These and other education investments leverage technology in ways that make learning easier, faster and more rewarding--from facilitating distance learning, to constructing computer labs, to providing cutting-edge equipment to innovative teachers around the world.

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But the lessons Maria is learning are about much more than gears, sensors and computer code.

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"I gave up sports so I could spend more of my spare time at the computer learning about programming, " he said in his testimony to the Senate Judicial Committee.

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The 2011 National Conference on Education has also taken this issue at hand and has called for the roll-out of computers to schools, making the use of ICTs in classrooms more flexible by deploying mobile computer labs and expanding the existing community learning centres and libraries in terms of lifelong learning and open and distance learning.

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We have many computer science teachers using our platform, because it makes learning to code more fun and engaging.

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By calculating the catalytic properties of materials on a computer, the group is learning what it is that makes other materials, such as copper zeolites, more effective under these conditions.

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