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Help Spread a Love of Math Worldwide by Financially Supporting the Math Power! Open Innovation Competition – Crowdfunding Campaign.

The mEducation Alliance and partners want to raise $50,000 to help bring math games to kids in developing countries.

The mEducation Alliance, partnering with globally recognized math-focused organizations and champions and other development partners, has launched a crowdfunding campaign for the Math Power! app competition.

Through this competition, we will be looking for technical applications which will enable the receipt, review, collation, and dissemination of math game descriptions, particularly to households typically found in low-resource developing country context. Importantly, we want this initiative to a) inspire and nurture kids to love playing math games and b) that these games advance identified learning goals. A successful crowd-funded campaign will enable us to provide incentive prizes to Math Power! app developers.

Please see our Math Power! page for more information, share news of this call, and consider supporting this crowdfunding campaign.

VVOB – Call for Expressions of Interest for a Learning Partnership: SCRATC2H for Rwanda 2050

The Supporting Coding Among Rwanda Adolescents and Teachers through the Curriculum and Clubs Heading (SCRATC2H) for Rwanda 2050 project is being implemented by VVOB in Rwanda and they are looking for a learning partner who will provide technical support for the project’s evaluation and learning strategy during the project timeline (2020-2022). For more information and to submit a proposal, you can find the full posting HERE. Proposals are due November 2, 2020 at 23:00 CEST. 

 
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The WantED section is the mEducation Alliance’s version of a “classified ads” in a traditional publication. Submissions can include the following, but are not limited to:

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Please let us know by sending no more than 5 lines of explanatory text and include any hypertext links, your institutional logo and/or photo you would like to include in a future mEducation Alliance publication. Email submissions with the subject heading “WantED…” to [email protected]. We will confirm receipt and let you know if your item has been selected for public dissemination.

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The mEducation Alliance is looking for sponsors for future issues of EdTech Connected. This eZine is unique in the world of EdTech for development. Through a digital sponsorship package, your organization will get noticed by our wide-reaching network of policymakers, practitioners, donors, and researchers around the world. Contact us about a digital sponsorship package at [email protected]. 

Future and illustrative themes for upcoming issues include: S.T.E.M and Digital Literacy, Youth Digital Champions, Grand Challenges in Education, Promising EdTech Research, and more!  

Support the mEducation Alliance’s EdTech Innovation Fund

The mEducation Alliance has a few signature activities in the works and we are looking for your support. In addition to Math Attacks! our team is working on the following: 

You can learn more about how to support these and other mEducation Alliance activities by visiting our Catalyzing page. 

The Mobiles for Education (mEducation) Alliance is a non-governmental organization 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.

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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’.