This new publication, supported by USAID and the mEducation Alliance, provides a comprehensive summary analysis and overview of 44 existing projects incorporating the use of mobile technologies (broadly defined) to accelerate reading, particularly in developing countries. Written by lead author, Daniel A. Wagner, UNESCO Chair in Learning and Literacy, and Director of the International Literacy […]

Almost a decade ago, delegates from over 175 countries gathered in Geneva for the first ‘World Summit on the Information Society’, a two-part conference (the second stage followed two years later in Tunis) sponsored by the United Nations meant to serve as a platform for global discussion about how new information and communication technologies were […]

This report focuses not only on the gaps facing Latin America in both education and technology, but especially on the interactions between the two. The central premise of the report is that skills and technology interact in important ways, and this relationship is a fundamental reason for the large observed differences in productivity and incomes […]

This handbook is the result of a multi-year effort, the first stage of which ‘Public Sentinel: News Media and Governance Reform’. That book explored key issues surrounding the media and governance, including: the ideal role of the media system in strengthening democratic governance, the conditions under which media systems fulfill their objectives, and the policy […]

The following article is based on the keynote lecture which Henry Jenkins (Provost’s Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California) presented a few years ago at the National Media Education Conference in Saint Louis. Jenkins is the principal investigator for Project New Media Literacies (NML), a group which originated […]

This article reflects on how technology is affecting children these days. It analyzes the effects social media and gadgets have on kids’ behavior and the risky exposure they face permanently. It also goes over the consequences and negative effects of the Internet on children’s lives, such as sedentary habits and a false sense of reality, […]