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Michael A. Madaio; Evelyn Yarzebinski; Vikram Kamath; Benjamin D. Zinszer; Joelle Hannon-Cropp; Fabrice Tanoh; Yapo Hermann Akpe; Axel Blahoua Seri; Kaja K. Jasinska; Amy Ogan – Grantee Submission, 2020
Access to literacy is critical to children's futures, but formal education may be insufficient for fostering early literacy, especially in low-resource contexts. Educational technologies used at home may be able to help, but it is unclear whether or how children (and families) will use such technologies at home in rural communities, particularly…
Descriptors: Independent Study, Technology Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Literacy
Michael A. Madaio; Fabrice Tanoh; Axel Blahoua Seri; Kaja Jasinska; Amy Ogan – Grantee Submission, 2019
Significant research has demonstrated the crucial role that parents play in supporting the development of children's literacy, but in contexts where adults may lack sufficient literacy in the target language, it is not clear how to most effectively scaffold parental support for children's literacy. Prior work has designed technologies to teach…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Foreign Countries, Family Literacy, Technological Literacy
Michael A. Madaio; Vikram Kamath; Evelyn Yarzebinski; Shelby Zasacky; Fabrice Tanoh; Joelle Hannon-Cropp; Justine Cassell; Kaja Jasinska; Amy Ogan – Grantee Submission, 2019
Low levels of childhood literacy in global contexts may be mitigated by educational technologies, however, these technologies often rely on parents of sufficient literacy to effectively support their children. Given low levels of adult literacy in many low-resource contexts, we investigate the nature of low-literate adult support for children's…
Descriptors: Literacy, Illiteracy, Educational Technology, Parent Child Relationship
Hanemann, Ulrike, Ed.; Scarpino, Cassandra, Ed. – UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, 2016
This compilation includes programmes which promote language and culture as resources and see them as an added value rather than a challenge for literacy teaching and learning. It also includes programmes designed to support migrants and refugees by equipping them for integration into mainstream society while strengthening their literacy skills in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Literacy Education, Multicultural Education, Immigrants