SGER: Designing and Understanding Intergenerational Mobile Learning Communities

该项目开发和探索使用移动的技术，以支持代际扫盲经验，作为教育弱势儿童的一种方式。该项目探讨了与当地弱势青年在移动电话平台上分享阅读经验的问题，以便为在世界范围内推广廉价和普及的移动的技术的阅读经验制定原则和准则。这项研究有可能改变移动的电话的使用，使其朝着扫盲发展的方向发展，作为对目前使用移动电话进行通信的补充。这项研究的智力价值包括：理解小屏幕上的图像、文本和音频内容的设计，以支持儿童的识字发展;理解在贫困环境中考虑移动的手机的可用性因素时，有效的协作识字经验;以及探索当传统的课堂教学不可能或无法利用现有资源接触到学习者。该项目更广泛的影响是，有可能使其他学科的研究人员关注扫盲工作，并使其他城市和国家的弱势青年能够获得该项目开发的设计和内容。

This project develops and explores the use of mobile technologies to support intergenerational literacy experiences as a way to educate disadvantaged children. The project explores shared reading experiences on mobile phone platforms with local disadvantaged youths in order to develop principles and guidelines for a worldwide effort in distributing reading experiences on inexpensive and pervasive mobile technologies. This research has the potential to transform the use of mobile phones in the direction of literacy development as a complement to their current use for communication. The intellectual merit of this research comprises: an understanding of the design of image, text, and audio content on small screens to support literacy development in children; an understanding of effective collaborative literacy experiences when usability factors of mobile phones are considered in impoverished contexts; and an exploration of the opportunities provided by intergenerational learning when traditional classroom instruction is either not possible or has failed to reach learners with given resources. The broader impact of this project is the potential to focus researchers in other disciplines towards developing literacy, and the availability of the designs and content developed in this project to disadvantaged youths in other cities and countries.