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started with Jeremy Greenfield's (@JDGsaid) article in #DBW: When Growth in Children’s E-Books Hits the Poverty Line
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Most children in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya fail literacy and numeracy tests

Most children in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya fail literacy and numeracy tests | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it

via @DW_GMF - Most children in #Tanzania, #Uganda and #Kenya fail #literacy and numeracy tests guardian.co.uk/global-develop… #education @efareport 

 

Report by east African group Uwezo finds that although access to education has expanded, the quality of learning has stagnated... 

 

(...) Uwezo urged politicians, NGOs and educators not to throw more resources at education "when in fact the key problem may be the choice of interventions rather than the lack of resources". The report called for a move away from "inputs", such as classrooms, the number of qualified teachers or enrolled pupils, to outcomes: "not how many desks are there but can Juma read".

Noting that little has changed in classroom teaching in decades, Uwezo said: "It may be worthwhile to consciously create a culture and room for 'disruptive' ideas and technologies, and test whether innovations and different approaches, such as cash on delivery and others, work better

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What is Digital Literacy Anyway? - TeachersWithApps.com

What is Digital Literacy Anyway? - TeachersWithApps.com | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it

What does it mean to be digitally literate? How can we determine what is necessary for someone to become digitally literate? The answer may be changing constantly, as new devices, tools and services appear and are rapidly adopted by individuals everywhere. 

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Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say

Technology Is Changing How Students Learn, Teachers Say | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it
There is a widespread belief among teachers that digital technology is hampering students’ attention spans and ability to persevere, according to two surveys.

 

(...) The surveys include some findings that appear contradictory. In the Common Sense report, for instance, some teachers said that even as they saw attention spans wane, students were improving in subjects like math, science and reading.

But researchers said the conflicting views could be the result of subjectivity and bias. For example, teachers may perceive themselves facing both a more difficult challenge but also believe that they are overcoming the challenge through effective teaching.

Pew said its research gave a “complex and at times contradictory” picture of teachers’ view of technology’s impact.

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In a new report “Kids Online: Digital Natives in Digital Homes," eMarketer estimates that 45% of kids under the age of 12 will be internet users this year, with digital activity more prevalent among older children than younger ones.

 

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Study: Teenagers without web access are left 'educationally disadvantaged' (Wired UK)

Study: Teenagers without web access are left 'educationally disadvantaged' (Wired UK) | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it
Teenagers that use the internet are better off than those who don't, according to a new study from Oxford University's department of education
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How tablets are invading the classroom | Digital Trends

How tablets are invading the classroom | Digital Trends | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it
Tablets are launching a full scale assault on education. We take a look at the adoption of tablets in schools and which tablet will reign supreme in the evolving world of education.

 

Apple CEO Tim Cook said “Education tends to be a conservative institution, but we’re not seeing that at all on the iPad.” He went on to explain that “The adoption of the iPad in education is something I’ve never seen in any technology.”

 

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En Californie, l'écriture cursive appartient au passé

En Californie, l'écriture cursive appartient au passé | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it
De moins en moins d'élèves américains maîtrisent la calligraphie classique, abandonnée au profit des claviers d'ordinateur et des lettres d'imprimerie.

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Les jeunes et les inégalités numériques, avec Lecture Jeune

Les jeunes et les inégalités numériques, avec Lecture Jeune | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it
Les actes du colloque et la revue à découvrir...

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La fracture est-elle dans l'utilisation pédagogique du numérique ? - Educavox

La fracture est-elle dans l'utilisation pédagogique du numérique ? - Educavox | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it
Crédit photo : Ludovia Pascale LUCIANI BOYER est élue locale, maire-adjoint d'une grande ville du Val de Marne, Présidente de la commission (...)...
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Philomag - Dossier - Pourquoi nous n'apprendrons plus comme avant

Philomag - Dossier - Pourquoi nous n'apprendrons plus comme avant | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it

Pourquoi nous n'apprendrons plus comme avant : dossier publié par Philomag.com, le site de Philosophie Magazine, premier magazine de philosophie en langue française.

 

La révolution numérique n'est plus un slogan. Chaque jour, nous naviguons un peu plus, délaissons l'imprimé pour l'écran, stockons nos connaissances, vérifions sur Internet ce que nous dit un interlocuteur… ou un enseignant. Comment apprendre, lire, nous souvenir, transmettre, emportés par ce flux que nous maîtrisons encore mal ? Le danger de perdre la concentration et la mémoire, de négliger l'étude, de ne plus pouvoir enseigner, est réel. Mais le basculement de Gutenberg à Google porte aussi en lui l'espoir d'un esprit enfin libre – puisque des machines s'occupent de l'intendance – de se consacrer à l'essentiel : la pensée créatrice. Comme en son temps l'imprimerie, il n'est pas impossible qu'Internet fasse éclore un nouvel humanisme.

