Sunday, December 9, 2012

Education in Africa going digital

Elementary school children in Ethiopia with their inexpensive OPLC laptops. PHOTO/Petterik Wiggers/PANOS

Schools in Africa are going digital—with encouraging results.

Teaching at the Amaf school in Nairobi, Kenya used to be conducted with a blackboard and a handful of tattered textbooks. Now children in groups of five take turns to swipe the touch screen of the devices, which are loaded with a multimedia version of Kenya’s syllabus.

The tablets the school are an exception; they

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