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Your Project's Name:
MILLEE: Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies
Your Project's Homepage:
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~mattkam/millee
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University of California
Berkeley Institute of Design
354/360 Hearst Memorial Mining Building #1764
Berkeley, CA 94720-1764, USA
(510) 642-1268
A little bit about you and your project:
Literacy levels in most poor countries remain shockingly low and formal education is making little progress. MILLEE improves literacy through language learning games on cellphones – the “Personal Computers of the developing world” – which are a perfect vehicle for new kinds of out-of-school language learning. Games bring children into rich, immersive environments where they can acquire and use language naturally, while encouraging them to transfer their language skills outside the game.

Matthew Kam is a Ph.D. candidate from the University of California, Berkeley in Computer Science with a minor in Education. He is affiliated with the Berkeley Institute of Design, and his research integrates his interests in economic development, education and information technology. He has previously explored how computing technologies can be designed in the contexts of education and microfinance, with an emphasis on low-income users in the United States and Uganda. Matthew holds a B.A. in Economics and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley.
MILLEE was recently featured in a television documentary produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: http://www.cbc.ca/doczone/cellphones/

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At 3:34am on May 18, 2008, cathy davidson said…
http://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FSmartMobs Matt, have you and John seen this new book by Eric Klopfer on Augmented Learning and importance of mobile games and mobile devices for learning? I read the description on Smart Mobs and thought of MILLEE.
 
 

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