Supporting functional skills for prisoners using secure laptops in cell

使用牢房内的安全笔记本电脑支持囚犯的功能技能

• 批准号: 10059612
• 金额: $ 6.37万
• 依托单位: CORACLE ONLINE LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10059612
• 关键词: Supporting; functional; skills; prisoners; using

Coracle is delighted to have been awarded an Inclusive Innovation Grant from Innovate UK. The grant will allow us to further develop our in cell laptops technology to support learners in improving their basic numeracy and literacy and particularly those with learning difficulties and/or disabilities such as dyslexia and other neurodiversity needs.Prisoners represent some of the most digitally and educationally excluded people in the UK. Many prisoners did not engage in education when young. 61% of prison entrants have English literacy assessments at entry levels 1-3 (equivalent to primary school English). Poor literacy and numeracy are significant causes of reoffending. 41% of prisoner leavers reoffend within 12 months of release.This project will extend digital in-cell learning opportunities to the majority of the prison population where there is a clear and significant need to improve basic numeracy and literacy skills.We will do this by developing digital in-cell functional skills content for prisoners to use on the Coracle laptops including:* Interactive examples and exercises, gamification, animations and video based on prison life and prisoners' experience.* Incorporating digital neurodiversity and dyslexia support tools including text to speech, screen overlays, dark mode and display optimisation.* Developing digital diagnostic and analytic tools to assess user progressionJames Tweed, Founder and CEO of Coracle said"Improved functional skills and digital literacy is at the core of the UK Government's drive to modernise prisons and reduce reoffending as laid out in the December 2021 white paper.This project adds further exciting and necessary innovations to the technology that Coracle already provides to prisons. It will allow us to reach the largest part of the prison population; those who have the greatest educational needs in a way that no one has been able to do previously.It is hard to put a financial value on something as fundamental to prison leavers as improved digital, numeracy and literacy skills. The project will impact positively on life in prison but also on all aspects of life after prison including increasing prisoners' ability to re-integrate into society, improving their employment prospects, their ability to cope, their mental health and self-esteem and reducing their chances of re-offending."

Coracle很高兴获得了Innovate UK的包容性创新资助。这笔拨款将允许我们进一步发展我们的手提电脑技术，以支持学习者提高他们的基本计算和读写能力，特别是那些有学习困难和/或残疾的人，如阅读障碍和其他神经多样性需求。囚犯代表了英国在数字和教育方面最受排斥的人群。许多囚犯年轻时没有受过教育。61%的监狱囚犯的英语读写能力评估为入门级1-3（相当于小学英语水平）。读写和计算能力差是导致再犯的重要原因。41%的刑满释放者在释放后的12个月内再次犯罪。该项目将把数字在牢房学习的机会扩大到大多数监狱人口，因为他们明显和显著地需要提高基本的计算和识字技能。为此，我们将为囚犯在Coracle笔记本电脑上开发数字牢房内功能技能内容，包括：*基于监狱生活和囚犯经历的交互式示例和练习、游戏化、动画和视频。*结合数字神经多样性和阅读障碍支持工具，包括文本到语音，屏幕覆盖，黑暗模式和显示优化。Coracle创始人兼首席执行官詹姆斯·特威德（james Tweed）表示：“正如2021年12月白皮书所述，提高功能技能和数字素养是英国政府推动监狱现代化和减少再犯的核心。这个项目为Coracle已经为监狱提供的技术增加了进一步令人兴奋和必要的创新。这将使我们能够接触到大部分监狱人口；这些人有最大的教育需求，这是以前没有人能做到的。对出狱人员来说，提高数字、计算和读写能力是非常重要的，很难给这些东西赋予经济价值。该项目将对监狱生活产生积极影响，也会对监狱后生活的各个方面产生积极影响，包括提高囚犯重新融入社会的能力，改善他们的就业前景，他们的应对能力，他们的心理健康和自尊，以及减少他们再次犯罪的机会。”