 

9 articles composent ce dossier :

Arme de distraction massive
Pourquoi nous n'apprendrons plus comme avant
De la tablette d'argile à la tablette tactile
Pourquoi nous ne lisons plus comme avant
Pourquoi nous n'écrivons plus comme avant
Pourquoi nous ne mémorisons plus comme avant
Le savoir est un jeu… vidéo
Pourquoi nous n'étudions plus comme avant
Moteurs de recherche

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L’école en ligne remplace les institutions traditionnelles aux US

L’école en ligne remplace les institutions traditionnelles aux US | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it
Julia Ratten a huit ans et son frère Jack de sept ans n’iront pas dans leur école locale ce mois-ci. Après que le district..

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iPad, internet et nouvelles technologies à l'école : essentiel mais pas prioritaire

iPad, internet et nouvelles technologies à l'école : essentiel mais pas prioritaire | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it

(...) On voit aussi des élèves demander à aller sur un ordinateur pour faire un exposé sur l’histoire égyptienne oubliant que les livres et les encyclopédies suffiraient à leur "soif de curiosité".

 

Et si les guillemets s’imposent, c’est justement parce que la recherche s’assèche progressivement : l’élève devient un consumériste qui doit avoir un résultat, immédiatement et sans effort. Aujourd’hui, quand un élève ne connaît pas le sens d’un mot, il demande à l’enseignant de le renseigner. Ou alors il demande à aller sur l’ordinateur. Et si un impertinent ose lui demander d’aller consulter un dictionnaire, il préfère battre en retraite. Le paroxysme a été atteint avec l’émergence de Wikipédia, les enseignants piégeant les élèves, et vice versa.

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The future of education in Africa is mobile - BBC.com

The future of education in Africa is mobile - BBC.com | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it
United Nation’s mobile learning specialist Steve Vosloo argues phones could be the future of education on the continent.

 

(...) While education struggles to cope, mobile communication has grown exponentially. Africa is today the fastest growing and second largest mobile phone market in the world (... with) over 620 million mobile subscriptions

 

(...) These connections offer an opportunity for education. Already, we are starting to see the beginnings of change. An increasing number of initiatives – some large-scale, some small – are using mobile technologies to distribute educational materials, support reading, and enable peer-to-peer learning and remote tutoring through social networking services.

 

(...) If mobile learning is to have a real impact, we need to also rethink what we mean by education, schooling and what skills it delivers

(...) In addition to education basics such as literacy and numeracy, the reports says, there will be a need for digital and information literacy, as well as critical thinking and online communication skills. With the guidance of teachers, mobiles provide a medium for developing these skills for millions of Africans who go online ‘mobile first’ or even ‘mobile-only’. 

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Most children in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya fail literacy and numeracy tests

Most children in Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya fail literacy and numeracy tests | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it

via @DW_GMF - Most children in #Tanzania, #Uganda and #Kenya fail #literacy and numeracy tests guardian.co.uk/global-develop… #education @efareport 

 

Report by east African group Uwezo finds that although access to education has expanded, the quality of learning has stagnated... 

 

(...) Uwezo urged politicians, NGOs and educators not to throw more resources at education "when in fact the key problem may be the choice of interventions rather than the lack of resources". The report called for a move away from "inputs", such as classrooms, the number of qualified teachers or enrolled pupils, to outcomes: "not how many desks are there but can Juma read".

Noting that little has changed in classroom teaching in decades, Uwezo said: "It may be worthwhile to consciously create a culture and room for 'disruptive' ideas and technologies, and test whether innovations and different approaches, such as cash on delivery and others, work better

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LUDOVIA TV: Lecture sur écran, lecture numérique : quels enjeux, quels apprentissages ?

LUDOVIA TV: Lecture sur écran, lecture numérique : quels enjeux, quels apprentissages ? | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it

Rendez-vous Mercredi 27 mars, Amphithéâtre du lycée Montaigne, 17 rue Auguste Comte à Paris, de 14 h à 16 h 30 pour en discuter autour de personnalités.

Lecture et technologies numériques : aspects cognitifs et pédagogiques

Jean-François Rouet, directeur de recherche au CNRS, «Centre de Recherches sur la Cognition et l'Apprentissage », Université de Poitiers
Sujets de la réflexion : -    les spécificités, au plan cognitif, de la lecture de documents multiples sur support numérique -    les défis que représentent pour l'élève de 9 à 15 ans le fait de rechercher, évaluer,
comprendre et intégrer des informations à partir d'Internet -    les pistes pédagogiques intéressantes à exploiter pour développer une véritable maîtrise de la lecture documentaire chez les enfants, les adolescents et les jeunes adultes.
Échanges avec la salle et présentation de ressources 

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The Web-Deprived Study at McDonald's

The Web-Deprived Study at McDonald's | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it
Cheap smartphones and tablets have put Web-ready technology into more hands than ever. But the price of Internet connectivity hasn't come down nearly as quickly.
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Notre cerveau à l’heure des nouvelles lectures

