Mischief: supporting remote teaching in developing regions
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
One laptop per child: vision vs. reality
Communications of the ACM - One Laptop Per Child: Vision vs. Reality
Designing digital games for rural children: a study of traditional village games in India
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
StoryBank: mobile digital storytelling in a development context
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
An exploratory study of unsupervised mobile learning in rural India
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A survey to assess the potential of mobile phones as a learning platform for panama
CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
An evaluation of the use of ICT within primary education in malawi
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
Improving literacy in rural India: cellphone games in an after-school program
ICTD'09 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Information and communication technologies and development
Field testing mobile digital storytelling software in rural Kenya
Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human computer interaction with mobile devices and services
In class adoption of multimedia mobile phones by gender - results from a field study
INTERACT'11 Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-computer interaction - Volume Part II
Designed for work, but not from here: rural and remote perspectives on networked technology
Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference
Analysis of children's handwriting on touchscreen phones
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
Co-creating a digital 3D city with children
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
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Providing good education is one of the major challenges for humanity. In many developing regions in the world improving educational standards is seen as a central building block for improving socio-economic situation of society. Based on our research in Panama we report on how mobile phones can be used as educational tools. In contrast to personal computers mobile phones are widely available and in Panama over 80% of the children have access to phones. We report on four different studies building on one another. We conducted surveys, focus groups, and group interviews with several hundred teachers and pupils to assess opportunities, needs, and threads for using phones in teaching and learning. Based on the feedback received we created a set of use cases and finally evaluated these in a field study in a rural multigrade school in Panama. Our findings suggest that current phones with multimedia capabilities provide a valuable resource for teaching and learning across many subjects. In particular recording of audio and video, programs for drawing, and taking photos were used in very creative and constructive ways beyond the use cases envisioned by us and initial skepticism of parents turned into support.