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- Begin With Books
- Big Ideas@Berkeley 2014/15 Prize
- Big Ideas@Berkeley 2015/16 Prize
- Book Boost: Access for All Challenge
- EduApp4Syria Prize
- Enabling Writers Prize
- Grant Competition 2011
- Grant Competition 2014
- Leaders for Literacy
- No Lost Generation Summit Tech Prize
- Ready2Read Challenge
- Sign On For Literacy Prize
- Technology to Support Education in Crises & Conflict Prize
- Tracking & Tracing Books Prize
- UnrestrICTed Challenge
… results.
The power of translation
For most Americans, communication is an oral endeavor. We learn to speak and read through sound, to distinguish between hard and soft "k", to make the hiss of a double "s," or slight lisp of a "th."The Tech Awards 2014 laureate: Worldreader
Using e-readers and mobile phones, Worldreader empowers more than 250,000 children and adults around the world with e-books.Closed Captioning Gives Literacy a Boost
Sometimes I turn on my TV and the closed-captioning feature has been activated. I can’t find the button to turn it off, so I think: It won’t distract me.Boosting Literacy in Senegal
Sometimes I turn on my TV and the closed-captioning feature has been activated. I can’t find the button to turn it off, so I think: It won’t distract me.Youth Volunteers Can Contribute To Significant Reading Gains: Evidence From The HYVALL Project In Senegal
ACR GCD-funded Education Development Center shares results of the "Harnessing Youth Volunteers as Literacy Leaders" project in Senegal on children's reading fluency and comprehension.GraphoGame – a catalyst for multi-level promotion of literacy in diverse contexts
GraphoGame is originally a technology-based intervention method for supporting children with reading difficulties. It is now known that children who face problems in reading acquisition have...Facilitating Reading Acquisition in Multilingual Environments in India (FRAME-India) Final Report
ACR GCD-funded American Institutes for Research investigates how biliteracy skills are acquired in Kannada or Telugu and English languages in Southern India.The Potential of Technology to Level the Playing Field in Global Education
ACR GCD presents at the Association for Childhood Education International's "Breakthroughs in Education: Innovations in Equity, Access and Quality" virtual conference.Four students carry ‘Big Idea’ to Haiti
Sora Edwards-Thro has a history of performing volunteer work in Haiti. This summer, she and a trio of fellow William & Mary students are taking advantage of previously unavailable opportunities to...Rethink Relief: Beyond Boxes
ACR GCD-funded Stanford Learning, Design and Technology program shares their innovation to reuse packaging materials to increase access to learning in crisis and conflict situations.Big idea boosts children’s reading
A new technology aimed at addressing the reading needs of children in marginalised areas, has landed Monash second place in the Big Ideas@Berkeley contest.Germy: Sample Supplemental Template App
ACR GCD-funded Dimagi's open-source mobile learning app that guides children through lessons and quizzes about germs and the importance of handwashing.Getting millions to learn: The impact of Sesame Street around the world
Sesame Workshop’s projects occupy the unique intersection of early childhood education and media. What had started as an educational television program more than 40 years ago...eGranary Digital Library
ACR GCD-funded WiderNet Project's digital library providing content to individuals and organizations that lack adequate Internet access.USAID Grant Helps Create Marathi Books for Blind Kids
Palo Alto, Calif.,-based Benetech received a grant Feb. 5 by USAID to create “human-narrated audio” Marathi language books for blind children in Pune, India.Becoming Mrs. Van Allen
Christie Vilsack, senior advisor for international education at USAID, takes the TEDxFoggyBottom stage to explain how we can all help make a difference to improve education around the world.Benetech Wins All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development Grant to Improve Literacy for Primary School Students with Disabilities in India
We are delighted to share that USAID, World Vision, and the Australian Government awarded Benetech a 2015 grant to improve literacy for primary school students who are blind in India.GraphoGame™ Demo
An evidence-based learning game that helps children learn basic letters and sounds.SMS Brings Local Tales To Zambian School Children
A mobile reading project that will bring reading to Zambian children who often have no access to books at home is one of 14 winners of a literacy innovation competition.Ressi – an Arabic literacy app for Syrian refugee children
Ressi is a smartphone application that can build foundational literacy skills in Arabic and improve psychosocial well-being for Syrian children who are out of school or struggling in school.
