SHARED LEARNING

摘要

Dion rodriguez andAbdelrahman Elsayed are sixth-graders at the Bronx Early College Academy (BECA). Both come from families for whom English is not their first language, and both have used the computers they received through the Computers for Youth (cfy.org) program to help their families improve their English skills. Dion's grandmother is still learning to speak English, and she and Dion practice vocabulary together using the CFY computer. Abdel's family is Egyptian and speaks Arabic. He uses the text-to-speech functionality on his CFY computer so that his family members, who understand English but have difficulty reading it, can "listen" to correspondence from the school.