… results in Grant Competition 2014.
Tech in Translation: Helping Deaf Children to Learn
Parents wonder, "Doesn't my child have the right to a full education? Many deaf people [here] are illiterate. The country is losing a wonderful resource," says Dr. Abdelhadi Soudi.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."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...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...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.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.All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development Announces Winners of Literacy Innovations Competition
Fourteen winning innovations represent the most promising, creative and impactful solutions in literacy and were chosen from a competitive process that elicited 213 proposals from 50 countries.Makhalidwe Athu: A mobile storytelling innovation for early-grade reading in Zambia
ACR GCD-funded innovator Creative Associates provides a brief overview of its Makhalidwe Athu (Our Way of Staying) early grade reading project in rural Zambia.Makhalidwe Athu: Creative’s mStories Model
ACR GCD-funded innovator Creative Associates shares how it developed its innovative approach for creating mobile stories to address literacy challenges in rural Zambia.Mobile reading project brings local tales home
ACR GCD-funded innovator Creative Associates shares more about its 18-month Makhalidwe Athu project to improve the reading skills of more than 1,200 students in Zambia's eastern province.- ACR GCD in the News // The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine // October 1, 2014
Tools and resources to improve deaf educational access to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
This research project will address the challenging research problem of meeting the educational needs of the deaf, who are underserved in education in general, and in STEM literacy, in particular. Kampuchean Action for Primary Education / Ul Run
ACR GCD-funded innovator Kampuchean Action for Primary Education shares their innovation to create local language e-books with interactive features for children in Cambodia.Agora Center, the University of Jyväskylä / Emma Ojanen
ACR GCD-funded innovator Agora Center shares their innovation to use a mobile reading game to improve children's reading skills and certify Zambia teachers in local language literacy instruction.Réseau d’Acteurs pour le Renouveau de l’Education / Youseff Haidara
ACR GCD-funded innovator Réseau d’Acteurs pour le Renouveau de l’Education shares their innovation to use edtech to help teachers in Mali view, learn, and apply new literacy instruction techniqueOeuvre Malienne d’aide à l’Enfance du Sahel / Boureima Toure
ACR GCD-funded innovator Oeuvre Malienne dÕaide lÕEnfance du Sahel shares their innovation to provide families in Mali access to print and digital books through mobile devices and local librariesACR GCD and Beyond Access Announce Partnership
ACR GCD announces a partnership with the Beyond Access initiative, a consortium of 11 international organizations funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.Learning through “serious games”
What are serious games and can they make a difference to educational outcomes? Can game-based learning be used to teach every subject?The Challenge and Potential of Ed Tech
ACR GCD grantee Little Thinking Minds in Jordan spotlights the potential for EdTech to transform child literacy in the MENA region.
