Project / Social & Political Issues
EcoBugs
A game aimed at learners aged 7 to 11, EcoBugs encourages learners' interest in the environment as they explore their surroundings to create, collect, and monitor the health of virtual 'bug' species...
Mobile
Project / Teaching & Learning Practices
Youth APPLab
In the Youth APPLab, middle and high school students in the District of Columbia design software and mobile apps in an after-school program that supplements their formal learning in computer science...
Project / Teaching & Learning Practices
Mobile Action Lab
Youth Radio’s Mobile Action Lab networks emerging entrepreneurs, social change agents, and top technologists with Oakland-based youth participants who propose, develop, and market online and mobile...
Project / Technology, Networks & Sciences
Origami: Enfolding Real and Virtual Learning
Origami is a file-sharing system you can talk with by email and text message. It promotes ad hoc learning spaces using a visual tag for linking physical spaces with existing collaborative software...
Project / Teaching & Learning Practices
Mobile Movement: Handheld Philanthropy
Primary leadership: Leba Haber Rubinoff Award amount: $72,000 Mobile Movement connects young African social entrepreneurs with young North American professionals. Using mobile phone technology, which...
Project / Teaching & Learning Practices
WildLab
By applying the latest mobile phone technology to K-12 participatory science, WildLab engages students in collaborative citizen science and encourages local environmental stewardship. Using GPS-...
Project / Social & Political Issues
Voces Moviles (Mobile Voices)
Vóces Moviles (VozMob) is a university-community partnership between the University of Southern California and IDEPSCA (Instituto de Educación Popular del Sur de California) that connects low-wage...
Project / Teaching & Learning Practices
M-Ubuntu: Teachers Building an M-Literacy Collaboratory
Applying the Zulu community-based problem-solving concept of Ubuntu-best translated as "I am because we are"-M-Ubuntu uses inexpensive, low-threshold mobile phone technologies to promote mobile...
Project / Social & Political Issues
Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies (MILLEE)
Mobile and Immersive Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies, a project to be conducted in rural India, promotes literacy through language-learning games on mobile phones: the "PCs of the...
Project / Teaching & Learning Practices
Black Cloud: Environmental Studies Gaming
Black Cloud was an environmental studies game that mixed the physical with the virtual to engage high school students in Los Angeles. Teams role-played as either real estate developers or...