When a school closes, a large percentage of the student body may be sick, but a large percentage is not. A tool such as Wave enables the students who are well enough to collaborate together in an online environment.
Whenever I promote a new technology I always remind teachers that the fundamental aspects of effective instruction remain the same. Technology doesn't change the basics, it simply repackages them in a new and exciting way.
Another major problem is that the talented teachers are not motivated at all to go to the villages rather be in the big cities to enjoy the benefits that Big cities offer. With web 2.0 technologies we have a chance to solve these problems. I see a great future where for the first time in the history that we can provide education to the poorest people of those remote villages at a very low cost that is affordable
Etoys is . . .
an educational tool for teaching children powerful ideas in compelling ways
a media-rich authoring environment and visual programming system
a free software program that works on almost all personal computers
Great question to ask any teacher regardless of their content or subject matter. Common Core is going to push this hard, and I'm afraid many secondary teachers are going to be hard pressed to figure this out.
When technology in every sector is taking big leaps, why should banks hold on to excess of paperwork and innumerable visits of customers? Mobile banking has become a subject in each business school, such is the reach that banks now consider Mobile Banking apps as their USP.