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How might we increase the availability of affordable learning tools & services for students in the developing world?
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Challenge Themes
Building on Playfulness
By adding goals – can play be transformed into enhanced learning?
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Meena Kadri
August 28, 2010
02:03AM |
Inspiring Indivduals
Inspired individuals who created learning environments with available resources are the best examples to follow.
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Dhyaasa
August 27, 2010
06:23PM |
Interactive Classroom sharing across the ocean
This month, GOOD Magazine sent out their GOOD Guide to education. In it, one of the first ideas that they discuss is the way that some schools are using technology to reach across continents.
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Dani Nordin
August 27, 2010
04:42PM |
Create a Book Sharing Business
Under The Reading Tree is a charity that provides welcoming places for children and adults to learn and experience the joy of reading. They do this by collaborating with local partners. An educational entrepreneur could build a book business (eith...
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Kara Pecknold
August 27, 2010
04:41PM |
Sometimes solutions are designed for developing countries but are not accepted by the governments or populace, due to a lack of involvement of her local population in the design process. Some may even find it insulting to have others spoonfeed change to their countries.
Partner local researchers and changemakers
Sometimes solutions are designed for developing countries but are not accepted by the governments or populace, due to a lack of involvement of her local population in the design process. Some may even find it insulting to have others spoonfeed cha...
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Julian Koo
August 06, 2010
06:31PM |
Community Ecosystem Model
India's celebrated Barefoot College helps teach skills to help rural communities, including children, become self-sufficient and sustainable. http://www.barefootcollege.org/
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Meena Kadri
August 04, 2010
08:06AM |
Citizen Schools, pairs volunteer adults, w/ expertise/experiences, & school children to explore new areas, build practical skills, & create hands-on projects (from farming to programming), increasing active engagement of both students & adults in education. ~4.5K students & ~4K volunteers partner each year increasing apprentice student attendance, grades, & graduation. For Affordable Private Schools, what ways are there to involve adults in the community, besides as full-time teachers or school fee payers?
Adults as Citizen Mentors/Teachers
Citizen Schools, pairs volunteer adults, w/ expertise/experiences, & school children to explore new areas, build practical skills, & create hands-on projects (from farming to programming), increasing active engagement of both students & adults in ...
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Vincent Cheng
August 06, 2010
03:35PM |
Local Content Creation
A rural newspaper empowers its creators and stimulates community awareness.
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Meena Kadri
August 19, 2010
10:07AM |
Featherweight multimedia devices
Featherweight multimedia devices used in the agriculture and health domains
in India.
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Adriana Olmos
August 07, 2010
02:34AM |
great solutions already being implemented and accepted among poor communities
Enciclomedia project in Mexico
great solutions already being implemented and accepted among poor communities
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PABLO QUINTERO
August 05, 2010
07:54PM |
Affordable Lighting for Evening Studying
D.light sells low-cost solar lanterns in India and Africa. These lights are especially effective for children who live in homes with no electricity. With a small solar lantern, they can study in the evening. http://www.dlightdesign.com/home_global...
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Jocelyn Wyatt
August 01, 2010
06:04PM |
Disused shipping containers as makeshift libraries
As an alternative to building conventional libraries disused shipping containers can be converted and used as cheap, easily transportable makeshift libraries and increase access to books for children.
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Edward Swift
August 03, 2010
07:37AM |
Board Game on Big Issues
A board game was proposed to educate children on basic information about food, water, health and sanitation during a recent collaboration between PSFK & UNICEF.
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Meena Kadri
August 07, 2010
07:37AM |
Learning through Games
Games can change behavior, and the world. Jane McGonigal, games researcher, describes how games are in fact developing important skills within societies (and have been, since the advent of dice) - skills that will be critical to overcoming global...
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Rachael Zahn
August 04, 2010
09:49PM |
We can either build and work with what they already have or if necessary re-Design the educational System as a whole.
first things first
We can either build and work with what they already have or if necessary re-Design the educational System as a whole.
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PABLO QUINTERO
August 22, 2010
11:01PM |
Portable Light Project
Beautiful projects that aims at delivering de-centralized renewable power and light to the developing world.
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Adriana Olmos
August 07, 2010
02:13AM |
RAFT -- wherever you are.
Building on Tom's piece of inspiration, RAFT (Resource Area For Teachers / http://www.raft.net) helps teachers obtain low-cost, hands-on teaching materials by accepting donations of leftover office supplies from around the San Francisco bay area. ...
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Katie Clark
August 01, 2010
11:09PM |
Learning to learn / Training to train
The key to learning is people. One of the keys to addressing this challenge is to empower students and teachers with the skills to support effective learning. Simply put, the easiest way to build availability and services, is to train the train...
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Neil Gains
August 03, 2010
02:35AM |
Match Point: How to Reach Rural Areas
Question: Which manufactured consumer product has the deepest market penetration in rural India?
Answer: Matches
Matches, have probably the most pervasive distribution network of any manufactured consumer product in India; they find their way t...
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smriti mehrotra
August 10, 2010
02:25PM |
The rural families especially in India have a family occupation, mostly agriculture or regional arts & crafts. The children from these families mostly stick to the same occupation. The common complaint that these families have is that the knowledge gained in the schools is not used in the practical life later when the child starts working. So most of the families dont let the child go to school.
Parents should be made aware of the importance of education.
Making parents and children realize importance of education through learning tools
The rural families especially in India have a family occupation, mostly agriculture or regional arts & crafts. The children from these families mostly stick to the same occupation. The common complaint that these families have is that the knowledg...
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Madhavi Kulkarni
August 06, 2010
01:31AM |
