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2011
03.03

Computers in Schools – Wouldn’t Smartphones Be Better?

Category: Conferences / Tag: Conference, Ihub, Kenya, Nairobi, twitter / Add Comment

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What:Ihub Event
When:Friday, March 04, 9-11AM
Where:@ Ihub Upper Hill Estate, 4th Floor, Bishop Magua Centre, George Padmore Lane Nairobi

With all the hype around getting laptops, desktops, big computers of any kind into Kenyan schools, what about mobile phones? Might smart phones, with their easy of use and growing screen size be a better tool for students? Say one iPhone per child or one iPad per teenager?

Smartphones for schools could be more viable (cost, personable, and battery life) than computers. Yet computers have the form factor, training programs, and applications for education.

Join Wayan Vota, a noted expert on ICT and education to explore the role of mobile phones (and computers) in Kenyan education

Follow @Ihub on Twitter for more on this and other tech related news in Kenya.
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