Monday, October 30, 2006

Nelson Mandela is a wise man

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I came across this thread of information. It comes from the The World Congress on Communication for Development . It was a conference that j...

Resources need thought

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We are in the process of setting up a virtual classroom for high school music. And the question has come up regarding storage and bandwidth....
Saturday, October 28, 2006

Homework-casting

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As far as I am concerned, Quentin D’Souza has it right . This is iLearn 2.0.
Friday, October 27, 2006

iLearn 2.0

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I’ve been put back into a focus upon technology and education. I’ve been so busy blogging about my critical technology that I haven’t had ...
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Community Knowledge Management

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I've created a concept map for my latest research topic of; Community Knowledge Management Systems for Development (CKMS4D). ABSTRACT: T...
Friday, October 13, 2006

Muhammad Yunus & Grameen Bank win Nobel prize

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This is a great choice for the Nobel Peace Prize of 2006. I like it most because it is giving a very public view into microfinance and how e...
Sunday, October 01, 2006

We need gapminder!

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In my previous post I was being critical of the way some of the data was being presented in gapminders' World Income Distribution animat...
Friday, September 29, 2006

Dollar a day ???

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A couple of weeks ago I was watching Hans Roslings' TED talk about the gapminder technology. A very interesting talk about global data...
Monday, September 25, 2006

Royal Holloway ICT4D Reflection

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It's been over a week since the ICT4D Symposium and I have had some time to reflect on what I learned. All the learning has added to my...
Friday, September 22, 2006

Transparency and Microfinance

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Due to the current UN general assembly there seems to be increased talk about the effectiveness of the UN. As I reflect on all I am reading...

Millennium Village

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Sachs does not only espouse the differential diagnosis at the country level, he also utilizes it at the community level. The Millennium Vill...
Thursday, September 21, 2006

Freire's view of differential diagnosis

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During the feedback session after presenting my paper at the ICT4D symposium someone made the comment that a Freirian approach to "dif...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Lenin's famous statement

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I'm doing some reading today about a comment made during the ICT4D symposium and I ran across this Lenin quote, "Without a revoluti...
Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Royal Holloway ICT4D

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I'm just back from Royal Holloway University of London where I presented my paper on the Critical Technologist. The paper hit the mark f...
Monday, August 07, 2006

Learner Centered Approach in Ghana

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I came across this brief paper on Learning in the Digital World. What stood out for me were the authors experiences in the USA and their ap...
Saturday, July 22, 2006

Critical Technologist planning papers

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It would seem that most of my coursework is now focusing on Critical Technology and the role of the Critical Technologist. During my EDU539 ...
Saturday, July 15, 2006

Critical Technologist as a Concept Map

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The role of a Critical Technologist is comprehensive when it comes to working within a developing country. To bring greater understanding to...
Thursday, July 13, 2006

Critical Technology as a Graphic

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Last month I created a graphic of what critical technology is based upon. To date this is the best I have; I do like the way it brings the t...
Monday, June 05, 2006

The first step up the ladder

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This video puts it in simple terms. Literacy and education should lead to a better life.
Friday, May 19, 2006

Clinical Economics (pdf)

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This article by Jeffrey Sachs brought tears to my eyes. It is providing a positive way forward with the issue of poverty. He includes what h...