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Reading and … mobile phones? Promising ideas and issues to consider

Explore the potential of mobile phones in revolutionizing educational systems and consider the promising ideas and challenges associated with their use. Learn about their impact on reading and literacy, and discover how technology can be effectively utilized for educational development in developing countries.

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Reading and … mobile phones? Promising ideas and issues to consider

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  1. Reading and … mobile phones?Promising ideas and issues to consider Michael Trucano mtrucano@worldbank.org Sr. ICT & Education Specialist The World Bank All Children Reading: From Assessment to Action April 12-14, 2010 Washington, DC

  2. “I believe that the mobile phone is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. It is possible to touch every branch of human knowledge through the mobile phone. “

  3. I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. It is possible to touch every branch of human knowledge through the motion picture. -- Thomas Edison 1922

  4. “Get smart”

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  6. appropriate

  7. relevant

  8. effective

  9. and, just as importantly…

  10. inappropriate

  11. irrelevant

  12. ineffective

  13. uses of technologies

  14. to aid a variety of development objectives

  15. including EDUCATION!

  16. What do we know about usingtechnology in education in developing countries?

  17. What do we know about usingtechnology effectivelyin education in developing countries?

  18. ICTs=information&communicationtechnologies radio computers TV Internet phones devices

  19. book  e-books

  20. book e-books

  21. book  e-book

  22. interactive radio instruction

  23. NicaraguaMalawiSudanHaitiIndiaKenyaNepalPapua New GuineaSomaliaGuineaSouth Africa

  24. computers

  25. educational television

  26. photo courtesy kiwanja.net

  27. photo opportunities

  28. Photos courtesyMatthew Kam, MILLE.org

  29. or

  30. promising new opportunities for reading and literacy?

  31. ?

  32. some data about toilets

  33. "The number of mobile subscriptions in the world is expected to pass five billion this year, according to the International Telecommunication Union. That would mean more human beings today have access to a cellphone than the United Nations says have access to a clean toilet.”- NY Times, 6 April 2010

  34. “Just as Sesame Street helped transform television into a revolutionary tool for learning among young children four decades ago, advances in mobile technologies are showing enormous untapped educational potential for today’s generation."- Joan Ganz Cooney Foundation Center at the Sesame Workshop

  35. BBCJanalaBangladeshNokia Nokia Life Tools IndiaPearsonMobileduChina

  36. increasingly pervasive

  37. increasingly powerful

  38. increasingly inexpensive

  39. increasingly personal

  40. increasingly mobile

  41. increasinglymobile

  42. anytimeanywhere

  43. but can you really read on them?

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