What research departments studying the sense and non-sense of ICT in education say about OLPC
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- There are methodologies to measure the impact of ICT in education.
- It appears these methodologies are good measuring the impact of ICT in education in developed countries, but not so much in measuring the impact of ICT in developing countries. Example: the methodologies don't measure if e.g. the implementation of the XO-XS results in more or less kids attending school, dropping out of school, teacher motivation, self-confidence, self-esteem, respect, contribution to finishing the school system, etc.
- There is a category on evaluation. This generates a page with a list of all the pages on the topic of evaluation. Authors also have the option to add the category "Evaluation" to the page they are writing/developing so it appears on the evaluation category page.
- MIT Media Lab - Prof. Nicholas NEGROPONTE: “We dropped off tablets with no instructions and let the children figure it out,” he says. “They were using 50 apps in five days. They were singing the alphabet songs in two weeks. And they’d hacked Android within 6 months.” as per http://blog.ted.com/2014/03/17/back-to-techs-future-nicholas-negroponte-at-ted2014/
Suggested Links:
- Education and Corruption: http://www.transparency.org/gcr_education
