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T4ID: T4ETechnology for Education
Tiffany FosterEmily Sale
Qitang Wang
Agenda
Why study education?
Woolf’s ArticleSoftware and Software CasesHardware and Hardware Cases
Content- Open Source Education
Panel
Why Education and Development?
Education
EconomyHealth
Education, Health, and Development*
DAVID E. BLOOM
What Does Woolf Say about Tech for Education’s Constraints?
ConstraintsEconomicsCritical Resources (internet)Physical infrastructure (school buildings, computers, etc.)Culture
Formal v. Informal EducationGender Disparity
Examples of Other Possible Constraints:
• Lack of funding/interest in educating all children.• Choosing between educating boys or girls
• Absence of Legal Structures• Especially Education or Information
Technology Policies and Laws
Software and Software Cases
How Can Software Help?Software
Personalized Instruction
Benefits of Personalized Instruction:Qualified TeachersConsistent Learning VenuesLanguage BarriersCognitive Levels
• Social Learning-Via mobile and wireless devices
• Benefits of Social Learning-Allows knowledge to be constructed in a community-Supports discussions, investigations
A Software Case Study: Pocket Schools
“Decentralized real-time interaction ad- hoc learning network specifically made for pocket-sized mobile devices”
Evaluated in South India
Social & Personalized
Features:Games for Education
Quiz Generator
Leader Board
Ability to Input Resources

http://suseit.stanford.edu/research/project/pocketschool
Farming Health
Storytelling/Literacy Math
http://suseit.stanford.edu/research/project/pocketschool
– Text2Teach (BridgeIT)
Mission:
To create a sustainable, scalable and replicable platform for delivering digitized education
To empower local teachers with new teaching tools
T2T: Background
Challenges
• Geographical landscape
• Low public spending on education
Opportunities
• Availability of cell phones
T2T ProjectTeachers can download short videos to a mobile device and screen them in classroom.
T2T also provides teaching plans
T2T: Technology
Phases One and Two Satellite-based platform
Phase Three and Four 3G-enabled smartphone equipped with an application called Nokia Education Delivery (NED).
Challenges & Problems?
Challenges
The quality of the videos
Variety of videos
Equipment shortages
T2T: OutcomeTotal public schools in Philippines
37, 333
No. of t2t recipient schools 557
No. of teachers trained in t2t
352
No. of student beneficiaries 56, 726• Improved teacher competence • More positive attitudes about learning and
technology• Higher learning gains in English and Science • Learning gains for socio-economically
disadvantaged students• Reduced absenteeism
Why successful?
Why successful?
Devices are easy to use
Video content matches local needs
Partnership
Hardware and Hardware Cases
Mobilink – SMS for Literacy
GoalUsing SMS to help improve young women’s literacy
Who: 250 females aged 15-24 who had recently completed a basic literacy program
In a rural area of southern Punjab province, Pakistan
Mobilink – SMS for Literacy
WhatProvide with a low-cost mobile phone and prepaid connection.
The girls received up to six messages a day on a variety of topics including religion, health and nutrition
Practice reading and writing down the messages and responding to their teachers via SMS.
OutcomeThe share of girls receiving the lowest scores dropping nearly 80%.
The expansion of the project: with an additional 1,000 female learners
Types of mLearning Programs (2010)
mLearning Initiatives by
Continent (2010)
Content-Open Source Education
E-Pustakalaya
An education-focused digital library containing various education resources that can be accessed through an intranet or on the Internet.
Language and Arts
Course-related materials
Reference materials
General educational materials
Teaching support materials
Newspaper & magazines
OLE Nepal has sought and received permissions from authors, publishers and organizations.
E-PustakalayaAccessible on the Internet at www.pustakalaya.org.
Can be installed in low power servers and deployed in schools and community libraries that either do not have Internet connectivity or have low bandwidth connection.
Allows multiple readers to access the same item simultaneously
Free access to over 3000 full text documents etc
Based on your experience within a country you have studied or visited and given the circumstances of that country, which is more important as a tool for educational development: hardware or software?
Why?
Describe how using either hardware or software for education addresses a key development challenge.
Consider:
T4ID4E Panel
Kim Campbell and Tablets in APS
EducationGeorgia State University
Work/ProjectsHub Atlanta
Innovation for People
IDEX Fellowship – developed a literacy program
Tablets in APS (Project Lead)Product innovation in emerging markets
Use tablets as a tool to empower low-income schools
Still in pilot stage
Shabnam Aggarwal and the Teach Tour
EducationElectrical and Computer Engineering (CMU, 2007)
Work/ProjectsMILLEE – for-profit venture, seeking to bring educational (English-teaching) games to children in rural India via mobile devices
HOBNOB – understanding how children’s engagement changes depending on time
The Teach Tour – understanding successes and failures in education and development
Pearson – building SMS, tablet and web products
Derek Lomas and Playpower
EducationBA in Cognitive Science (Yale)
MFA (UC San Diego)
PhD at HCI Institute (CMU) (in progress)
Work/ProjectsQualcomm (India) – “Mobile Phone as a First Computer”
Lecturer – “Design for Development”
Playpower.orgOpen-source development community
Games for $10 8-bit TV-Computers
Extending useful life of hardware reducing e-waste
Ketaki Desai and LeSyn Labs
EducationBachelor’s – Mechanical Engineering
PhD in Biomedical Sciences (Texas A&M)
Postdoc at Magee Women’s Research Institute
MPM (CMU)
Work/ProjectsManager of Special Projects in Biomedical Informatics (U Pitt)
LeSyn Labs – preparing children K-12 in the US to compete in the areas of STREAM, by giving them direct access to technology
Interested? Or Looking to Help?
Ask them interesting questions.
Contact them. Contact info is on the wiki.
Appendix:T2T Organizer
Founded by BridgeIT
Ayala Foundation, responsible for leading the project
Nokia, the technology project leader
The mobile infrastructure provider Globe Telecom
Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization for Innovation and Technology (SEAMEO INNOTECH), responsible for curriculum and teacher development
Department of Education of the Philippines (DepEd)
The satellite provider PMSI and the mobile phone software developer Chikka.
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