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Teaching Bronx Students the Language of Computers
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 22.2.2016
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | computer programming, digitized education, diversity, game, school, youth
Summary | The Bronx is offering their local students computer programming classes - many more than average schools. The students in the Bronx are learning to code so that they can create the technology of the future rather than just consume it. A group of students presented an app they created to investors in Manhattan: it lets users post videos showing police brutality and makes an interactive map of where the incidents happened. Users can also play a game on the app in which they have to avoid ficticious police gun shots.
Image Description | Three male students of color holding a presentation.
Image Tags | male(s)
Letter of recommendation: Duolingo
Newspaper | The New York Times
Date | 27.7.2017
Language | English
Country | U.S.
Topic Tags | digitized education, game, smartphone, translation
Summary | Duolingo is a language learning app that is designed like a game and rewards users with points when they finish a lesson. It is similarly limited in its effectiveness, it may familiarize users with a foreign language but it is entirely text-based rather than spoken. It is just a mildly more productive way to waste time on a smartphone.
Image Description | Illustration showing greeting in various languages.
Image Tags | text
Do you speak English? Hell yeah!
Newspaper | Die Zeit
Date | 30.10.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | digitized education, game, school
Summary | Students are much more competent in English - and much more motivated to learn it. The digital era has them all caught up in a world online where the lingua franca is English. They watch movies and series in the original language (usually English), chat with their co-players of Minecraft in English, and follow English-speaking celebrities directly without the mediation of a German platform.
Image Description | N/A
App-Charts: Mathe-Känguru hüpft in die Charts
(App charts: math kangaroo jumps into the charts)
Newspaper | Freie Presse
Date | 16.2.2017
Language | German
Country | Germany
Topic Tags | childhood, digitized education, game, school
Summary | One of the most-sold apps in Germany recently is the math kangaroo app. It is an app that attempts to make math fun for students and the grade of difficulty can be set to whatever school grade the user goes to. Other popular apps include picture editing apps, Minecraft, messenger apps like WhatsApp, and many others.
Image Description | Image of the math kangaroo.
Image Tags | logo
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