The ITeachNet Way
We are people-oriented and adjust technologies to people rather than the other way around. This is one of the real corner-stones of a sustainable learning technology program, and it is the first corner-stone of ITeachNet's sustainable learning technology offerings.
- Another corner-stone is a focus on the long-term. Unless we consider the effects of our decisions today, we cannot hope to lessen, let alone avoid, the undesirable ones. For this reason, we focus not on products, but rather on services. We offer subscriptions to Webbed services over time and courses in how to use them; our goal is to provide people-centered services that model for others the good effects of making a living by focusing on helping people; we are trying to make progress -- for everyone.
- The third corner-stone of our offerings is that they are Web-based; Web-based distribution ensures access for both the creators and also the users of information technologies. As such programs as the $100.00 laptop increase the potential for universal Internet and Web access, we are ready to provide content of high quality to all users interested in learning and education, whether through traditional classroom settings, extended traditional means (schools on-line) or through their own efforts to teach themselves.
- Access to Information is our final and most important cornerstone. Traditional and electronic books, language training and Linux, open source and cross-platform computer training are the tools of developing, using and fostering literacy. By supporting libraries, schools and businesses in their efforts to teach reading and writing, we support their efforts to teach people to teach themselves. We cannot control or predict what people will do with the power to read and write, but we can give them the opportunity to contribute to the creative struggle for progress.
Our specialization in open source and free software, Linux and teaching about and support for libraries and software in both English and local languages flows directly from these cornerstone philosophies.
