WORKING PAPER 1 | JANUARY 2012 B R O O K E S H E A R E R W O R K I N G PA P E R S E R I E S A NEW FACE OF EDUCATION BRINGING TECHNOLOGY INTO THE CLASSROOM IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD REBECCA WINTHROP AND MARSHALL S. SMITH Global Economy and Development at BROOKINGS BROOKE SHEARER W O R K I N G PA P E R S E R I E S This working paper series is dedicated to the memor y of Brooke Shearer (1950-2009)‚ a loyal friend of the Brookings Institution and a respected journalist‚ government official
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Disadvantage and Advantage of Education Choices Students today have so many options to enhance their education. While traditional education has advantages for the students‚ online education can have the same components and techniques just in a different method of teaching. Online education better prepares a colleague for their future by offering smaller student to teacher ratios and tailoring materials to the student’s specific interests; however‚ traditional school education prepares a colleague to
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1 Including Disabled Children in Learning:Challenges in Developing Countries1. The continuing challenge of including disabled children in education The drive to achieve Education for All (EFA) by 2015 has led to a focus on the barriers toparticipation in basic education for marginalized groups (UNESCO‚ 2010). In particular‚ therehas been significant criticism that disability was not mentioned in the United NationsMillennium Development Goals (MDGs) (Albert et al.‚ 2005): “As the world strives toachieve
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Anthony DeSteno 8/21/13 3rd Cobis Education is Important Education in anyone’s yearly years of life is very significant if you plan on ever becoming a “big shot” in life. It is important that you strive for the educational goals that you want to complete and go for the targeted objective to fulfill your dream of becoming that lifesaving doctor that you want to be‚ or the quarrel lawyer that you have always seen on television‚ or the dark defying marine biologist because if the pictures that
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The Importance of Education Can you believe that in some countries education is not free? And in “Pakistan”‚ the Taliban doesn’t let girls go to school because they think‚ that “God is a tiny‚ little conservative being who would send girls to hell”. Just because of going to school. In my opinion‚ the importance of education is undeniable for every single person. It goes without saying that education has a positive effect on human life. All people need to study‚ only with the advent
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parents in student’s academic success. Based on Bouffard and Steffen (2007)‚ research has revealed that family involvement benefits vary across demographic groups‚ it is important for educators to be aware of cultural and background factors which are exclusive to their school communities (Bouffard and Stephen‚ 2007). Bouffard and Steffen (2007) found that “research links family involvement in middle and high school to students’ positive academic and social outcomes”
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Inclusive Practice The word ‘curriculum’ originates from the chariot tracks in Greece. In Latin ‘curriculum’ was a racing chariot; and ‘currere’ was to run. Therefore it was a course. ‘Curriculum is a body of knowledge-content and/or subjects. Education in this sense is the process by which these are transmitted or ’delivered’ to students by the most effective methods that can be devised.’ (Blenkin et al 1992‚ pg 23). And so‚ curriculum is the activities that learners will undertake to achieve certain
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transforming attractions that once saw themselves as primarily either education- or entertainment-oriented. It’s even spawned a new word: edutainment. The American Heritage Dictionary defines edutainment as "the act of learning through a medium that both educates and entertains." In that definition‚ learning is the key element. We’d suggest that when applied to the location-based entertainment (LBE) industry‚ the emphasis is switched. We define LBE edutainment as "events‚ programs and attractions where the
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Thai Higher Education: Policy &Issue 12/24/13‚ 1:26 PM This is the html version of the file http://inter.mua.go.th/main2/files/file/Plicy&Issue/OHEC%20Policy&IssueThai%20Higher%20Education%20PolicyIssue.pdf. Google automatically generates html versions of documents as we crawl the web. Page 1 Thai Higher Education: Policy &Issue Differentiation and expansion of Higher Education Institutions within the higher education system Currently‚ participation to Thai higher education has almost
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Education Sector In a globalized economy with a high degree of competition among countries‚ the success of a nation depends on the educational level of its workforce. Technology has rapidly transformed education by extending learning space beyond the four wall of a classroom. Even though school plays the main role of education‚ technology offers verities of opportunities to learn more. Such as‚ Distance learning‚ online learning communities and access to vast resources and databases‚ etc. with the
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