Notre cerveau à l’heure des nouvelles lectures | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it
Notre cerveau à l’heure des nouvelles lectures
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"How can we create the conditions for new readers to develop a bi-literate brain and to know when to skim and when to dive deeply" - Maryanne Wolf preez on MIT experimentation with Ethiopian children

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"How can we create the conditions for new readers to develop a bi-literate brain and to know when to skim and when to dive deeply" - Maryanne Wolf preez on MIT experimentation with Ethiopian children

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Pioneering Literacy in the Digital Wild West | NewAmerica.net

Pioneering Literacy in the Digital Wild West | NewAmerica.net | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it
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Our report, Pioneering Literacy in the Digital Wild West: Empowering Parents and Educators, shows that while many digital products claim to teach reading, the app marketplace currently puts a heavy emphasis on teaching letters, sounds and phonics. A snapshot of the iTunes App Store's most popular paid literacy apps showed that 45 percent targeted letters and sounds and half targeted phonics, but only 5 percent targeted vocabulary. And none of the iTunes paid apps in the scan focused on comprehension, grammar and the ability to understand and tell stories.

 

“Technology changes so quickly that browsing the app store can feel like a digital version of entering the Wild West,” the report notes. “Parents and educators face a fast-growing array of products purporting to help their children learn to read but receive little information on how or if these products live up to their claims.”

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France : Les enfants aiment tout de même lire - étude IPSOS - @actualitte

France : Les enfants aiment tout de même lire - étude IPSOS - @actualitte | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it
Et certains, même, adorent !...

 

Le secteur jeunesse avec le vent en poupe

En France, 40 % des jeunes aiment lire, et 38 % adorent ça. Ils seraient même 57 % à choisir eux-mêmes les ouvrages qu'ils souhaitent découvrir. Et toujours avec des filles qui sont plus «matures» que les garçons sur la question.

 

Pour Chrisitine Baker, directrice éditoriale chez Gallimard Jeunesse : « Cette tendance se recoupe avec des études réalisées dans d'autres pays du monde. Nous, éditeurs français, ne baissons pas les bras, c'est même notre grand défi que de capter les garçons et leur démontrer que la lecture peut être aussi sexy qu'un jeu vidéo… »

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Hispanic-Latino Families & Digital Technologies Forum « National Center for Family Literacy

Hispanic-Latino Families & Digital Technologies Forum « National Center for Family Literacy | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it

VIDEO: Welcome from Sharon Darling of NCFL and Monica Lozano of impreMedia on Transforming Latino communities through digital literacy

 

 

Panel 1: Socio-cultural context: Hispanic-Latino families and the challenges they face

 

Panel 2: Promising practices - Issues involving Hispanic-Latino families, technology, and education

 

Panel 3: Emerging research on Hispanic-Latino families and digital media

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On the periphery? A new report on the young and offline - Information & Advice Blog

Another fascinating read from the Oxford Internet Institute is On the periphery? Understanding low and discontinued internet use amongst young people in Britain and yes, the young and offline do exist. National surveys have shown that around 10% of young people (17-23) define themselves as lapsed users.

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Conférence vidéo «Natif du numérique» par Marc Prensky sur TFO > Produits | Formation et culture numérique - Thot Cursus

Conférence vidéo «Natif du numérique» par Marc Prensky sur TFO > Produits | Formation et culture numérique - Thot Cursus | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it
Prensky encourage les professeurs à connaître et à utiliser les passions individuelles des élèves et à s'en servir comme moteur d'inspiration, ainsi que la participation des élèves dans la conception de leur propre éducation.

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How to teach ... the internet

How to teach ... the internet | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it
The shakeup in ICT teaching means the old programmes of study no longer apply and schools can deliver the kind of ICT provision they wish to until September 2014, when new programmes will come into force as a national standard.

The Guardian Teacher Network has resources, lesson ideas and cutting-edge schemes of work to help teach the subject. Look out for the special focus on technology in schools all this week.

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Ebates' Back to School Survey

Ebates 2012 Back to School Survey reveals that kids want tablets, smartphones or laptops while parents think they want new clothes.

 

source: national survey by Harris Interactive

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Why Johnny Can't Program - HuffingtonPost.com (2010)

Why Johnny Can't Program - HuffingtonPost.com (2010) | Digital divide and children | Scoop.it

Ask any kid what Facebook is for and he'll tell you it's there to help him make friends. What else could he think?

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European Commission - EUROPA - European Commission - Directorate-General for Education and Culture

Consultation on "Opening up Education – a proposal for a European Initiative to enhance education and skills development through new technologies"...

 

Period of consultation
From 13 August 2012 to 13 November 2012

 

The objective of the consultation is to explore the perceived need - mainly but not exclusively among education and training stakeholders – for EU action to promote the use of Open Educational Resources (OER) and of ICT in education.

 

We welcome contributions from citizens, organisations and public authorities

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