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ICT for Rural Education Development (ICT4RED) is a large-scale pilot that is testing the use of tablets in 26 deep rural schools in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. The aim is to develop a replicable framework that will enable evidence-based learning and replication on a national basis. This purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the evolution of an initial high-level ICT4RED...
Although touch computing has become an everyday occurrence, there has been little research into the subjective meanings people may assign to touch-focused IT artifacts. Following an interpretive case study with tablets, we examine blogposts, aiming to document user interpretations of the tablet, and to investigate the role of touch and that of cognitive ergonomics towards the formulation of subjective...
A fundamental change in the way education is being delivered is taking place. Using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education has shifted from being an “add-on” to becoming an essential component of the curriculum. Recently, initiatives aimed at reducing the digital divide, and lightening the load of students' backpacks, such as the “e-schoolbag” project launched in Shanghai and...
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