KidSmart case studies and Travelling Toys report now available
Fifteen case studies in 18 languages on the impact of the KidSmart programme on children with special educational needs, and a report on the Traveling Toys inter-cultural project in early education have recently been published. Both projects are funded by IBM.
The KidSmart Early Learning Program integrates interactive teaching and learning activities using technology into the pre-school curricula. The programme is now being implemented in 60 countries internationally, serving more than 2 million children from remote geographic areas to underprivileged areas of town and cities.
Now a booklet focusing on the impact of KidSmart on children with special educational needs has been published in 18 languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech, Slovakian, Polish, Romanian, Turkish, Russian and Hebrew). It features 15 case studies from a number of European countries plus Israel and South Africa.
The reports are in the Insight Library (English version) and can be download here (in all the 18 available languages):
CZ DA DE EN ES FI FR HE IT NL NO PL PT RO RU SE SK TR
Traveling Toys is an inter-cultural project in early education covering 13 European countries especially meant in support of the 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue. As well as the schoolchildren engaging in this dialogue, the Travelling Toys project allows teachers in the participating countries the opportunity to share and exchange their teaching and learning methods. Download the project report here.
Further information:
- KidSmart Early Learning Program :
www.ibm.com/ibm/ibmgives/grant/education/programs/kidsmart.shtml
- Traveling Toys:
www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/kid_smart.shtml
- 2008 European Year of Intercultural Dialogue
http://ec.europa.eu/culture/portal/events/current/dialogue2008_en.htm