Children in an Ethiopian village using the new tablets to learn

 

The Global Literacy Collaborative, a consortium of MIT MediaLab, The Center at MIT, Tufts University and Georgia State University, has launched a program for children as young as 4 and 5, using interactive tools to promote literacy and understanding of secular ethics and transformative values.

The global character development curriculum shall leverage the global reach of the platform to facilitate 1) the development of empathy for others, 2) a sense of interconnectedness, 3) awareness of self and others, 4) empowerment, and 5) create opportunities for positive leadership to emerge amongst the children.

There are three primary ways and places where character development curriculum could be woven into and extend this platform: weaving it into the language literacy curriculum, leveraging the connections between different learning communities, and the development of specific apps or activities that directly address the ethics curriculum.

We have already seen from the first deployments in Ethiopia, Africa and rural US, Georgia and Alabama how his platform can empower children in these two communities. The child-driven learning dynamic that emerges when a group of children engage with the tablets, creates the natural collaborative atmosphere in which kids of greater ability are compelled and excited to help by taking a leadership role within the group. The positive, collaborative exchanges among the children enabled by this platform creates a natural environment for the development of a sense of ethics. We can expand upon that by looking at what stories and scenarios are represented within the context of language and literacy acquisition. These stories and characters can be used to exemplifying and cultivate positive ethical behavior.


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