UNESCO ICT in Education Awards Ceremony
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Enhancing UNESCO's efforts to achieve the Education for All and lifelong learning goals, the Innovative Practices in ICT in Education project was launched in 2007 to identify, document, share and multiply ICT in education innovations with the support of Japanese Funds-in-Trust (JFIT). One component of the project is the UNESCO ICT in Education Innovation Awards designed to recognize outstanding work by (i) teacher and teacher educators, (ii) educational planners and administrators, and (iii) non-formal educators.
The winners were invited to Bangkok to receive their prizes and certificates. UNESCO would like to thank Intel Electronics Ltd. for their kind contribution of three laptops as prizes for the winner in each category.
On stage to congratulate the winners and hand out the certificates were Mr. Susil Premajayantha, Honourable Minister of Education from Sri Lanka; Mr. Abdul Rahman Abu Haniffa, the Director of Government Policy Programs for Malaysia and ASEAN, of Intel and Mr. Sheldon Shaeffer, Director of UNESCO Bangkok.
Congratulations, once again to all the winners!
Thanks to Intel for the three laptops!
Speeches and powerpoint presentations for download:
- Welcome Speech by Director, UNESCO Bangkok (pdf, 20kb)
- Keynote Speech by Minister of Education, Sri Lanka (pdf, 40kb)
- Keynote Speech by Director, Government Policy Programs, Intel (pdf, 1mb)
- Fractured Fairy Tale by Sook-Fong Foo and Susan Wu, Singapore (pdf, 1.3mb)
- One Computer in Multigrade Classroom by Julito Aligaen, Philippines (pdf, 760kb)
- Learning the 3R’s through Discovery, Interaction and Participation of Children of Nomadic Tribes by M.V. Ananthakrishnan, India (pdf, 280kb)
See results of the competition here
Pictures of the Awards Ceremony
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