UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair, used this week's CBI (Confederation of British Industry) conference to outline his vision of how the UK will build a dynamic knowledge economy. Speaking at the CBI's annual conference in Birmingham, Blair said...
In the wider IT evolution, we’ve been through phases where IT has been used to automate, inform and transform the business. The basic premise of our education is to develop the ability to think our way around a problem, as opposed to learning by rote.
Tengtu provides education software and distance-learning services to more than 35,000 Chinese schools, with 17.5 million students. The company was selected by the country's Ministry of Education to run the main education portal and distance...
The project in Lambeth will see a large number of students and teachers issued with laptops. Each of the four Pathfinder projects aims to try out different approaches to improving education through ICT.
The Cobb County School District, located in the Atlanta suburbs, is recommending that its school board pursue a deal with Apple to equip all teachers in the county, along with all high school and middle school students, with Apple laptops.
The company is also targeting those environments within the more mature markets where technology has still not made a great impact, such as many of the less well-off rural and inner-city primary and secondary schools.