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No power or running water - but digital books galore
Newspaper | The Guardian
Date | 2.8.2016
Language | English
Country | UK
Topic Tags | childhood, digitized education, smartphone
Summary | Inside a library in Rwanda, you can see children with e-readers, smartphones, and digital books. John Kanyambo is 12 and likes digital books; children can learn a lot of new words with them. This is what Africa looks like today; parts of it welcome digital innovations, but other parts haven't had an agricultural revolution yet.
Image Description | Photographs of two African boys using a tablet, two people walking somewhere in Africa, and portrait of an African man.
Image Tags | male(s), tablet
C'est la rentrée à l'école numérisée
(It's the start of the digital school year)
Newspaper | Le Temps
Date | 30.8.2016
Language | French
Country | Switzerland
Topic Tags | childhood, digitized education, school, smartphone, youth
Summary | A school principal explains how digital devices can help children learn. He wants to progressively digitize 50% of the school material. Smartphones and laptops don't ruin the school system; we just need to know how to use them. At his private school, everyone has a an iPad where they can find their class material. Now, the school provides each child with an iPad, but soon everyone will bring their own device. Our digitized society has the advantage of tightening social relationships between people, which is something not everyone agrees with.
Image Description | Photograph of a child using a tablet.
Image Tags | chart, female(s), male(s), school, tablet
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