Global Learning Foundation

The Summer Computer Camp,Comp Camp, (www.kompkamp.net ) for kids from 9 to 15 years is a summer program for Public Primary school kids with the goal of providing an organized educational and recreational use of a summer holiday. It is a valuable way for kids to build upon technology skills taught in schools and the technology skills needed for the 21 century.

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Yet another eLearning company got funding... how many of them are out there?
Global eLearning - global - global? Have these people ever spent time in rural areas of developing countries?? My wild guess is NO.
THERE IS NO INTERNET access in those areas... and there will be NONE for a long time.

So it's not for those kids then... ok...
For children in well developed countries. With inexpensive widely availabale internet access. For our children.
Great!
Do we really think K-12 kids will be spending their own time doing eLearning? Some - maybe, the majority - probably not.

It was amazing to see over 700 young and not-so-young women gathered [oh yes, there were few males :)]at Google's HQ in this rainy day to talk about Women and Technolgy, Women and Success, Women and confidence...
The message was: just do it!

Featured Speakers:
Irene Au, Director of User Experience, Google
Rashmi Sinha, CEO, SlideShare
Leah Culver, Lead Developer & Co-Founder, Pownce
Sumaya Kazi, Entrepreneur & Social Media Manager, Sun Microsystems
Katherine Barr (moderator), Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures

Opening Speaker from Google:
Ellen Spertus, Research Scientist, Google

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=25825&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_S...

yet another article on ICT in Education.

From my personal experience:

Just read special Forbes report on education:

http://www.forbes.com/2008/01/23/solutions-education-chambers-oped-cx_sl...

What do you think - what is the role of technology in education?