Thursday, May 1, 2014

USA Africa Dialogue Series - How teachers in Africa are failed by mobile learning

You've no doubt heard of the mobile phone revolution sweeping Sub-Saharan Africa — perhaps mobile money transfer, or mHealth. The hope is that mobile technologies will transform lives by improving health, education, finance and women's position in society.

When was the last time you heard the voice of teachers from Sub-Saharan Africa extolling the virtues of mobile phones in education? My concern is that some people use the problems with education systems to justify excluding teachers from the design and development of mobile learning interventions. Teachers' voices are marginalised. And mobile operators association GSMA (to take just one example) characterises the teaching profession in a way that divorces it from progress and innovation.

Link:http://www.scidev.net/global/education/opinion/how-teachers-in-africa-are-failed-by-mobile-learning....

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Yona Fares Maro

Institut d'études de sécurité - SA


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