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Soo0405
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Comparison of situation in different countries. Promoting technology in education: does it benefit students from rural areas?
April 30, 2009 - 09:49 PM
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Dear all,
Indeed, use of technology has been introduced to some rural areas of my country. This is something to be happy about.
Students from big cities generally take the occasional use of technology in school for granted.
Yet, we still have some indigenous people from Sabah and Sarawak who stuggle to attend school due to difficulty in transport, let alone using technology.
Thus, I feel it is time to review and revise the distribution of funds, so that students from all areas can benefit the most from it, and nobody should be left out.
I am curious to know what is the situation in your country. Shall we discuss and compare? =)
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Vaspol Ruamviboonsuk
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Re: Comparison of situation in different countries. Promoting technology in education: does it benefit students from rural areas?
April 30, 2009 - 10:43 PM
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In Thailand, there is a very big gap in education system between Bangkok, our capital, and other areas. Although rural areas have technology equipments, the problem is they couldn't use it in full function. The reason is because the teachers aren't used to the technologies which is different from teachers in Bangkok. So in my opinion, the government should train teachers more and have the same quality through out the country.
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Rejie
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Re: Comparison of situation in different countries. Promoting technology in education: does it benefit students from rural areas?
April 30, 2009 - 11:12 PM
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In the Philippines, socio-civic groups especially from the youth sector are reaching people from marginalized sectors and indigenous sectors to experience the advances of technology so far.
I could site sustainable computer literacy project in our university where university students from CCS (College of Computer Studies) invite our neighboring communities who have little exposure to computer technology to practice basic applications like MS Word, MS Powerpoint, MS Excel, to get educated via Internet, and to get advanced also with Photoshop training.
In my college, CED (College Education), we choose schools who have little exposure to CAI or Computer Assisted Instruction and ask for their lesson plans and create a computerized learning application or module. For me, I choose a public school who have no experience with CAI. I agree to my professors that today's generation are more visual and spatial learners.
If your talking about presenting the advances of technology to local communities. Last April 24th to April 26th we are able to implement a youth ecological camp where we taught local youth representatives in Mindoro province about ecology. Without the use of computer technology together with the transportable video projectors, knowledgeable guest speakers weren't able to present the relationship of environment to society especially with us human beings through audio visual presentations and animations.
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Meaghan
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Re: Comparison of situation in different countries. Promoting technology in education: does it benefit students from rural areas?
May 1, 2009 - 12:05 AM
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Unlike Vospol and Olok, the country I reside in does not have a large socioeconomic rift when contrasted in comparison.
I believe in countries where there are large populations of students residing in rural or impoverished areas, promoting technological advances in wealthy schools would severely disadvantage them.
However, this presents an interesting and complex paradox. Just how do we maintain the equity between the rich and the poor without intervening in the potential of outstanding students? Or, in simpler terms, how can we make sure a poor school receives fair attention and funding without making wealthier schools feel as if they are being shunned?
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shobana
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Re: Comparison of situation in different countries. Promoting technology in education: does it benefit students from rural areas?
May 1, 2009 - 12:41 AM
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Seeing that we are from the same country, I do agree that it is necessary to redistribute funds so that those in the rural areas get the same opportunities we do. But before that,the schools should be set up to accommodate the computers which will take some time. I do think that the government is on the right track, only time will tell if it is successful.
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franmarie
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Re: Comparison of situation in different countries. Promoting technology in education: does it benefit students from rural areas?
May 1, 2009 - 03:18 AM
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It is somehow the same situation here in the Philippines. There are areas which have socio-economic issues also that the use of technology for education advancement is not on their priority list.
Fortunately, the government is doing their best to address this issue by initiating collaborative projects from different non-governmental organizations (NGO), business establishments, influential individuals, and other concerned citizens, to make possible for these remote areas as benefactors to also have the same technological opportunity as to highly urbanized cities, and also to alleviate their economic problems.
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