Generation YES Blog » Qatar http://blog.genyes.org Thoughts About Empowering Students with Technology Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:04:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 2006-2007 sylvia@genyes.org (Generation YES Blog) sylvia@genyes.org (Generation YES Blog) 1440 http://genyes.com/media/template/images/logo.gif Generation YES Blog http://blog.genyes.org 144 144 Thoughts About Empowering Students with Technology Generation YES Blog Generation YES Blog sylvia@genyes.org no no Off to Qatar http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2009/03/02/off-to-qatar/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=off-to-qatar http://blog.genyes.org/index.php/2009/03/02/off-to-qatar/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:11:33 +0000 Sylvia Martinez http://blog.genyes.com/?p=1184 This week I’m off on a new adventure – I’m an invited speaker at the ICT Conference 2009: Exploring ICT in Education in Doha, Qatar. I’ve never worked in this part of the world and I’m looking forward to meeting new people from Qatar and other Middle Eastern countries. They’ve asked me to talk about games in education and of course, student voice and student involvement in technology integration to support education.

Qatar seems like a fascinating place, I’ve read up a bit about it (Wikpedia has a nice article) and I’m looking forward to learning more. The first thing I learned is that I didn’t even know how to pronounce it – I assumed it was “kah-TAR”, and it’s actually more like a cross between “gutter” and “cutter” although I’m sure that’s not exactly right either.

The country has a focus on education as their path to the future; these days looking beyond their oil revenues seems like a really smart policy.

Sylvia

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