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.