Please start by reading the two brief attached pieces.
1)ICT_School_Education_22June.pdf
2)Background_Note_EducationStrategy2020_ICT_Edu-1.pdf
As well as this chapter by Martin Carnoy:
carnoy globalization and ICT chapter from monkman.pdf
Next, please spend some time browsing around the following 2 web sites.
http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/
http://go.worldbank.org/H9QDNCTFJ0
You then need to do the following ( PLEASE BE CLEAR ON WHAT IS WHAT)
1)Respond the intial question: “What do you think are the most important roles for ICT in education in the developing world, and what are the most important risks it poses?”
2) Find a blog entry, article, link, publication, etc in one of the 2 web pages
(http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/ or http://go.worldbank.org/H9QDNCTFJ0) .
Start your own discussion topic/thread by providing a link to the piece, summarize the piece, and ask an interesting question related to it. Connect it to the readings.
3) MAKE A RESPOND TO THIS POST:
Bollywood Karaoke and Same Language Subtitling to Promote Literacy
http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/bollywood-karaoke (Links to an external site.)
In an attempt to promote literacy in India, an organization called PlanetRead developed “the idea of subtitling the lyrics of existing film songs (or music videos) on TV, in the ‘same’ language that they are sung in” (2014). In this way, it would allow for people young middle aged and old to have an opportunity to learn to read by seeing the words for songs they might have already knew the lyrics for and creating the mental matches for themselves. The pros for this idea in addition to increasing literacy were also that it was a cheap or rather cheaper option than trying to directly implement ICts in schools along with the fact that it could reach a larger group of people. Yet this would mean that the household would have to have a television, access to the specific television station and the time of course to engage in this learning process. Interestingly what was noted by the author of this blog was that this organization along with two others that received awards from the Library of Congress Literacy Awards (Links to an external site.) “largely work outside of traditional ‘educational’ institutions as part of their efforts to promote reading” (2014).
What are your opinions on these types of nontraditional learning such as the Bollywood Karaoke? Do you think this can be applied to other countries struggling with low literacy rate? In addition to this, as we think of policies like standardized testing, how well can this be tested if all of this is happening outside of the formal institutions?
