Big Educational Laptop and Tablet Projects (Mike Trucano)
“Mike Trucano is the World Bank’s Senior ICT and Education Policy Specialist, serving as the World Bank’s focal point within theeducation sector on issues at the intersection of technology use and education. He leads the World Bank’s related analytical work under its flagship Systems Approach for Better Education Resultsinitiative as it relates to information and communication technologies. At a working level, Mike provides advice and support to education projects around the world supported by the World Bank seeking to utilize ICTs in the education sector in various ways.”
This post appeared July 31, 2013
Recent headlines from places as diverse as Kenya (“6,000 primary schools picked for free laptop project“) and California (“Los Angeles plans to give 640,000 students free iPads“) are just two announcements among many which highlight the increasing speed and scale by which portable computing devices (laptops, tablets) are being rolled out in school systems all over the world. Based on costs alone — and the costs can be very large! — such headlines suggest that discussions of technology use in schools are starting to become much more