Science and mathematics gain a new online voice

MIT offers innovative K-12 curriculum

Highlights for High School, a Massachusetts Institue of Technology website, offers free K-12-tailored course materials for use by teachers and students. While many universities have set up free, online video, audio, and print course materials in recent years, the MIT high school site is unusual both in terms of the volume of information available and its orientation to a K-12 audience. The online site is an extension of MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative. Details from Education Week.


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Bridging the digital divide in developing nations

Technology meets poverty and lack of infrastructure


The digital divide between rich and poor countries is narrowing as mobile phones and Internet use become more available, but the developing world still lags far behind, a United Nations report said on Wednesday.

The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said mobile phone subscribers have almost tripled in developing countries over the last five years, and now make up some 58 percent of mobile subscribers worldwide.

UNCTAD said the revolution in information and communication technology was spreading to the developing world but said more had to be done to make sure poorer countries reaped its opportunities in growth and development.

However, technological progress could come at a price, as the Guardian reports.


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