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Google
& Yahoo incubator along with Telecom Argentina are testing
smartphones in rural and periurban schools in Argentina
By iProfessional
August 8, 2011
Seeds
of Empowerment built public–private strategic alliances with local
partners in the public sector, private sector, academia, and civil society to
develop technology applications that address the needs of schools in
developing countries.
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Mobile
technology for education
By Misiones Online
August 11, 2011
Telecom
and the School of Education at Stanford University implemented an
innovative research project based on the incorporation of mobile
devices for the benefit of disadvantaged communities for education and
local development. The pilot consisted of conducting several workshops
in rural and suburban schools of Misiones and Buenos Aires Province
using smartphones and tablets.
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Telecom
and the School of Education at Stanford University research project
implementation in Argentina
By Mercado
August 9, 2011
Telecom
Argentina and Seeds of Empowerment aim to harness the latest advances
in mobile technologies (Smartphones/Tablets) to "improve access to
education for marginalized populations, encourage critical and
analytical thinking, creativity, literacy and scientific attitude in
children and youth around the world."
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New
mobile technologies
for inclusive education
By Comunica RSE
August 8, 2011
It
is based on the integration of mobile devices for the benefit of
disadvantaged communities for education and local development. The
pilot consisted of conducting several workshops in rural and suburban
schools of Misiones and Buenos Aires Province, using smartphones and
tablets on an Android operating system in a variety of innovative teaching
dynamics.
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Technologies
for education
By Universia
August 11, 2011
Students
in upper grades of the medical career of the Barceló Foundation had the
opportunity to participate in a workshop on new technologies for higher
education. The activity was held under an agreement with Seeds of
Empowerment, a nonprofit arm of the School of Education at Stanford
University and Barceló University."
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Stanford doctoral student seeks peace
through technology
By Dennis Carter
June 18, 2010
 A university
project hopes to share experiences of Palestinian and Israeli children
using mobile devices.
The stories are harrowing,
but
Elizabeth Buckner hopes that sharing accounts of the tension between
Palestinians and Israelis with the help of mobile devices will offer
perspective to children from both sides and promote understanding in
the volatile region. Read More ...
Stanford educator promotes Mideast peace
through technology
By Adam Gorlick
May 27, 2010
PhD candidate Elizabeth Buckner is running a project to collect stories
from Palestinian and Israeli children and turn them into audio
slideshows that can be distributed in the region's schools on mobile
devices. The small contraptions also play video games aimed at boosting
a user's critical thinking skills. Read More ...
A Is for App: How Smartphones, Handheld Computers Sparked an
Educational Revolution
By: Anya Kamenetz
April 1, 2010
As smartphones and handheld computers move into classrooms worldwide,
we may be witnessing the start of an educational revolution. How
technology could unleash childhood creativity -- and transform the role
of the teacher. Read More ...
5
Social Capitalists Who Will Change the World in 2010
By: Anya Kamenetz
February 01, 2010
Ghate
himself is a high
school dropout with a passion for empowering young people like himself,
and using technology to transform the vast parts of India that are far
from the IT boomtowns. "We want to make SMS (short messaging service)
as a thread to integrate and interconnect local communities, Read More ...
Underserved children weave stories for
global contest
By Rajesh Rao
December 2009
 To bring together the digitally
divided technology-savvy and technology-challenged masses using the
potential of Short Messaging Service (SMS), Stanford University School
of Education and its offshoot, Seeds of Empowerment (India), conducted
a joint research across Maharashtra with technology partner SMSONE from
Pune. Read More ...
How
stories from sleepy Nandurbar reached Stanford?
By Devidas Deshpande
December 24, 2009
 A Stanford
University research project that invited the stories, has declared its
winners. Fergusson College student Aishwarya Patil will translate the
works for a global audience. The stories of the lives of children from
the dark corners of Maharashtra will not be lost in translation as they
hit the global market, thanks to a Class XI girl from Fergusson
College. Aishwarya Patil has been given the important task of
translating their stories into English. Read More ...
Story-telling contest to promote rural
education
By Rohan Swamy
December 2009
 To promote rural education
and bring about a more effective communicative platform to enable
children to take up education seriously, SMSONE and Seeds of
Empowerment, in association with XRI Global, an organisation set up by
the Stanford University, had organised a global story telling
competition for children in rural areas across the state. Read More ...
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