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Asia Society - ZON and PANWAPA
By bpace | July 11, 2008
This session showcased two new global and game-based learning opportunities for elementary students…
The Confucious Institute at Michigan State University has created a video game simulation to help students learn Chinese. The game is called ZON.
You advance in wealth in the game through acquisition of language skills.
45% of 10 year olds in the U.S. own or have regular access to a cell phone.
Sesame is now for the first time more focused on digital media than on television production. Very few digital programs aimed at 3-11 year olds has a specific educational focus.
Sesame has a new virtual world for 3-11 year olds called PANWAPA - “where kids shape the world”.
International Children’s Digital Library - ICDL - 150,000 pages of digitized books
Sesame Street Chinese is now being tested.
Sesame is working on building a Global Elementary Model:
(Asia Society, Cooney Center, Mott Foundation, iEARN, Apple ALI)
Learn more here… www.joanganzcooneycenter.org
iEARN was also a focus of this presentation.
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