is about how children can self-educate in situations where a 'normal' education is lacking, and how educational technology needs to be directed at the most disadvantaged, who can benefit the most from it.

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