Tuesday, January 10, 2006

PlanetRead: Using Film to Boost Reading

PlanetRead: an organization seeking to improve literacy in India using same-language subtitling. By adding subtitles to Bollywood films and videos of popular folk songs, PlanetRead gives people who have low literacy skills regular reading practice.

As it expands, this approach has the potential to reach hundreds of millions of people. (via Google Foundation)



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