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DOT-COMments Articles by Intervention: Computers in schools
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Title: Yemens Public and Private Sectors Look Ahead Together
Issue: March 2007, Issue 19
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: At a recent gathering in Taiz, Yemen, leading members of the public and private sectors, and the international donor community met to discuss ways of propelling Yemens education system forward through the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT). The Looking Forward Summit: Harnessing ICT to Build the Future of Yemeni Education was presented by the Prime Minister and facilitated by EDC. The summit was a culminating event for the dot-EDU project Internet in Yemeni High Schools (IYHS) and the Instructional Leadership in Schools Initiative (ILSI) projects funded by USAID and the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), two projects that have been working in Yemen to integrate appropriate technologies in schools and grow capacity within its education system.
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Title: Producing Learning Gains in India with the Group Teaching and Learning (GTL) Multimedia Hybrid in One-Computer Classroom
Issue: June 2006, Issue 16
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: In many countries around the world where computers are being introduced in the classroom or in computer labs, the ratio of students to computer remains very high. In such contexts, teachers often have to devise solutions that are less than optimal since most educational software is designed for a user-to-machine ratio of one-to-one or two-to-one. In response to this challenge, dot-EDU's Technology Tools for Teaching and Training (T4) project in India has created a method of using educational software that adresses many of the conditions typical of developing country classrooms. The result is called the Group Teaching and Learning (GLT) Multimedia Hybrid.
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Title: Deploying Low-Energy ICT A technical overview
Issue: February 2006, Issue 15
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: This article is a follow up to a brief article that appeared in the December DOT-COMments, "Low- energy Internet for Education - Where Electricity is a Challenge", which described an effort to set up a low-power rural technology lab in Uganda. This article responds to requests from readers for a technical overview of the project.
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Title: Schools are Wired, Teachers Innovate: E-School Makes an Impact
Issue: February 2006, Issue 15
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: The goals of the E-School project are to install computers in every primary school and high school in Macedonia and to train teachers to use technology to support student-centered and project-based pedagogy. Two years into the project, E-School has installed more than 5000 computers and trained more than 2500 teachers. These efforts are starting to pay of in terms of impacts as this article indicates.
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Title: The Yemeni High School Internet Pilot Project
Issue: December 2005, Issue 14
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: The Yemeni High School Internet Project is a three-year initiative funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative, through USAIDs dot-EDU project. This article provides an overview of the project's progress towards reaching its objective of improving teaching and learning through ICT, with a strong emphasis on increasing girls' access to ICT.
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Title: Moving Beyond the Computer Lab: E-Schools.mk, Macedonia
Issue: July 2005, Issue 12
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: E-School.mk is a project funded by the United States Agency for International Developments (USAID) dot-EDU initiative, which is using the computers donated by the Government of the People's Republic of China, in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and Science (MoES) of the Republic of Macedonia, to introduce a new concept of information and communication technology (ICT) use in education. The goals of E-School.mk are to install computers in every primary school and high school in Macedonia and to train teachers to use technology to support innovative student- centered and project-based pedagogy.
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Title: Enlace Quiché: Metamorphosis from dot-EDU Project to Guatemalan NGO
Issue: January 2005, Issue 9
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: If USAID, the Ministry of Education, and everyone else is so happy with the Enlace Quiché project, why is it ending so soon?
That was the topic of discussion in mid-2003 among local staff and key stakeholders who had watched the project grow over three years into a respected local player in educational development, pushing the envelope of educational technology as a cross- cutting tool for improving educational quality in Guatemala. Moreover, they asked what could be done to build on and scale up the pilot experiences. The answer was to create a local NGO . This article presents an overview of the transition, highlighting critical decisions and windows of opportunity.
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Title: Online Professional Development Changing Education Perceptions and Practices in Namibia
Issue: Spring/Summer 2004, Issue 7
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: Through the USAID/Namibia-funded Initiative for Namibian Education Technology (iNET), dot-EDU is providing professional development to Namibian teachers using online education. Via access to the web-based Teaching to Standards with New Technologies (TSNT) course and asynchronous communication with instructors and peers, Namibian teachers in the National Institute for Educational Development (NIED) are learning how to use technology to improve their education abilities.
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Title: Community Resource and Learning Center (CRLC) Inauguration in DR Congo
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: July 2003 -- "This is inauguration fever" commented one excited staff member of the newly-opened Community Resource and Learning enter (CRLC) in the Vanga Mission, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
After much anticipation, the Community Resource and Learning Center was inaugurated on July 12, 2003. This Center is located in Vanga, a rural community of approximately 3000 people on the banks of the Kwilu River in Bandundu Province.
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Title: Multiple Learning Channels to Attain Education For All in India
Issue: Winter 2003, Issue 6
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: USAID/India, the Education Development Center and resource partners have developed a three year project to improve the reach and quality of primary school education in Chhattisgharh, Karnataka and eventually Jharkhand State. The Technology Tools for Teaching and Training (T4) in India project will provide teachers with in-service training to improve content and methods, and multichannel instruction in English, Math and Science using media ranging from interactive radio to a mobile video unit.
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Title: Changing Lives and Education in Guatemala with Internet Connectivity
Issue: Fall 2003, Issue 5
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: Now as the second phase of the Enlace Quiché project has begun under dot-EDU, including the opening of an additional seven centers, connectivity prices have fallen within sustainable reach of all centers, with Satellite connections for as little as $150/month, which can be covered by each center through user fees. This vast price drop as well as the increasing interest on the part of the project partners, participating schools, and community members in using the Internet, compelled the project to make connectivity a key aspect of all their efforts.
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Title: Using ICT for Environmental Education and Youth Empowerment in Lebanon
Issue: Fall 2003, Issue 5
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: The Youth CaN Med (Youth Communicating and Networking - Mediterranean) project is introducing sustainable, systematic technology into Lebanese schools to enhance student's understanding of environmental issues. This USAID/Lebanon dot-EDU project, awarded to the Education Development Center and implemented by iEARN (International Education and Resource Project), is setting the standard for youth empowerment projects through its focus on youth leadership and technical training of students and teachers.
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Title: Initiative for Namibian Educational Technology (iNET) Kicks Off
Issue: Summer 2003, Issue 4
DOT: DOT: dot-EDU
Summary: The Initiative for Namibian Educational Technology (iNET) USAID cooperative agreement, was recently signed and kicked off by dot-EDU Deputy Director, Steve Dorsey, and E-Learning Specialist, Kelly Morphy, in Windhoek in early March. iNET is part of Namibia's National Institute for Educational Development's Educational Development and Support Network. Designed to speed the adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) within the Namibian education system, iNET will work both at the school and Ministerial level to foster the development of technology champions and improve ICT policies throughout Namibia
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Title: Building of Bilingual Virtual Learning Community Underway in Quiché Region, Guatemala
Issue: Winter 2002, Issue 2
DOT: DOT: DOT-COM
Summary: Expansion plans are off to a great start for former LearnLink project, Enlace Quiché in Guatemala. Under its new cooperative agreement, Proyecto Enlace Quiché is using ICTs to strengthen the training of intercultural, bilingual educators. New plans include the opening of seven additional technology centers, training of new technology center staff, and the creation of a web portal which will serve as a virtual bilingual learning community for Mayan language teachers, community members, and partners affiliated with the project.
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Title: All Three "dots" Work in Rwanda
Issue: Fall 2002, Issue 1
DOT: DOT: DOT-COM
Summary: All three DOT-COM Alliance members are working in Rwanda to help strengthen the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in government, education, and broad development through three different projects.
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