Media
Television
India’s
Cell Phone Tutors. ABC News, aired on June 16, 2009. (if you click
on this link, wait for the advertisement to play before the video
proceeds to air our work)
Cell Phone:
The Ring Heard Around the World. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
documentary, aired on public television on April 3 and June 5, 2008
Citations in Industry Publications
Striving and Surviving: Exploring the Lives of Women at the Base of the Pyramid. GSM Association mWomen Program, March 2012
Accelerating the Adoption of mLearning: A Call for Collective and Collaborative Action. World Economic Forum, February 2012
Innovation in Education: Lessons From Pioneers Around The World. Charles Leadbeater. Commissioned for the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) by Qatar Foundation, January 5, 2012
ICT in Education E-Newsletter. UNESCO Bangkok, June 2011 issue
mLearning: A Platform for Educational Opportunities at the Base of the Pyramid. GSM Association Development Fund, November 2010 (With foreword by Queen Rania Al Abdullah of Jordan)
Pockets of Potential: Using Mobile Technologies to Promote Children's Learning. Carly Shuler. The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, New York, January 2009
News in Print
Signal Poor on M-Learning’s Impact. In The Guardian, United Kingdom, March 13, 2012
Now, Learning Becomes Full of Play. In Ahmedabad Mirror, India, August 2, 2011
Old-style Computers Get New Life in Developing Countries. In Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, USA, February 10, 2010
Learn English Through Gilli Danda on Mobile. In DNA India, India, December 5, 2009
Angrezi, the Phoney Way. In Times of India, India, December 5, 2009
8-bit Games for $10 PCs. In DNA India, India, November 22, 2009
PlayPower: 1980s Computing for the 21st Century. In The Guardian, United Kingdom, November 4, 2009
Cell Phones Used to Teach English. In Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, USA, September 10, 2009
No Phony Business: How the Cell Phone Revolution is Sweeping the Indian Countryside. In The Caravan: A Journal of Politics and Culture, India, July 1-15, 2009 edition, pp. 40-44
Becoming Literate, One Cellphone at a Time. In Ahmedabad Mirror, India, April 23, 2009
Uttar Pradesh Kids Call California for an English Lesson. In Indian Express, India, January 1, 2009
Smartphones are the PCs of the Developing World. In New Scientist, August 1, 2007
Tech Initiatives Aim to Go Global: Businesses and Academia Unite to Bring Information to Underdeveloped Regions. In The Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2004, p. B4
Online Popular Media
Learning to Read and Write by Gaming. In Scope, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 23, 2010
Cellphone Serves as Learning Platform for the Developing World. In Communications of the ACM News, July 6, 2010
In Rural India, Learning English via Cellphone. In The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 21, 2009
Navigating Identity - Reimagining Oneself Online. In Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning, MacArthur Foundation, October 5, 2009
Cell Phone Learning Can Make a Difference. In Babbel Blog, February 27, 2009
MILLEE: Approaching Global Literacy with Cellphone Technology. HASTAC announcement, MacArthur Foundation, January 9, 2009
MILLEE: English Literacy through Games on the Third Screen. In MobileActive.org, March 18, 2008
Our MacArthur Foundation-funded pilot study on how children in rural
India use cellphones for mobile learning in their everyday lives,
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