I am typing this out from Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi reflecting on the past week spent with the good people of UN Habitat, specifically those associated with the CityRAP …
Steer clear of the bridge: Bridge International Academies in Kenya, neoliberalism, and lazy shortcuts to meaningful education
Reblogging here from Panoply Digital. Returning to a favorite subject of mine, discussed here and here in past posts, is the ongoing Bridge Academy debacle throughout the continent, but particularly …
Bridge International vs. Kenyan Teachers; Ericsson Mobility Report, and Opera State of the Mobile Web in Africa
Reposting this here from Panoply Digital. As we approach the end of the year, we at Panoply Digital are working our projects and spending some time in research, reading, and …
pi-top, Ekobits, and Digital Citizens Fund: Running the Gamut in Coding & ICT Education
Reposting this here from Panoply Digital. Picking up where I left off in a previous blog post on learn to code initiatives, today we have a few more entries into …
Edtech & Neoliberalism in ICT4D: Blowback from Bridge Academies in Uganda and Liberia
Reposting here from Panoply Digital. It seems like we had just written about Bridge International the other day and the dangers of locking whole educational systems into for-profit industries and …
Baking in the Digital Divide into Mobile Learning: Korea, Tanzania, and Home-Grown Technology
Reposting here from Panoply Digital. A rather belated post for the week but I just returned from the UK where I defended my thesis at University College London on mobile …
Rhetoric, Neoliberalism, and Edtech in Liberia, Ethiopia, and South Africa
Reposting this here from Panoply Digital. The allure of educational technology in serving those who have remain underserved for so long is tough to resist. It drives us in the …