Teacher Reboot Camp

Guest post by Neal Chambers
Most technologies that are easily adapted and made widely popular are usually improvements of things that already exist. Mail replaced messanger services; the telegraph replaced mail; email replaced mail; Google Wave (might) replace email. It is the same with Twitter. Twitter replaced online chat which (kind of) replaced parties. [...]

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Part of the Cool Sites weekly series!
First off, I’d like to say how thrilled I am to be contributing to such an important and influential blog, which is a leader in cutting edge technology.  When trying to compile a list of my favorite Web 2.0 apps and sites for education, there were many factors I [...]

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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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