Tag: children

Want to help your kids with reading?

Sep 20, 2016

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Graeme Smith

in Improve teaching practice, inform teaching, Knowing the learner, learner, Learners, Learning, Learning Outcomes, Online learning, Read, Read better, Reading, Reading comprehension, Reading Comprehension Strategies, teaching, Teaching philosophy, Uncategorized

My friend James is developing free resources for parents to help kids with reading. There’s video tutorials, PDF downloads, comprehension questions, and all kinds of stuff. This is very cool Kiwi content that you should support. You can also watch and listen to James reading the stories out loud. You can have a look at…
How to win $15 million dollars for developing a literacy and numeracy training solution: Global Learning XPRIZE

Nov 17, 2014

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Graeme Smith

in Autonomous learning, Children, Developing countries, Education, Future, Global, How to win, Literacy, Market Failure, Maths, Numeracy, Read, Solution, Sschools, Tablet based, Teachers, Write, XPRIZE

If you could develop a scalable, tablet based, individualised learning solution for teaching basic literacy and numeracy to kids in developing countries, you could win $15 million dollars. It’s a competition and it’s happening right now. You can read about it here on the xPrize website, and I’ve pasted in the details below as well.…