- Title
- The development of ICT networks for South African schools: Two pilot studies in disadvantaged areas
- Creator
- Siebörger, Ingrid, Terzoli, Alfredo, Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- text
- Type
- article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/431018
- Identifier
- vital:72737
- Identifier
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09729-9_25
- Description
- Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are increasingly considered valuable tools in educa-tion, promoting the development of higher cognitive processes and allowing teachers and learners access to a plethora of information. This paper reports on two pilot studies conducted in South Africa in proto-typical previously disadvantaged schools and their surrounding communities. Each pilot study deployed a local loop network within impoverished communi-ties, connecting schools to one another and central services such as email and voice communications. The benefits of these networks were that teachers, learners and the local community had access to in-formation, and communication and collaboration channels, providing potential test beds for investigat-ing the use of computers as mind tools.
- Format
- 3 pages, pdf
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Learning to Live in the Knowledge Society: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Siebörger, I., Terzoli, A. and Hodgkinson-Williams, C., 2008. The development of ICT networks for South African schools: Two pilot studies in disadvantaged areas. In Learning to Live in the Knowledge Society: IFIP 20 th World Computer Congress, IFIP TC 3 ED-L2L Conference September 7–10, 2008, Milano, Italy (pp. 167-170). Springer US, Learning to Live in the Knowledge Society: IFIP 20th World Computer Congress volume 2008 number 1 167 170 2008 978-0-387-09729-9
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Hodgkinson-Williams, Cheryl (Prof)
Terzoli, Alfredo (Prof)
Sieborger, Ingrid (Dr)
RU Department of Computer Science
RU Department of Education
SDG 09. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
SDG 10. Reduced Inequalities
SDG 04. Quality Education
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