Tag: unesco

Learning to live both with and without

The report underscores the importance of learning to live both with and without digital technology; to take what is needed from an abundance of information but ignore what…

Soylent-like solutions

Meaningful, impactful education is like this, too. It’s not just a matter of rote learning, of memorizing facts, or of internalizing certain routines. If anything, it’s also about…

Post-abundance

This points toward drastically curtailing the energy and resource demands associated with the production and consumption of digital technologies in the pursuit of lifelong learning. The environmental costs…

Managed against checklists

Children without schools were risks to their own and the world’s future. The power of this knowledge to discursively render children as objects in their communities, assets to…

Turning on mobile learning in europe

The second barrier to mobile learning is negative social attitudes held by policy-makers, parents and teachers about the use of mobile phones in schools. Mobile phones are widely…

Assessment Experiences (Brazil)

These seven dimensions of results clearly show the wide potential and diversity of the impact that digital technologies may have in the school universe. Theassessment must back projects…

Unesco and new techniques in education

The present crisis in education shows that attempts to meet the demand by linear expansion are financially illusory and pedagogically outdated. In the years to come the human…

Well-established potential

Mobile devices are often banned from schools and other centres of education, despite considerable and, in many instances, well-established potential to enhance learning. Such bans project a view…

Mobile learning

Mobile technologies, by virtue of being highly portable and relatively inexpensive, have enormously expanded the potential and practicability of personalized learning. […] Cumulatively, intelligent mobile devices, many of…

Is it any different this time?

Enter information and communication technologies: compact discs and CD-ROMs, videodiscs, microcomputer-based laboratories, the Internet, virtual reality, local and wide area networks, instructional software, Macs, PCs, laptops, notebooks, educational…

Reticence bordering on fear

Controversial impact

How should policy-makers decide whether computer education will achieve the particular objectives they have in mind? This study reviews a number of analyses that have already been done…

Universalisme

Med udbredelsen af globale sammenligninger af de nationale skole- og uddannelsespræstationer i regi af transnationale organisationer som OECD, UNESCO, IEA og EU er der opstået en art pædagogisk…