WISE awards for outstanding educational achievement
The Qatar Foundation has recently announced the launch of its WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education) awards for outstanding educational achievements. In this inaugural year, the WISE Awards...
View ArticleReflections on WISE – The World Innovation Summit for Education
I do not usually like big conferences and summits. All too often, people read prepared papers or speeches, and rarely inspire or speak from the heart. However, the World Innovation Summit for...
View ArticleMonitoring and Evaluation of ICT in Education initiatives: reflections from WISE
The second WISE (World Innovation Summit for Education) summit provided an opportunity for colleagues from Education Impact to host a lively and highly participatory workshop designed to contribute to...
View ArticleDiscussions on educational partnerships
For those interested in education partnerships The Partnering Initiative is convening what should be a very interesting breakfast event next week on 5th June at the Science Museum in London and there...
View ArticleBarriers to learning through mobile devices in Africa
I had the pleasure of participating in the Planet Earth Institute‘s discussion on mobile technology for education in Africa, held on 5th June at the House of Lords. It’s interesting how such...
View Article#EFF7: Access and Quality in Education – can we achieve both?
The latest Education Fast Forward debate is due to be held tomorrow, 17th July 2013, at 13.30 GMT+1. The debate, featuring Carol Bellamy and Andreas Schleicher on Access and Quality in Education – can...
View ArticleICTs for Education Initiatives
I spent last week in Abuja for the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation‘s Annual Forum and Council meeting, during which there was also a meeting of ICT Ministers, at which many of them...
View ArticleTransform Africa 2013 and a celebration of Rwanda
I had the great privilege – especially as a white Yorkshireman – to be invited to chair the session on Smart Education at Transform Africa 2013 held in Kigali, Rwanda – a conference led by Africans,...
View ArticleSummary of Keynote for COL’s PCF7 in Abuja
Despite limited digital connectivity, I just thought I would upload a short summary of my upcoming keynote at the Commonwealth of Learning’s Seventh Pan-Commonwealth Forum this afternoon to encourage...
View ArticleEducation Fast Forward – 10th Debate
Education Fast Forward is a great initiative that brings together leading global experts and change agents from the world of education to debate key topics in contemporary education. The forum...
View ArticleThoughts on mobile learning for the EFA GMR 2015
I was delighted to have been asked by UNESCO to write an overview of the evolution of mobile devices and their uses in learning (m-learning), focusing especially on the fifteen-year period of the first...
View ArticleEducation reform in Pakistan: rhetoric and reality
One of the most interesting aspects of my visit to Pakistan in January this year was the informal, anecdotal information that I gathered about educational change in the Punjab, and in particular DFID’s...
View ArticleAgainst “EdTech”…
Sitting in on a recent donor-stakeholder discussion about the use of ICTs to support education for poor people in developing countries, inspired me to formalize my critical thoughts on the increasingly...
View Article“The future of learning and technology in deprived contexts”: a report for...
It was an enormous privilege to work with David Hollow, Meghan Brugha and Mark Weber last year on a report for Save the Children International about the future of learning and technology in deprived...
View ArticleInteresting practices in the use of ICTs for education
I have all too frequently been asked to suggest examples of “best practice” in the use of ICTs for education, and have always so far resisted. “Best practices” tend to be promoted by those who wish to...
View ArticleWhy we don’t really know very much about the influence of ICTs on learning...
Exploring the future of the interface between ICTs and education for UNICEF recently provided a valuable opportunity to reflect on the conflicting evidence about the influence of ICTs on education....
View ArticleThe dark side of using ICTs in education
Much evidence has been adduced to suggest that ICTs enhance not only the quantity but also the quality of education and learning; those selling such technologies have skilfully created an atmosphere...
View ArticleParticipating in the DFID-funded technology for education Hub Inception Phase...
It was great to be part of the DFID-funded technology for education EdTech Hub three-day Inception Phase consultation retreat from the evening of 29th July through to 1st August held at Royal...
View ArticleFailures and corruption in DFID’s education programme in Pakistan
DFID’s much-vaunted education programme in Pakistan has been beset by problems since its very beginning. Many of these issues could have been avoided if people responsible had listened to the voices...
View ArticleShort guides to literature on technology use in education: both the positives...
Infant school in Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire Far too many initiatives using technolgy in education fail to learn from the experiences of others as they seek to be innovative and novel....
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