Ramos-Horta wants Magalhães computers in East Timor

According to the online edition of the SOL newspaper, the President of East Timor, José Ramos-Horta, says that JP Sá Couto "can give a big boost to the dream of computerizing Timor, giving each child and young Timorese a [Magalhães] computer". On an invitation from Ramos-Horta, the manager of the factory that produces Magalhães computers, João Paulo Sá Couto, visited the Asian country to "explore ideas of true collaboration," between the parts, explained Read more [...]
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JP Sá Couto wins award for innovation in school education

The company that produces Magalhães computers, JP Sá Couto, was awarded, last Wednesday, in the 2012 edition of Learning Without Frontiers Awards (LWF) in London, in the category "Innovation in Teaching Preschool and Primary", announces the company on the Facebook page. JP Sá Couto states that winning the award is a "further evidence of international recognition of [the company's performance] in the context of technological innovation of education systems." Source: Read more [...]
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Research team meets with consultants

The team's research project entitled "Navigating with Magalhães", funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT), met last Thursday, January 19th, with Evelyne Bevort, from the Centre de Liaison de l'Enseignement et d'Information des Medium (CLEMI) and Manuel Pinto, from the Communication and Society Research Centre (CECS) of University of Minho. At the meeting, the intervention of consultants was a milestone in the development of the research by allowing Read more [...]
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Magalhães computers on the way to Panama

JP Sá Couto announces the sale of 93 thousand Magalhães computers to Panama to "overhaulthe the educational system" of that country, says in the company's website. With Panama joining the list of countries such as Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico and Uruguay, JP Sá Couto reinforces the company's strategy in exporting computers to the countries of Latin America. In total, JP Sá Couto states that the company has distributed 3 million Magalhães around the world, Read more [...]
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Media education highlighted in the University of Minho

Celebrating 30 years of Grünwald Declaration, the Institute of Social Sciences from the University of Minho will host this Friday, Jan. 20th, the seminar "Media education as a way of critically reading the world" and the launching of the national operation "A day with the Media", an initiative that will take place in Portugal on May 3rd, 2012. The seminar, free entry, counts with the presence of the researchers Evelyne Bevort from the Centre deLiaison de l'Enseignement et d'Information des Medium (CLEM) Read more [...]
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