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            robots/robotics 53, 99–102, 150   UNESCO see United Nations
                                                Educational, Scientific and Cultural
            Simputer 131, 160                   Organization
            Singapore 70–1, 75, 76, 77, 78, 81, 88,  United Kingdom 66, 72, 73, 81, 92, 96,
              91, 92, 97–9                      111–12
            skills 4–5, 46, 49, 52, 58–60, 65, 75–7, 88,  United Nations 46, 47–8, 110, 147
              153, 159; twenty-first-century skills  United Nations Educational,
              57–60, 61, 76, 85, 148, 153, 155  Scientific and Cultural Organization
            South Korea 6, 89, 98, 99           47, 48, 50, 58, 61
            Spring, Joel 48, 52, 93, 102      United States 11, 67–8, 112
            sub-Saharan Africa 33, 64, 87, 91–2, 105,  Unwin, Tim 56, 91, 107,
              111–13, 119, 120, 150, 154        120, 122
            supranational organisations 24, 29, 40–1,  Uruguay 96, 135, 141, 144
              44, 49, 58, 61                  US Department of Education 59, 74

            technical fix 36, 105, 125         virtual schooling 74, 96–7, 111
            technological determinism 35–8, 41, 148
            technology, social shaping of 38–40, 86,  ‘War on terror’ see 9/11
              136, 149                        Warschauer, Mark 70, 98, 121, 141
            TIMSS 13, 87                      Washington Consensus 11, 107
            topography see geography (physical)  Western thought/values 33, 35, 45, 93–5,
            Turkey 49, 89, 91, 95               101, 102, 103, 122, 153–4
            Twenty-first-century skills see    World Bank 24, 32–4, 44–7, 49–50,
              under skills                      117, 118
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