Can technology help teach literacy in poor communities?

Tuesday, April 26, 2016 - 11:30 in Mathematics & Economics

For the past four years, researchers at MIT, Tufts University, and Georgia State University have been conducting a study to determine whether tablet computers loaded with literacy applications could improve the reading preparedness of young children living in economically disadvantaged communities. At the Association for Computing Machinery’s Learning at Scale conference this week, they presented […]

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