Friday, April 29, 2016

Can tech teach kids to teach themselves? XPRIZE, Google, and the UN team up to find out



GLEXP_reading_rHundreds of millions of kids around the world lack access to, among other things, basic education — much less organized school systems with adequate teaching resources. XPRIZE is hoping that tech can help where humanitarian efforts have yet to make a dent — and putting $15 million on the line to that end, with the help of Google and the United Nations.


The goal is to create a software and hardware platform that will allow kids anywhere — but in Tanzania, to start — to pursue their own literacy education without the need for any top-down organization…



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Can tech teach kids to teach themselves? XPRIZE, Google, and the UN team up to find out

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