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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 edtech.
MyReadingTablet
Monash University shares its ACR GCD-funded MyReadingTablet innovation that leverages technology to enable readers to adjust the reading level of e-books.Competition Seeks to Develop Education App for Syrian Children Fleeing Conflict
International partnership launches $1.7 million EduApp4Syria prize to help Syrian children learn to read.Advancing Literacy Outcomes for Children with Disabilities in India: International Day of Persons with Disabilities
Benetech is proud to join the international community and our partners in observance of International Day of Persons with Disabilities to promote awareness and mobilize support for the inclusion of...Big Ideas Pitch Day 2015 – Creating Decodable Readers in Haitian Creole
Watch as the College of William & Mary pitches its innovation to employ local teachers to create and teach reading materials in Haitian Creole during Big Ideas Pitch Day.- Blog // September 8, 2015
ACR GCD, Intel gather experts to ideate way to use tech, youth to advance child reading outcomes
All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development (ACR GCD) and The Intel® Learn Program gathered global education experts on International Literacy Day 2015 for a workshop designed to. Creating Decodable Readers in Haitian Creole
ACR GCD-funded College of William & Mary shares its innovation to employ local teachers to create and teach reading materials that integrate Haiti's local languages and native culture.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.MobiLiteracy: Developing a Literacy Rich Home Environment in Kampala, Uganda Utilizing Mobile
Learn more about Planet Read's MobiLiteracy, a series of reading lessons available on basic phones for parents to use with young children in Uganda.TRAC project
A video about the Total Reading Approach for Children (TRAC) project in Cambodia by World Education.Rapid Response System Guidelines: Grade 1 Learning
World Education, Inc., and Kampuchean Action for Primary Education provide guidelines to support and measure the success of new reading textbooks developed by the Ministry of Education in Cambodia.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.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.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.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.All Children Reading: A Grand Challenge for Development competition seeks innovations to reach students in conflict and crisis zones
New prize to source ideas for innovative, technology-supported approaches for children to maintain access to basic education despite disruptions experienced during crisis or conflict.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.