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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 in ACR GCD in the News.
Developing World EdTech
In many parts of the United States and other developed countries, technology is becoming embedded into classroom instruction.Changing Kenya’s education by phone
"I realised the burden of what teachers go through here when I was living in this rural village," says Toni Maraviglia, co-founder of Eneza Education, a mobile phone based education tool in Kenya.A Papal Education
In September, the UN and Pope Francis both called on the international community to fight poverty and preserve the environment. At the center of these efforts will be education.Breaking down silos at the intersection of meaning and money
Kevin Jones convened impact investors and social entrepreneurs at the first Social Capital Markets conference in 2008. Now he says the value of SOCAP is the way it encourages attendees to find...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.Outernet Will Deploy Its Satellite Data Solution To Conflict Zones In Ukraine
A Chicago satellite information service just won $20,000 to help broadcast education resources to people living around conflict zones in Ukraine.Bloom software wins Enabling Writers competition
SIL’s Bloom software has been chosen as the winner of the Enabling Writers competition, part of the All Children Reading initiative.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."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.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...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...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.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.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.This village school in Haiti helped propel a national movement to teach kids in Creole
Frandy Calixte is an 11-year-old boy who lives in a small village on the drought-prone island of Lagonav, Haiti. Sitting outside his house with his mother and teacher...10 Incredible tech innovations from 2014 that will benefit humanity
We may not have flying cars or teleportation devices yet, but we do have some incredible technologies that are helping to make the world a better place.- 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.
