Informative Reading: Gates Foundation: Teachers trump class size.

Gates Foundation: Teachers trump class size. Eschoolnews.com. Online May 2009. … After investing billions in U.S. education, the foundation's new CEO says better teachers, not smaller class sizes, are key. …the foundation must take a different direction with its education grants, and the best path is to support good, effective teachers. …

ICT Support for Learning: Google Translator Toolkit

Google Translator Toolkit. Tony Ruscoe. GoogleBlogoscoped. Online June 2009. ... new tool … to help translators organize their work and benefit from shared translations, glossaries and translation memories … A machine translation of the Google China Blog explains, "Google's mission is to organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. Translation of information, in our view is the key to access to information." …

ICT Support for Learning:Say Yes to GPS: The government (of Egypt) has lifted the ban on the popular navigation technology

Say Yes to GPS: The government (of Egypt) has lifted the ban on the popular navigation technology. Business Today Egypt. Online June 2009. In a surprise announcement last month, the Egyptian government removed its long-standing ban on the use and import of Global Positioning System (GPS). … The technology, which allows users to determine their latitude, longitude and altitude, had been banned for commercial use in Egypt since 2003. …
(Note from Ginny: Now teachers and students can learn more about geography by finding the coordinates of their schools, homes and communities in Google Earth, and we can locate our client schools on a map in Google Earth.)

Informative Reading: From Structuralists to Instrumentalists: Literature Review of Digital Literacy and Digital Divide

From Structuralists to Instrumentalists: Literature Review of Digital Literacy and Digital Divide. Aywe Kok, Digital Learning. Online May 2009. … to provide information about several ICT initiatives undertaken in education on a global basis in order to overcome the digital divide and summarise the findings of these initiatives.