Teacher Reboot Camp

In Argentina, technology is not used in the classroom at schools while Language Schools are at the avant-garde as to technological tools.

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Part of the series: Investigating International Edtech Issues (UAE)
Disclaimer: This piece is based exclusively on my own experiences in teaching English in the UAE, I know that there are several institutions (albeit more likely in the private sector) that are much further ahead in the use of technology in education. It’s also obvious that there [...]

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Part of the series: Investigating International Edtech Issues (Croatia)
OUT OF THIS WORLD
All elementary and secondary schools in Croatia have free broadband Internet access via ADSL and are equipped with at least one computer lab. There is usually also one computer in all the schools’ staffrooms, libraries and administrators’ offices. In 2005, the Ministry of Education [...]

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Part of the series: Investigating International Edtech Issues (Australia)
Background
A very personal view of some of the issues we face here in Australia in integrating technology into education (ie in fitting widget A into socket B). Firstly, I am not a school teacher but a lecturer in Australia’s Vocational Education and Training (VET) sector. However, [...]

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Part of the series: Investigating International Edtech Issues (Turkey)
My title sounds weird, doesn’t it? But believe it or not, this is how I learned what a keyboard was! It was 1993. I was 15 years-old. Computer class was an elective course at my school and in the first computer lesson our teacher drew a keyboard [...]

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