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‘One keypad per child’ lets schoolchildren share screen to learn math

The slogan is "one laptop per child." But it will be a long time before that is true everywhere in the world. Meanwhile, a new device aims to make a situation that is common in poor areas — one computer shared among many children — work better in school settings.

University of Washington computer science undergraduates have developed a system that lets up to four students share a single computer to do interactive math problems. Early tests show that elementary school students using the tool are able to share a single screen while working on problems at their own pace, effectively quadrupling the number of computers available for math exercises.

This month the team will test the device, named MultiLearn http://change.washington.edu/projects/multilearn , on 180 students who are attending two government-run elementary schools in rural India.

Hannah Hickey [email protected]

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