Launching an iPad 1-to-1 Program: A Primer
Technology is redefining traditional educational paradigms, and many schools are interested in integrating the latest technological advancements into the school curriculum. While increased incorporation of technology seems to be inevitable, most schools are ill-prepared to enter the 21st century owing to a lack of resources, a dearth of appropriate personnel,…
U.S.-Funded Internet Liberation Project Finds Perfect Test Site: Occupy D.C.
When Sascha Meinrath saw the Occupy encampment in D.C., he saw something few others would — a testbed for technology.
Meinrath has been chasing a dream for more than a decade, ever since he was a liberal arts grad student in Urbana, Illinois: community wireless networks. From that small…
Uruguay’s Plan Ceibal: The world’s most ambitious roll-out of educational technologies?
“It is the most profound and irreversible of revolutions” said Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez of the myriad changes that information and communications technologies are having on societies. President Vázquez was speaking at an event sponsored by the Inter-american Development Bank in Washington earlier this week to highlight his country’s accomplishments…