June 29th - July 2nd, 2010 – Orlando, Florida, USA
http://www.iiis2010.org/EISTA/
Honorary President: Freddy Malpica
Program Committee Chairs: Friedrich Welsch and José Vicente Carrasquero
General Chair: Andrés Tremante
Main Purpose
Relationships between Education/Training and Information/Communication Technologies (ICT) are increasing acceleratingly, sometimes in unexpected ways, with original ideas and innovative tools, methodologies and synergies. Accordingly (...)
The government of Senegal and Microsoft are experimenting ways and means to improve the quality of teaching and learning through information communication and technology (ICT). They launched on Wednesday a three-year project to evaluate actions already taken towards the use of ICT in schools and build visions.
Including the use of ICTs in a view of improving the quality of teaching and learning is the aim of the partnership sealed by Microsoft and Senegal. The program was launched on (...)
Addis Ababa, 04 Feb (MAP) - The Euro-Africa Forum on Information Communication and Technology (ICT) opened on Thursday at the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa.
Initiated by the Seventh Framework Program for Research and Development (FP7) in partnership with the African Union Commission (AUC) and the European Commission, this meeting is intended as a platform for exchanging ideas and thoughts on development research in ICT in Africa and an opportunity to (...)
Berlin, Germany. Lusaka, Zambia. How have mobile phones, the Internet and computers changed people’s lives on the African continent? To find out, eLearning Africa has launched an online photography contest. The organisers are inviting people from Africa to submit images that show how they live, learn and work with Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).
The top three entries will win a photo camera, a mini camcorder and an iPod. The ten best photos will be featured in an (...)
The training workshop for teachers and their supervisors on the Pedagogical Integration of ICT in classroom practice jointly organized by the International Institute of UNESCO for Capacity Building (IICBA) and the UNESCO Office in Yaoundé has started on Monday, January 25, 2010 in Yaounde.
Mrs. YOUSSOUF born Hadidje ALIM, Cameroonian Minister of Basic Education, who was accompanied for the occasion by the Secretary of State for Basic Education, conducted the opening session at the (...)
When UNESCO’s Bangkok Office announced the release of its E-Learning Series on Information and Communication Technology in Education in June 2009, it was beyond expectation that 3,000 CD-ROMs would run out in just a few months. Requests for copies came literally from everywhere. To satisfy users’ demand, the Bangkok Office makes now its CD available online.
The series is intended for all those who are interested to learn more about ICT in education. The CD contains two (...)
In their determination to use Information and Com munication Technologies (ICTs) to propel the development and integration process on the Continent, African leaders Tuesday declared the ICT sector as ’’a sector of top priority’’.
In their ’’Addis Ababa declaration on Information and Communication Technologies in Africa’’, the leaders therefore requested the African Union Commission to set an African digital agenda identifying the main stages.
The agenda is to be set in collaboration with (...)
Ariana Leonard’s high school students shuffled in their seats, eagerly awaiting a cue from their Spanish teacher that the assignment would begin.
"Take out your cell phones," she said in Spanish.
The teens pulled out an array of colorful flip phones, iPhones and SideKicks. They divided into groups and Leonard began sending them text messages in Spanish: Find something green. Go to the cafeteria. Take a picture with the school secretary.
Leonard’s class at Wiregrass Ranch High School in (...)
