My colleagues and I often shake our heads over headlines touting the next technology that is going to lead the education revolution. It simply isn’t historically accurate. Technology doesn’t change education; instead, education changes technology, adapting it to current classroom practices.<\/p>\n
But, in today’s google alert related to mobile technology, a headline<\/a> caught my attention precisely because it goes against history. It seems that, in an effort to increase literacy among women, Afghanistan is harnessing mobile technology:<\/p>\n Afghanistan has launched a new literacy programme that enables Afghan women deprived of a basic education during decades of war to learn to read and write using a mobile phone.<\/p>\n In a country where women were forbidden from going to school and the literacy rate for women is about 13%, mobile technology may just foster a revolution in learning. Software developed by an Afghani company<\/a> and distributed on free phones is making this revolution possible.<\/p>\n Maybe we have finally seen an example of technology sparking a revolution…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My colleagues and I often shake our heads over headlines touting the next technology that is going to lead the education revolution. It simply isn’t historically accurate. Technology doesn’t change education; instead, education changes technology, adapting it to current classroom practices. But, in today’s google alert related to mobile technology, a headline caught my attention … Continue reading From the News: Technology Leads a Literacy Revolution<\/span>