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Tuesday, December 4, 2012

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Armando Pisani: the pioneer who holds the key to immediate increases in school attainment?

Want immediate improvements in student attainment in schools, especially in maths? Listen to this guy. He’s a pioneer. Armando Pisani is uni...
Cambodia: what do you do when all teachers are killed?

Teachers annihilated Cambodia all but wiped out its teachers in the 1975-79 Khmer Rouge genocide. In a curious twist of fate, many of the se...
More holes in Sugata Mitra’s ‘Hole-in-Wall’ project

“ I wouldn’t take it if you offered it to me for free ” said the head of the school I visited in the huge Katutura Township on the outskirt...
Good, bad and ugly: 7 critics of social media

I’m of an age (56) where lots of my contemporaries show contempt towards social media. It’s rarely a reasoned argument, simply a sneer accom...
Wikipedia Zero – mobile as lifeline to learning

It jars when I hear people say online learning isn’t used. Don’t you use Google, Wikipedia and lots of other online services to learn? I kno...
MOOCSs: 20 ways to monetise

MOOCs aren’t all about money but when it comes to their future, money does matter. Calls for the monetisation of MOOCs are reasonable, altho...
Oculus Rift: learning machine that will blow your mind!

One of the most talked about and exciting devices (to be released 2014) is not the Apple Watch or iPhone 6), it’s the Oculus Rift virtual re...

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