Deep impact: a study of the use of hand‐held computers for teacher professional development in primary schools in the Global South1

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes * Corresponding author. Research Group on International Development in Teacher Education across Cultures and Societies (RITES), The Open University, UK. Email: fels-deep@open.ac.uk This paper originated as a report to Hewlett Packard (4 September, 2003). A version was also presented to the British Educational Research Association Conference, University of Edinburgh, 10–13 September 2003. Data in this section drawn from: The World in 2004, The Economist. Source: World Development Indicators database, last update April 2001. 2001Data for comparison: UK: population 60.5m; GDP per head $31,860; 366.2 computers per 1000 of population; 19,800,000 Internet users. Germany: population 82.5m; GDP per head $30,810; 434 computers per 1000 of population; 30,800,000 Internet users. Source: World…