USAid launches technology-based reading program

The United States Agency for International Development (USAid), through its ABC+: Advancing Basic Education in the Philippines and All Children Reading-Philippines projects, and the Bangsamoro Ministry of Basic, Higher, and Technical Education (MBHTE) recently launched the Beginning Reading Program for learners in Cotabato City and Maguindanao.

This technology-based program uses tablets and Learn Kernels, or low-cost electronic tablets that can be used without Wi-Fi, to help children in Kindergarten to Grade 3 learn to read. Each device includes early grade reading materials and video-based reading modules in Magindanawn, co-developed by USAid and the Bangsamoro MBHTE.