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Entries Tagged "Reading"

OLE Rwanda is tripling literacy test scores with Teachermates

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Tags: Africa, Innovations for Learning, literacy, OLE Rwanda, Open Learning Exchange, Reading, Reading Skills, Richard Rowe, RTI, Rwanda, Teachermate, TeacherMate Differentiated Instruction System, Testing, USAID
Posted in Reading Skills in Primary Schools | Comments Off on OLE Rwanda is tripling literacy test scores with Teachermates

USAID Request for Proposals: Innovations in Education Data

Tuesday, January 10th, 2012

Tags: All Children Reading, AusAID, Education, Education Management Information Systems, EMIS, Grand Challenge for Development, Grant, ICT4EDU, literacy, Proposal, Reading, RFP, USAID, World Vision
Posted in Education Management Information Systems | 5 Comments »

Hardware Costs are not a Barrier for ICT Use in Literacy and Reading

Friday, November 11th, 2011

Tags: Aakash, Basic literacy, digital curriculum, e-reader, Early Grade Reading Assessment, eBooks, Evaluations, Grand Challenge, Hardware, ICT, ICT intervention, ICT4E, ICT4EDU, ipad, kindle, Laptop, literacy, OLPC, Plan Ceibal, Reading, Reading ICT, Reading Skills, Tablet, TCO, Total Cost of Ownership, UbiSlate, USAID, Vital Wave Consulting
Posted in Literacy ICT Challenges | 4 Comments »

Open Call for Submissions: What are the Greatest Challenges in Promoting Literacy with ICT?

Thursday, November 3rd, 2011

Tags: appropriate hardware, Content, Developing World, eBooks, Human Constraints, ICT infrastructure, ICT tools, ICT4E, literacy, Market Failure, Primary Schools, Reading, Reading Delivery Systems, Reading ICT, Software, Technology
Posted in Literacy ICT Challenges | 10 Comments »

Worldreader is leading a reading revolution in the developing world

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Tags: Amazon, Amazon Kindle, David Risher, e-Books, e-reader, eBooks, Ghana, Kenya, kindle, mEducation, mLearning, Mobile Phones, Penguin, Random House, Reading, Roald Dahl, tablet devices, Textbooks, worldreader
Posted in Reading Skills in Primary Schools | 4 Comments »

Improving Reading Skills Through Personalizing Literacy Instruction

Thursday, October 13th, 2011

Tags: adaptive materials, Charles Callis, Early Reading Program, ICT4E, Individualized Instruction, personalized literacy instruction, Reading, Reading Instruction, Reading Skills, remediation, repetition, Waterford Early Learning, Waterford Institute
Posted in Reading Skills in Primary Schools | 2 Comments »