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  • 2010 HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition at mLearning Africa on 2009-12-30
    • Aligned with National Lab Day as part of the White House’s Educate to Innovate Initiative, the 21st Century Learning Lab Designer awards  will range from $30,000-$200,000. Awards will be made for learning environments and digital media-based experiences that allow young people to grapple with social challenges through activities based on the social nature, contexts, and ideas of science, technology, engineering and math.
  • YouTube - UNICEF: "Africa Water Week" celebrated in Johannesburg on 2009-12-25
  • The open secret behind the Cherrypal Africa, or, a brand is a promise, or, understatement by design. | GreenOpenFair on 2009-12-23
    • We know how to build inexpensive laptops to get access to the Internet, however, the problem in consumer electronics is that high demand for particular components drives prices up. Success is kind of counterproductive to keep prices low. That’s why we procure components for the Cherrypal Africa in a different way, we buy access inventory, overcapacity, out-of-fashion shells, shells with minor cosmetic flaws, discounted limited batches, and other high quality though discounted components and systems, package them up and sell them under the Cherrypal Africa brand. Bear with me. What this means is that 5 randomly selected people ordering a Cherrypal Africa on any given day theoretically might get 5 different systems, with different configurations. However, their “Africas” would have one particular thing in common, you can browse the Internet, actually pretty fast.
    • We know how to build inexpensive laptops to get access to the Internet, however, the problem in consumer electronics is that high demand for particular components drives prices up. Success is kind of counterproductive to keep prices low. That’s why we procure components for the Cherrypal Africa in a different way, we buy access inventory, overcapacity, out-of-fashion shells, shells with minor cosmetic flaws, discounted limited batches, and other high quality though discounted components and systems, package them up and sell them under the Cherrypal Africa brand. Bear with me. What this means is that 5 randomly selected people ordering a Cherrypal Africa on any given day theoretically might get 5 different systems, with different configurations. However, their “Africas” would have one particular thing in common, you can browse the Internet, actually pretty fast.
  • How Cheap Computers Can Provide an Invaluable Education | GreenOpenFair on 2009-12-23
    • Our goal at Cherrypal is to help educate children all around the world so that the digital divide is no longer a divide but a global community of knowledge that everyone has access to.
  • How do you evaluate a plan like Ceibal? | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education on 2009-12-19
    • n many ways, Ceibal can, and perhaps should, be seen not so much as an education project, but as a larger societal transformation project (of the sort often associated with e-government initiatives), with the education system as the primary and initial dissemination vector.
    • Under Plan Ceibal (earlier blog post here), Uruguay is the first country in the world to ensure that all primary school students (or at least those in public schools) have their own personal laptop.  For free.  (The program is being extended to high schools, and, under a different financial scheme, to private schools as well).  Ceibal is about more than just 'free laptops for kids', however.  There is a complementary educational television channel. Schools serve as centers for free community wi-fi, and free connectivity has been introduced in hundreds of municipal centers around the country as well.  There are free local training programs for parents and community members on how to use the equipment.  Visiting Uruguay last week, I was struck by how many references there were to 'one laptop per teacher' (and not just 'one laptop per child', which has been the rallying cry for a larger international initiative and movement). 
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  • Literacy Bridge on 2009-12-19
    • The Talking Book is a simple, durable and portable audio computer, designed to be sold for less than $10.
      • With
        this device, users play and record dozens of hours of messages, copy
        recordings between devices, and use interactive audio applications such
        as multiple-choice quizzes and audio hyperlinks. In remote regions, the
        Talking Book is creating change in the following ways:
        • In schools, students read along with audio books,
          engage in practice tests, and listen to embedded vocabulary definitions
          -- enhancing their literacy skills, reading confidence, and interest in
          school.
        • In villages, users listen to agriculture and health
          guidance
          created by local experts and record their own messages to document
          personal expertise. Because users can copy recordings between devices,
          they are able to share knowledge with peers. By applying the newly
          acquired knowledge,
          users improve their lives—achieving greater crop yields and improving
          the health of their families.
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  • Literacy Bridge on 2009-12-19

    • The Talking Book is a low cost audio computer that shares knowledge and improves literacy. 



      It is helping impoverished rural families learn to prevent disease and improve their crops.



      In overcrowded classrooms, children use it to learn from interactive literacy lessons.

  • An international digital library for children | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education on 2009-12-19
    • At the heart of Bederson's wide-ranging talk (and indeed at the heart of the ICDL itself) is a belief in the value and importance of child-centered design. Notably (and rather famously, in some quarters) the ICDL utilizes children as design partners in the development of the digital library, and how it is used.  Adopting this approach sometimes yields approaches that, at least for many in the audience in Hangzhou, were rather surprising.
    • The ICDL (not to be confused with the International Computer Driving Licence, which shares the same acronym) is dedicated to building a collection of "outstanding children's books from around the world and supporting communities of children and adults in exploring and using this literature through innovative technology designed in close partnership with children for children". The ICDL, which is part of the World Bank-funded READ project in Mongolia, currently features children's books in over 50 languages and receives over 100,000 visitors a month to its web site.
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  • A Talking Book for Africa | A World Bank Blog on ICT use in Education on 2009-12-19
    • The 'Talking Book' is a low-cost audio device device with recording capabilities -- imagine a rubbery MP3 player about the size of a grapefuit -- rather ingeniously engineered (and re-engineered) to meet specific needs and usage scenarios in very poor communities in Africa.  It is designed for use in local languages, using locally produced content, as tool to promote literacy among primary school children (to cite just one goal and target group). One way to think of the device, Cliff said, is as a  'small portable computer without a display'.  While the project is still in its pilot stages, it is notable for its express interest in investigating solutions that are low cost and scalable from the beginning, and in rigorously monitoring and evaluating the impact of its interventions.
    • Literacy Bridge began, he said, with the idea that the most effective approach towards ending global poverty requires empowering people with better access to knowledge, and that those in greatest need are impeded by illiteracy, disability, and inadequate infrastructure. (Here's video from a talk Cliff gave at Google about the project's goals and approach to development.) The project is operationally very lean, supported financially by hundreds of individual donations and by thousands of volunteer hours. 
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  • NiJeL | Community Impact Through Mapping on 2009-12-17

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