Tony Bates » Andhra Pradesh http://www.tonybates.ca Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:17:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Learning English via games on cell-phones in rural India http://www.tonybates.ca/2009/10/22/learning-english-via-games-on-cell-phones-in-rural-india/ http://www.tonybates.ca/2009/10/22/learning-english-via-games-on-cell-phones-in-rural-india/#comments Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:39:39 +0000 Tony Bates http://www.tonybates.ca/?p=2516 Simmi Aujla (2009)  In Rural India, Learning English via Cellphone Chronicle of Higher Education, October 21

A project based at Carnegie Mellon University will study how effective games on cellphones are at teaching English to students in rural India.

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Why am I deeply skeptical of such a worthy effort? Could it be that loaning 450 cellphones to [...]]]> Simmi Aujla (2009)  In Rural India, Learning English via Cellphone Chronicle of Higher Education, October 21

A project based at Carnegie Mellon University will study how effective games on cellphones are at teaching English to students in rural India.

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Why am I deeply skeptical of such a worthy effort? Could it be that loaning 450 cellphones to children in villages in Andhra Pradesh will do nothing to solve the problems of education in rural India? Or am I missing something here?

Indian readers – please comment when you have read the article online from the Chronicle of Higher Education!

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