Technology is changing education at an unprecedented rate. Children today are entering a world of digital opportunity like never before but at the same time there are risks and down sides. EdAlive eNews for Teachers keeps you up to date with developments from around the world and ail in one easy to access place.
South Korean education goes online
South Korea, one of the world’s highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum by 2015. The are planning to be able to deliver all of the curriculum materials in a digital form through computers. The information that would once have been in paper textbooks will be delivered on screen.
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Read more... $250 computers for low income American families
Microsoft and its hardware partners will offer a new line of computers in 2012 starting at $250 in an initiative designed to put computers into the the hands of as many as 17 million kids from low income American families. Read more…
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