Improving literacy in rural India: Cellphone games in an after-school program

2009 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2009 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 139-149

  Kam, Matthew ^a   Kumar, Anuj ^c   Jain, Shirley ^d   Mathur, Akhil ^c   Canny, John ^b  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c DHIRUBHAI AMBANI INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Cellphone; English as a Second Language (ESL); Literacy; Mobile game; Pilot study

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; CELL PHONE; DEVELOPING REGIONS; DEVELOPING WORLD; EDUCATIONAL GAME; EDUCATIONAL RESOURCE; ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE; FORMAL EDUCATION; FUTURE DIRECTIONS; LEARNING ASSESSMENT; MOBILE GAMES; PILOT STUDIES;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; LINGUISTICS; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 77951535401     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICTD.2009.5426712     Document Type: Conference Paper

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