INTERNET_RISING

What Makes Educational Technology Successful in the Developing World? What makes some technology so compelling and transformational that it thrives in a school setting and others languish? We've all heard stories of computers gathering dust in storage rooms while students and teachers everywhere have taken to photocopiers, calculators and, of course, cell phones. One of my most surprising moments upon entering a very basic primary school in rural Ayenhyah, Ghana - a room with no electricity or running water - was being told that the school had a no cell-phone policy. David Risher is the President and co-founder of Worldreader, whose mission is to bring books to all in the developing world. So what tips the technology scales? Simple Machines I've been thinking about simple machines a lot recently, while in Africa working in education. Technology helps us advance, but in education it has often been a source of false hope, peddled by people who promise to revolutionize learning. The Price Point of Literacy