10 Open Source Tools For Busy Teachers - Edudemic

If you need some powerful software right now and don't have time or money to waste, these open source tools are perfect for you.

Read more at: http://www.edudemic.com/2013/06/10-open-source-tools-for-busy-teachers/

What Is Web 3.0 And How Will It Change Education? - Edudemic

We'll reach a new state of web skills when we reinvent technology tools to better enhance our personal learning. We'll be at 3.0 when schools are everywhere and not viewed as daycare.

So what is Web 3.0 and how will it change education? What does that even mean?

Read more at: http://www.edudemic.com/2013/06/what-is-web-3-0-and-how-will-it-change-education/

Can Drones Save African Wildlife From Poachers?

A Kenyan reserve plans to use an unarmed drone to monitor the area for illegal hunters.

Robert Breare, who works in strategy and innovation at Ol Pejeta, toldMashable the decision came during a brainstorming session on technology and its role in conservation.  "What this does is put an 'eye in the sky' to monitor things we just can't see from the ground."

Read more at: http://mashable.com/2013/06/05/poachers-drone/

Africa: Tech Cities - Africa's Next Big Thing?

One is dubbed ‘Africa's Silicon Savannah', taking a cue, of course, from the Silicon Valley high-tech industry on the west coast of the USA. And the other is still in the form of a plot of land acquired by the Ghanaian tech-businessman, Roland Agambire, already being referred as ‘Hope City'. I call them Africa's next big idea. By way of generalisation, I should add, when it comes to science and technology, this type of thinking - ambitious, risk-taking and out of the box - is uncharted territory for Africa.
Africa's Silicon Savanna is (about 60km southeast of the Kenyan capital Nairobi) a US$14.5bn mega project to build the Konza Techno City and was officially launched by President Mwai Kibaki at a groundbreaking ceremony on 23 January 2013. The mission of Konza Techno project is to serve as a world-class IT hub with the goal of creating 100,000 jobs by 2030.

Read more at: http://allafrica.com/stories/201305260214.html

Infographic: What Does an Educational Technologist Do?

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46 Education App Review Sites For Teachers And Students

Katie and I can't cover the entire education app industry by ourselves. Luckily, there are dozens of other sites specifically devoted to education app reviews for teachers and students.

Read more at: http://edudemic.com/2013/05/46-education-app-review-sites-for-teachers-and-students/

GPS solution provides three-minute tsunami alerts

Researchers have shown that, by using global positioning systems (GPS) to measure ground deformation caused by a large underwater earthquake, they can provide accurate warning of the resulting tsunami in just a few minutes after the earthquake onset. For the devastating Japan 2011 event, the team reveals that the analysis of the GPS data and issue of a detailed tsunami alert would have taken no more than three minutes.

Read more at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130517085819.htm

Interactive whiteboard for primary schools in Mauritius: An effective tool or just another trend?

Authors:
Goonesh Kumar Asvin Bahadur, University of Mauritius, Mauritius
Deorani Oogarah, Primary School, Mauritius

Mauritius is among the few African countries where the interactive whiteboard has been implemented in all primary schools. This has been possible thanks to the Sankoré project, an initiative of Franco-British Summit and the Government of Mauritius.
The interactive whiteboard is an important tool in the classroom as it changes the mode of instruction.  In this research project, an educational learning tool was designed and mounted using XERTE which is an Open Source Authoring tool, to test whether interactive whiteboard can improve learning in schools.

Read more at: http://ijedict.dec.uwi.edu//viewarticle.php?id=1559

Online IT Programs and Jobs

Online IT programs and courses help in providing the knowledge and skills required for jobs in this challenging field of IT and computer engineering.  This page provides more details of the programs available, the schools where they can be taken, the career prospects, and more ...
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The Teachers and the Use of ICT For Professional Development

In this age of rapid change and uncertainty, there is one thing which is very paramount and pertinent to know-teachers will need to adapt to change if they are to be relevant, survive and keep pace with new methods and technologies. The area of most rapid change is that of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT). Therefore this paper investigates how teachers use ICT for their professional development. One of the questions being asked by many teachers is: What will be the long term impact of the introduction of these technologies into the classroom? Other questions are being raised are: What kind of skills will teachers need to acquire in order to be effective in an ICT based learning environment? How does ICT impact professional development?

Read more at: http://zunia.org/post/the-teachers-and-the-use-of-ict-for-professional-development

Melinda Gates: Tech's Responsibility to the Developing World

Following the TEDxChange event last week, Melinda Gates explains why the tech sector has a responsibility to foster change in developing nations.

