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...