This article shares that technology giants such as Cisco Systems, Intel and Microsoft are investing heavily in global education reform initiatives in developing nations like India, Jordan, underscoring the need to prepare students for an increasing global, information-based workforce. It also shares some of the different technologies and pedagogical approaches that have been used so far.
"We teach teachers how to use (technology) in the classroom, not just in the areas of math and science but we train teachers how to use technology to make art, history, language or any subject more exciting to kids," Intel Chairman Craig Barrett told Reuters in an interview on Thursday.
The new program is part of Intel's annual global investment of more than $100 million in improving education in schools and universities.
Leading microchip maker Intel Corp plans to spend $300 million over the
next four years on a Web training program to help teachers incorporate
technology into their lesson plans.
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The world-changing hundred-dollar laptop is going into mass production, which means that soon one of two things will happen. Either a) a huge number of these things will get shipped into developing countries and begin to crash and pile up, broken, in heaps; or b) a huge number of these things will pile up in some warehouse because the orders still aren't coming in.
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The Intel Corporation reversed ground Friday and joined the board of the
One Laptop Per Child Foundation, an ambitious effort to seed the
developing world with inexpensive portable computers.
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This article shares that technology giants such as Cisco Systems, Intel and Microsoft are investing heavily in global education reform initiatives in developing nations like India, Jordan, underscoring the need to prepare students for an increasing global, information-based workforce. It also shares some of the different technologies and pedagogical approaches that have been used so far.
"We teach teachers how to use (technology) in the classroom, not just in the areas of math and science but we train teachers how to use technology to make art, history, language or any subject more exciting to kids," Intel Chairman Craig Barrett told Reuters in an interview on Thursday. The new program is part of Intel's annual global investment of more than $100 million in improving education in schools and universities.
Leading microchip maker Intel Corp plans to spend $300 million over the next four years on a Web training program to help teachers incorporate technology into their lesson plans.
The world-changing hundred-dollar laptop is going into mass production, which means that soon one of two things will happen. Either a) a huge number of these things will get shipped into developing countries and begin to crash and pile up, broken, in heaps; or b) a huge number of these things will pile up in some warehouse because the orders still aren't coming in.
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