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Press Review - Digital Education

Good morning ladies and gentlemen, welcome to my press review. I was reading an article the other day in the printed edition of Business Spotlight and it talks about the increasing use of electronic equipment in school. In my mind it is an exciting issue and maybe you will also be as interested in it as I am. I thought you might be interested, because technology is becoming more important nowadays.  Basically what it says is that school looks different in Kenya than in Austria. There is no teacher in the classroom and small groups of ten-year-old children are gathered round tablets, tapping and swiping between brain teasers and educational videos. The students in these classes are using eLimu, which is a local software platform that aims to optimize learning by turning Kenya’s school curriculum into colourful and easy-to-digest exercises. In Kenya are many companies, which try to bring education into the digital era by scanning textbooks, developing bite-sized c...

Statement Fairtrade

Hello everyone! We were reading two articles in school the other day, which were talking about advantages and disadvantages of Fairtrade. Harriet Lamb is a proponent for Fairtrade. Philip Booth is against Fairtrade. The named some good aspects of Fairtrade. I am going to tell you my opinion now. In my mind Fairtrade is great, because thereby small farmers and workers in developing countries get better prices. Still, I have to admit that it happens that there are forgeries of markings sometimes. Another good aspect is that there is no child labor allowed. In addition to that it protects more the environment. All in all better working conditions are ensured, for example no forced labor. In contrast to that Fairtrade product are more expensive and they are not available in all markets. Some say that Fairtrade benefits only a small number of farmers and penalising others. I agree on that, because it is not possible to help all farmers all over the world, but it doe...