In an essay, Clayton Christensen, a business prof at Harvard, says it's time for computers to change education in a radical way.
We see educational campaigns in the schools where when we push computers into a classroom we also push education on the responsibility in the use of the those computers, and we start seeing some of these criminals become prosecuted, and we start seeing the deterrent factor.
She has made closing the Middle East's "knowledge divide" -- the gap in knowledge that has grown as a result of people in richer countries having more access to computers, the Internet and education than those in poorer countries -- a top priority over the next few years in the hope that it will unlock the economic potential of the region's population.
"If girls take interest, and we find more girls want education in computers, we'll add more, " Arora said.
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There is a huge opportunity in the intersection between tablet computers and education: two young Italian entrepreneurs decided to explore it, launching Timbuktu, first News magazine for children on the iPad.
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Two decades after the first mainstream rollout of computers in schools we have learned many significant lessons about ICT in Education and their potential transforming impact on national education systems.
Then there is Sugata Mitra, recent winner of the 2013 TED Prize, whose serious doubting of modern education drove him to provide computers to kids struggling in slums to let them teach themselves.
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The promise of America says we will guarantee quality education for all children and not spend more money on metal detectors than computers in our schools.
The FPI found that the largest number of Indian-born small-business owners are in education, health and social services, followed by leisure and hospitality and computers and technology.
Many schools around the world are changing education programmes in schools to teach children to code, rather than simply to use, computers.
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"Now if you go into schools you are going to see more computers, " says Lawrence Cuban, an emeritus professor of education at Stanford University and an expert on innovations in teaching methods.
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