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Use the button below to access the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Showcase page where you can find both live session recordings and pre-recorded presentations.

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The 2021 mEducation Alliance Symposium featured 145+ presenter line-up who represented 38 countries. Presenters showcased their work in a variety of participatory formats including gallery walks, lightning talks, panels, plenary sessions, virtual exhibits. 

Foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) needs to be the basic starting points of a child’s education upon  which all other learning is built. Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, an estimated 617 million children and adolescents around the world were unable to reach minimum proficiency levels in reading and mathematics – even though two thirds of them were in school.  The ongoing impacts of the COVID-19 crisis only worsened this situation, particularly for young women.

The quality, appropriate, and scalable uses of technology has and can help mitigate some aspects of this educational crisis, particularly as we look at post-COVID-19 recovery efforts.

For this year’s Symposium, our 11th annual, we featured FLN builders from across the globe sharing good practice initiatives, promising research, and convening impactful networking around EdTech To Accelerate Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN), particularly in low-resource -developing country context.

Escape the Symposium

Oh no! – Did you fall asleep at our 2021 Symposium, were apparently transported in time to closer to Halloween, and now can’t seem to find your way out? Well that’s a disturbing trick. Guess you’ll need to figure out how to get out (before any creepy crawlies find you) by participating in our Escape the Symposium Virtual Game.

Escape the Symposium - Play Here!

Schedule and Session Details

September 27th – mEducation Alliance Member Day 

  • Networking and professional development for mEducation Alliance member institutions.

September 28th – 30th – The Symposium 

  • Plenary and Featured Panels: These sessions featured global and local EdTech for FLN thought-leaders and innovators. 
  • Video Showcase: Presenter videos are available to watch, as well as Session Recordings on the Foundational Literacy and Numeracy Video Showcase page.  
  • Gallery walks: Participants virtually moved from presenter station-to-station. 
  • Unconference: These interactive networking sessions allowed for meaningful dialogue around demand-driven topics. 
  • EdTech Hub Research Hour: Co-hosted with EdTech Hub, this track included sessions on promising FLN research including:
    • Technology to support personalized learning and teaching at the right level of the student
    • In-service TPD, structured pedagogy, and technology
    • Girls’ education and technology
  • Open Educational Resources (OERs) for FLN Clinics: A deep dive examination of various opportunities and challenges for OER use for FLN. 
  • Innovator Showcase: A virtual exhibit space for Symposia sponsors and collaborators including those affiliated with our Math Power! and Literacy League initiatives. 
  • FLN EdTech Investors Panel: We invited donors, foundations, and other investors who fund EdTech for FLN initiatives to speak about their areas of priority and the best way to attract their funding. 
View the Full Schedule Here

Thank you to our sponsors!

EdTech Hub
RTI
Hempel Foundation
NBA
Enuma
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ProFuturo
Chemonics
Lock Paper Scissors

The Mobiles for Education (mEducation) Alliance is a 501(c)3 non-profit focused on the evidence-driven and sustainable role of technology in education to advance quality educational outcomes. Initially formed in 2010, the mEducation Alliance is a unique, multi-stakeholder convening platform for government and donor policymakers, other investors, researchers, and practitioners to work together, particularly in lower-resource, developing country contexts. For more information about the Alliance, including about our signature activities, visit the organization web page. Read Full Disclosure and Policy Statement Here

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Jax Chaudhry

Jax Chaudhry leads Project Invent, a national nonprofit that empowers youth with future ready mindsets for individual success and global impact, through invention. Originally from the Southside of Chicago, Jax loves working with students, families and partners to ensure every student can attain success as they define it. For more than 10 years, she has worked with elementary schools, high schools, education nonprofits and led regional teams and operations to ensure student success.

Michael Leventhal

Kenneth Y T Lim operates at the intersection of neuroergonomics, the learning scienceMichael Leventhal is co-founder of RobotsMali, a pedagogical and AI4D laboratory and STEM education center in Bamako, Mali. RobotsMali has trained thousands of students from elementary school to high school in computer science, robotics, and artificial intelligence, coached national robotics teams that have won 32 medals in international competitions, and developed technologies using AI and robotics for the social and economic development of Mali. Before becoming an educator in Mali, Michael worked as a technologist in Silicon Valley.s, and cognitive psychology. In 2023, he and his team were identified by UNESCO to share their work on the affordances of Generative AI for meaningful teaching and learning, during UNESCO’s first annual flagship event Digital Learning Week, international forum on the implications of Generative AI for education, in the session on ‘Preparing students and teachers for responsible use of AI’.

Enouce Ndeche

Enouce Ndeche is the founder and Director of Vijana Amani Pamoja ,VAP a community scheme based in Nairobi Kenya that uses the power and the popularity of the game of soccer/football as a catalyst for social, educational and economic empowerment.Enouce holds a degree in sociology from Egerton university and he is also the 2020 individual award recipient “Diversity and Inclusion Eminent Leader Award Enouce is also a certified Sports Philanthropy and Executive, George Washington University and is a 2023 Gratitude Network fellow.

Kenneth Y T Lim

Kenneth Y T Lim operates at the intersection of neuroergonomics, the learning sciences, and cognitive psychology. In 2023, he and his team were identified by UNESCO to share their work on the affordances of Generative AI for meaningful teaching and learning, during UNESCO’s first annual flagship event Digital Learning Week, international forum on the implications of Generative AI for education, in the session on ‘Preparing students and teachers for responsible use of AI’.