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A project in South Africa to train teachers in a rural area to "teach with ICTs". Tablets were used. 21st Century skills training was modeled during the 10 training sessions which was spread out over 30 weeks. A tremedoes amount of learning took place. I participated in the sustainability modelling which included Total Cost of Ownership calculations. This showed that tablet replacement could be up to 50% of the yearly operations costs.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have recently gained a groundswell of interest, becoming a significant research area for many scholars around the globe. One of the reasons for this surge is that nature of ICT has greatly changed the face of education. For most European countries, the use of ICT, in education and training, has become a priority during the last decade; however, very few have achieved progress. Indeed, only a small percentage of schools, in a few countries, effectively used ICT to support and change the teaching and learning process in diverse subject areas. Others are still in the early phases of adopting ICT.

Scientix collects and promotes best practices in science teaching and learning in Europe, and organises trainings and workshops for Science teachers.

Zaption provides free interactive video tools and ready-to-use video lessons to engage learners. Our video platform is perfect for K-12, higher ed & training.

Common Sense Media improves the lives of kids and families by providing independent reviews, age ratings, & other information about all types of media.

Our class teachers use these resources with the tech coach (me!) very successfully as part of our digital citizenship curriculum. We also shared some of the ideas with parents at a recent training session.

Futurelab at NFER is (registered charity number 313392) is committed to developing creative and innovative approaches to education, teaching and learning. We achieve this through a mixture of research, workshops, CPD, training, courses, inset days, events, school development (through our enquiring schools programme), and resources across the UK and internationally.