We’re making children’s books. What that means is a lot of my time is spent fact checking, editing, and looking for great open use pictures. Writing a book on cats means that today my job is searching the internet for pictures of cats. It’s a good day. I’ve seen and learned some cool stuff, but this by far […]
We are super excited to announce our first perk! 125 people came together to help make the project a reality and we couldn’t be more thankful. While we didn’t make it to our goal, we’re still going to be able to make ten physical libraries in Cambodia as well as an even larger collection of […]
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We’re so excited about our Literacy for Anywhere project that we’re going to share a few of the great facts and creative commons pictures that we find as we go! Want to see facts and pictures like these turned into educational books for children everywhere? Support our campaign on IndieGoGo! 1. There are over […]
We’ve got a new program in the works! A full, professionally developed, series of leveled readers for primary students that can be downloaded, translated, and printed, for free! Check out our video above, and donate to, like, and share the campaign!
Teaching Literacy as a whole? Check out our literacy resource page with articles, links, and more to get you started! It’s amazing how often speaking ability doesn’t translate to writing ability with foreign language learners. In fact, they use different parts of the brain so it’s not uncommon to meet dazzling conversationalists who can barely compose […]
Teaching Literacy as a whole? Check out our literacy resource page with articles, links, and more to get you started! Any complete language curriculum is bound to include reading. Plenty of research has shown us that reading and writing use different parts of the brain than speaking and listening, which means the skills don’t translate as […]
As funding for education in the developing world begins to dry up, resource-rich low and middle income nations have a powerful option to stand on their own, according to a recent UNESCO policy paper. Turning the ‘Resource Curse’ Into a Blessing for Education, which is certainly worth a read, looks at 17 countries and examines their […]
Share of the Week is open content stuff so great and awesome that we can’t keep it to ourselves. Creative Commons Love: Caneles on Flickr.com
Gurgaon, India saw a three-day International Summit on School and Higher Education that resulted in the signing of 112 Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) in a wide range of areas including faculty and student exchange programs, research, and dual degree program creation. The summit gave an opportunity for international consultants and representatives from education institutions to […]