Selected publications (.pdf)

"Education Change, Leadership and the Knowledge Society" 
Global e-Schools Initiative (GeSCI)  

Survey of ICT in education in the Caribbean
Volume 1: Regional trends & analysis
Volume 2: Country reports
infoDev 

Using technology to train teachers:
Appropriate uses of ICT for
teacher professional developmen
t
 
infoDev (Mary Burns, co-author)

Project evaluation:
Uganda rural school-based telecenters

World Bank Institute
(Sara Nadel, co-author)

The Educational Object Economy:
Alternatives in authoring &
aggregation of educational software 

Interactive Learning Environments
(Purchase or subscription req'd) 

Development of multimedia resources 
UNESCO (Cesar Nunes, co-author)

Real Access/Real Impact
Teresa Peters & bridges.org
(hosted for reference; RIP TMP) 

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Sunday
Mar012009

Local nomads (really local)

The NY Times reports on the connection between kids using schooldesks that allow them to stand up in class and improved academic performance. While research has yet to be completed... 

We just know movement is good for kids,” Ms. Bormann said. “We can measure referrals to the office, sick days, whatever it might be. Teachers are seeing positive things.
Compare this approach to the WAP-delivered test-preparation content discussed previously for Senegal. In contrast to requiring that kids have mobile-phone accounts...

“We’re talking about furniture here,” [Ms. Reisenger] said, “plain old furniture. If it’s that simple, if it turns out to have the positive impacts everyone hopes for, wouldn’t that be a wonderful thing?”
 

It is.

(One wonders, also, the degree to which stand-up desks might be a "disruptive technology" in the discipline-centered classrooms of so many countries. They would certainly be a cheaper technology, more easily implemented, with more easily assessed impact.)


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