Melinda Gates is no stranger to technology. After working at Microsoft in various roles for nine years, she understands tech, specifically, how it can help people overcome obstacles, disrupt the status quo and make room for global progress.
Gates is also a social good pioneer. Philanthropist, businesswoman and co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, she has spearheaded efforts to improve health and development around the world.

Read more at: http://mashable.com/2013/04/09/melinda-gates-positive-disruption/

Find Out About Teaching Online

Innovations in ICT and the possibilities opened up by teaching online, are enabling exciting classroom activities to be developed at all levels of children's education (elementary to grade 12).
Find out about the range of Internet technologies available for teaching online and enabling exciting online classroom activities to be developed at all levels.

Read more at: http://onlineanddistancelearning.com/teaching-online

REPORT RELEASE! Education Technology in India: Designing Ed-Tech for Affordable Private Schools

Education technology interventions have promised the reinvention of education for children in the developing world. But time and again these interventions have failed to reach their potential due to a lack of understanding of the school environment and users, leading to poor implementation of the product.
As a team of researchers in Hyderabad, India, we sought to understand how education technology solutions could be better designed to serve the needs of users. Insights were garnered from surveys, interviews, various human-centered design research methods, and secondary research conducted in 2012 and 2013 in Hyderabad, India.

Read more at: http://edtechindia.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/report-release-education-technology-in-india-designing-ed-tech-for-affordable-private-schools/

Free Technology for Teachers: Teaching Art Online and Other Art Talks on Google+

One the best parts of the Art Project powered by Google is the option to create your own artwork collection while visiting each museum. As you're touring a museum click on the "+" symbol on any work of art see it in greater detail, to add it to your collection, and to open background information about that work of art. You could have your students go on an art scavenger hunt to create collections of art according to a theme, time period, or artist.

Read more at: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2013/03/teaching-art-online-and-other-art-talks.html

ODTA.net is the new home of the Open Development Technology Alliance

We are proud to announce that the Open Development Technology Alliance (ODTA) launched its new portal ODTA.NET a knowledge platform aiming to give voice to citizens and improve accountability by offering ways to provide feedback on public services.
ODTA aims to enhance accountability and improve the delivery and quality of public services through technology-enabled citizen engagement. The ODTA is an initiative of The World Bank, anchored by theWorld Bank Institute, the Social Development Department and the ICT Sector Unit of The World Bank.

Read more: http://zunia.org/post/odtanet-is-the-new-home-of-the-open-development-technology-alliance-0

World Radio Day Reflections - affordable ICTs solutions make radio more relevant

The just concluded Word Radio Day saw KenTel undertake a series of trainings on practical interventions for radio mainly looking at selected Free Open Source Software’s and Social Media.
Here is a recap of the presentations; since many of the community radios or community centres/telecentres do not enjoy the benefits of broadband internet connectivity we narrowed down to options that would need limited or no access to internet to implement. KenTel is happy to note that its capacity to train and moderate sessions on Social Media was developed by The Technical Centre for Agriculture and Rural Cooperation (CTA), through the various new media trainings that CTA has been undertaking in various countries across the ACP countries. We also wish to acknowledge the training from UNITAR.

Read more at: ICT for Education and Development

Saving the world through social media? How development is going digital

Maeve Shearlaw: From tracking World Bank projects to Twitter conversations with Rwanda's health minister, technology is driving innovation

Social media and mobile technologies offer a wide range of benefits for people working in development: a potentially cheap and efficient way to link citizens with their governments, the chance to monitor real-time progress on projects, and the ability to connect people from remote parts of the world to share experiences and teach best practice.
It is no surprise that there's an endless stream of development projects trying to tap into these technologies. In many cases it's still too early to tell what difference these efforts will make, but here are five that caught our eye.

Read more at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters/2013/jan/04/saving-world-social-media-development-digital

Technology Management Degree Programs

A technology management program will provide you with the skills and knowledge that you require to enter an exciting and rewarding field at the forefront of organizational change.  This page provides more details and has links to selected schools offering these programs.
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Technology Management MBA

A technology management MBA will provide you with the skills and knowledge that you require to get ahead in this highly strategic field.  This page provides more details and has links to selected schools offering these programs.
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Technology Management MBA Programs

Opening up education for new technologies – changing teaching and learning through ICT | New Europe

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“ICT impacts on education in many ways. Access to satisfactory ICT infrastructure is of course a pre-requisite. PISA 2009, the Programme for International Student Assessment which evaluates education systems worldwide by testing the skills and knowledge of 15-year-olds, found that at least 50% of students in Europe were in schools where one computer is available for every two students – a significant improvement in comparison to 2000, when there were between 25 and 90 students per computer. Having said that, infrastructure needs a suitable framework and new curricula need to be developed to ensure successful use of the technological means.”

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