21st century skills

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Welcome to GLF - The Global Literacy Foundation.

We invite you to participate in the GLF Advocacy Experience! As a supporter, you will raise awareness and funds to help learners achieve true 21st Century Skills.

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Help GLF advance Modern Literacy. What is Modern Literacy? Click here to find out.

Transform industrial age education.
Recognize that lifelong learning and brain fitness go hand in hand.

Pocket Literacy Coach helps parents educate their children!

Fewer than 45% of America's parents read to their child.* Fewer than 28% remember to tell their child a story on a regular basis!

Research has proven that exposure to these early reading skills are essential for future literacy success in school and in life. PLC can help! Parents and teachers who are using PLC sing our praises for providing fun, creative reminders that are convenient and can easily fit into your busy schedule.

More information at: https://pocketliteracy.com/

The Tech Mobile - Mobile Computer Classroom

We are Computerworks Global (a 501 c 3 non profit organization), Our first progect is "The Tech Mobile". This is a Mobile computer classroom that teaches basic computer skills to the underserved. We are looking for support and assistance form Your Global Literacy Foundation for equipment and administration. We have the support and will be working the Los Angeles Unified School District in providing our services. We are looking for any grants/sponsorship of vechicles etc that would help in getting this project off to a great start.

Bright Africa Primary School Serinnya

We are building up a primary school in our rural village, called Bright Africa Primary School Serinnya in Sserinnya community. I wish to know if we can also get a donation for books for books in our school.

Kanyike Simon Peter

peter_kanyike@yahoo.co.uk

Evolving 1:1

A private school in North Carolina has begun working iPads into its 7-year-old 1:1 computing initiative, but it's not stopping there.

By Bridget McCrea
05/11/11

Cannon School students in grades 9 through 12 have been using laptop computers in the classroom for the last seven years. Now, the independent K-12 college preparatory school in Concord, NC, is taking the same step that many other institutions are doing right now by integrating iPads into the classroom.

With about 850 students, the school began providing middle school pupils with iPads at the start of the current school year. Some of the funding for the equipment came from $50,000 raised by parents to help pay for the iPads, plus several Smart Boards and Smart Tables and a new virtual language lab.

More at: http://thejournal.com/articles/2011/05/11/evolving-1-to-1.aspx

Room to Read

Our Vision

Room to Read believes that World Change Starts with Educated Children. We envision a world in which all children can pursue a quality education that enables them to reach their full potential and contribute to their community and the world.

Our Mission

Room to Read seeks to transform the lives of millions of children in developing countries by focusing on literacy and gender equality in education. Working in collaboration with local communities, partner organizations and governments, we develop literacy skills and a habit of reading among primary school children, and support girls to complete secondary school with the relevant life skills to succeed in school and beyond.

More information at: http://www.roomtoread.org/

Boosting Classroom Efficiency with the Help of Technology

When used judiciously, technology can help teachers be more effective and efficient at their jobs. Equipped with the right technology, teachers can gauge students’ understanding of the material at frequent intervals, then use this information to target their instruction accordingly—ensuring that all students are on a path to success. Technology also can help teachers differentiate their instruction for every child—and research shows these strategies are keys to raising student achievement.

With support from Promethean, we’ve put together this collection of stories from our archives to help you and your district realize technology’s potential to increase teacher effectiveness and efficiency.

—The Editors

More at: http://www.eschoolnews.com/2010/08/04/boosting-classroom-efficiency-with-the-help-of-technology/

Our Plastic Brains

ew neuroscience research tells us that specific technological interventions can actually build critical brain structures in struggling learners.

By Martha S. Burns
05/02/11

How does the brain learn? Why do some children find learning so challenging? What can educators do to help those children? These are questions that neuroscientists have been grappling with over the past 10 years. By and large, they are beginning to find answers.

Leveraging the Power of Mobile Learning

Mobile learning used to imply laptop computers. But now, with a host of new and more powerful mobile learning devices available (including tablets and smart phones, with all kinds of corresponding learning “apps”), the definition of “mobile learning” has expanded tremendously.

This opens a new world of possibilities for extending the learning time for students, and making learning more participatory for them. For example, whereas with laptops you needed to be in range of a Wi-Fi network to get internet access, with a smart phone or tablet with wireless 3G connectivity you can get online from virtually anywhere. This truly delivers on the promise of “anytime, anywhere” learning.

Nearly half of Detroit’s adults are functionally illiterate, report finds

According to the Huffington Post, Detroit’s population fell by 25 percent in the last decade. And of those that stuck around, nearly half of them are functionally illiterate, a new report finds. According to estimates by The National Institute for Literacy, roughly 47 percent of adults in Detroit, Michigan — 200,000 total — are “functionally illiterate,” meaning they have trouble with reading, speaking, writing and computational skills. Even more surprisingly, the Detroit Regional Workforce finds half of that illiterate population has obtained a high school degree…

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