(1112) A TABLET-BASED PUZZLE GAME TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF CHILDREN'S ILLITERACY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

摘要

Information technologies have an active role in the educational field today. In developed countries,education is enriched by the contribution of Information Technology (IT) because personal computers(PC) can help learning. At the same time, developing countries suffer from problems such as poorattendance rate at schools as well as poor literacy rate. To solve this problem, many schools areestablished by NGO. Although these schools provide education and support to such children, theyhave the problem of scarcity of teachers. Therefore we introduce tablet personal computers (TPC) inthis school to solve the problem. To solve the problem of children's illiteracy, we developed a tabletbasedpuzzle game for language learning. We tested this application in two NGO schools. In spite oftheir first use of TPCs, they became familiar with using them in about 10 minutes. This paperelucidates the usefulness of the TPC in educational field in developing countries and the problem ofintroducing TPC in order to effectively deal with the problem of illiteracy.