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Helping To Increase Literacy Around The World

HELPING TO INCREASE LITERACY AROUND THE WORLD Around the world, millions of children are out of school and millions of others are in school but not acquiring even basic literacy skills after several years of schooling. As a result, children are coming into the adult world without the building blocks for lifelong learning that they need to thrive in today's global society. CANNOT FIND EMPLOYMENT PEOPLE WITH THE CANNOT READ CANNOT SEND INABILITY TO READ AND THE NEWS AN EMAIL COMMUNICATE Today, organizations are attempting to close the literacy gap for those who do not, did not, and will not have access to 'quality' formal education. This list represents just a few of the groups working to make a difference, helping underserved and inaccessible communities access a better tomorrow. PRATHAM WHERE A nongovernmental organization; started in 2005 Implementing India's Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) - measures basic reading and numeracy achievement through Grade 5 Across all districts of India, primarily focused on rural areas WHY AVAILABILITY INFLUENCE Administered to more than 700,000 children in 15,000 villages Measured the seriousness of the basic skill problem – less than half the children in Grade 5, can read a Grade 2 text. UNESCO'S LITERACY ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING PROGRAM (LAMP) WHERE UNESCO Assess the quality of literacy, on a continuum, by sampling and reporting findings for four age groups: 15-24, 25-39, 40-64, and 65 and above Afghanistan, El Salvador, India, Jordan, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Palestine, Paraguay and Vietnam WHY AVAILABILITY COST Instrument piloted in Arabic, English, French, Hausa and Spanish Varies by country; depends on the number of assessment languages and sample size for each language MAJOR STRENGTH Nations' buy-in for assessing the quality of literacy in their youth and adult population INDIAN INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT, AHMEDABAD & PLANETREAD WHERE Partnership of an academic and nonprofit organization First two institutions in the world to leverage the power of Same Language Subtitling (SLS) on mainstream television for mass literacy exposure; SLS on existing Bollywood film songs on TV makes reading inescapable and an automatic outcome of everyday television consumption India WHY AVAILABILITY INFLUENCE 150 million TV households 9 out of 10 people prefer to watch songs with subtitles 750 million viewers 15% average improvement in 150 minutes per day on average, ratings for programming with SLS per viewer 1,000 Bollywood films, therefore, 5000 film songs produced a year 25% to 56% change in functional literacy rate of rural school children that have 30 minutes of Bollywood dominates content on TV SLS per week 34% to 70% change in newspaper reading among youth and adults Film songs have an extended shelf life and are enjoyed by literates, 200 million weak-reading TV viewers are getting 30 minutes of weekly reading practice on Doordarshan, India's national and weak-literates and non-literates 10 weekly half-hour song-based TV programs since 2006 state television network Every U.S. dollar spent each year on SLS delivers regular reading practice to over 5,000 people QUESTSCOPE WHERE Collaboration between Dr. Curt Rhodes and Jordan's Ministry of Education (MoE) A non-formal education (NFE) program offering an estimated 100,000 school dropouts – 55% males and 45% females - a second chance at vocational opportunities and a pathway to formal college education Jordan WHY AVAILABILITY INFLUENCE General Education Equivalence Diploma (GED) – an accredited certificate of completion equivalent to the first 10 years of compulsory 50-60% of enrollment has completed all three cycles 10,000 youth have benefited education 1/3 rehabilitated into FES Males (up to age 18) and Females (up to age 22) who have not completed 10th grade and have been out of school for more than 1/3 resettled 1/3 currently enrolled in the program 365 days are eligible to enroll GED allows for additional education options: Enrollment in Voc/Tech diploma courses Possibility of taking a placement test to attend the Formal Education System (FES) Option of continuing to 12th grade and then a university degree Fast-track program consisting of three 8-month cycles organized around content/learning oriented to Grades 1-4, 5-7 and 8-10 Requires a minimum of 16 months, minimum 40% attendance YOZA (YOZA CELLPHONE STORIES) WHERE Originally known as the m4Lit (mobile for literacy) Project; launched in 2009 with funding from the Shuttleworth Foundation Project that demonstrates that mobile phones offer a new way to bring reading content to a much broader audience South Africa WHY AVAILABILITY INFLUENCE 51% of households do not own any leisure books (2006) Web browser MXit (a popular mobile instant 7% of public schools had functioning libraries of any kind (2009) messaging platform started in South Africa) 100% of the population has access to a mobile phone LIBRARY More than 30 mobile-novels Kontax, a mobile novel or short ebook, two stories were published in English and isiXhosa (an indigenous language) 18 poems 5 Shakespeare plays First 7 months, both stories: Read 34,000 times INTERACTIVE FEATURES commenting, voting, entering writing competitions, reviewing 4,000 comments left by readers 4,000 entries were received in a stories writing competition 2009-2011 (FIRST 2% YEARS) LOW COST 575,000 stories, poems and plays users need to pay data download charges to their provider (content itself is free), however the stories are short and the data consumption is very low were read 50,000 comments left 44,000 votes cast on chapters 220,000 unique visitors TOSTAN WHERE A nonprofit organized in 1991; the word "tostan" means "breakthrough" and "spreading and sharing" in Wolof, the most widely spoken language in Senegal Engaging thousands of communities in a 3 year non-formal education (NFE) program embedding social networking and community into its program to spur change 8 countries in West and East Africa, including Senegal WHY INNOVATION AVAILABILITY Embedding social networking and community organizing into its program to spur meaningful and sustainable social change Adolescents and adults with none or very little education 22 African languages in remote regions of 8 West/East African countries Classes taught by culturally competent and knowledgeable INFLUENCE Affecting women and girls, who, frequently for the first time, learn to speak up in class and community meetings about issues that influence their own futures and facilitators from the same ethnic background as the participants communities Community-lead changes to social and community issues BBC JANALA WHERE Launched in 2009, Janala, which means "window" in Bangla, and is a collaboration between Bangladeshi government and the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) Reaching 24 million English language learners and delivered on multiple platforms, such as mobile phones, television, the Internet, newspapers, CDs and books Bangladesh WHY INNOVATION AVAILABILITY Aimed at beginner 15- to 45-year-old adult population Multi-platform, decentralized, self-directed learning environment made up of three separate courses, each being a module of 96 lessons Brand and public messaging keeps a strong focus on making the entire process fun, accessible and affordable, on all media platforms, with the tagline "Chailei Parben," which means, "If you try, you can INFLUENCE Breaking down psychological barriers to the idea of English do it!" learning, which include: it is scary, expensive, only for people who have a high school education, embarrassing to speak with mistakes, or difficult to learn Extensive effort into making lessons culturally appropriate and include ideas/topics relevant to Bangladeshi life. Early lessons have Bangla style and friendly, colloquial and accessible, rather than formal or bookish Source: Global Agenda Council on Education and Skills, "Education and Skills 2.0: New Targets and Innovative Approaches, 2014. TE CH MAKE A DIFFERENCE created by OBizMedia WHAT OHM WHAT ОНМ WHAT ОНМ WHAT ОНМ WHAT Онм WHAT OHM WHAT OHM

Helping To Increase Literacy Around The World

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Education and Skills 2.0: New Targets and Innovative Approaches, a new book from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Education and Skills, discusses some of the many organizations an...

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