Supporting functional skills for prisoners using secure laptops in cell

Corail很高兴获得了Innovate UK颁发的包容性创新奖助金。这笔赠款将使我们能够进一步发展我们的细胞内笔记本电脑技术，以支持学习者提高他们的基本算力和识字能力，特别是那些有学习困难和/或残疾的人，如诵读困难和其他神经多样性需要。在英国，囚犯代表了一些在数字和教育方面最被排斥的人。许多囚犯年轻时没有接受过教育。61%的囚犯接受了1-3级(相当于小学英语)的英语读写能力评估。识字和算术能力差是再次犯罪的重要原因。41%的囚犯在释放后12个月内再次犯罪。这个项目将把数字牢房学习机会扩大到大多数监狱人口，这些人明显和重要地需要提高基本的算术和识字技能。我们将通过为囚犯开发数字牢房功能技能内容来实现这一点，供囚犯在CorOracle笔记本电脑上使用，包括：*基于监狱生活和囚犯经验的互动例子和练习、游戏化、动画和视频。*纳入数字神经多样性和阅读困难支持工具，包括文本到语音、屏幕覆盖、黑暗模式和显示优化。*开发数字诊断和分析工具来评估用户进展詹姆斯·特威德，Coracle的创始人兼首席执行官说：“提高职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罪的核心，正如2021年12月白皮书所阐述的那样。该项目为Coracle已经为监狱提供的技术增加了更多令人兴奋和必要的创新。这将使我们能够接触到监狱人口中最大的一部分，即那些有最大教育需求的人，他们的教育需求是以前没有人能够做到的。很难对像提高数字、计算和识字技能这样对离狱人员至关重要的东西进行经济价值评估。该项目将对监狱生活以及监狱后生活的方方面面产生积极影响，包括提高囚犯重新融入社会的能力，改善他们的就业前景，改善他们的应对能力，他们的心理健康和自尊，以及减少他们再次犯罪的机会。

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."