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ORGANIZATION: American Youth Literacy Foundation
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Have you ever wanted to do something AMAZING to change the world but didn't know where to start? Here is an opportunity to help underprivileged children, to help under-served children, to help ALL children. The American Youth Literacy Foundation is working to reverse the Literacy Crisis and, by extension, the Education Crisis in America by fundamentally improving the way reading is taught to kids. Our organization is an established, seven year old 501 c 3 charitable non-profit based in Philadelphia, (Collegeville) PA. We are competing in the $7 million XPrize for Adult literacy sponsored by the Barbara Bush Foundation and Dollar General. This xprize is a global competition to design a way to teach illiterate adults how to read using a tablet based application. Our mission over the next 18 months is to build this application, adapting our reading curriculum to a digital format, testing in real world learning labaratories, creating new curriculum, and managing a team of people to bring this app to fruition. We are looking for people with backgrounds in language and linguistics, literacy, research and general admin. The activities you'll engage in will be diverse: research, analysis, admin, social media, to name a few, and depending on your skills and interests. The more you understand linguistics and literacy, the more you'll get involved in helping us prototype and test, gather and analyze data related to our digital curriculum.
You can make a huge difference in helping us solve the literacy crisis by joining our XPrize volunteer team. This is going to be an incredibly exciting and uplifting undertaking. If this is something that you feel you could do well at and want to get involved in then please reply today. We look forward to hearing from you : )
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Location:
10 N MAIN ST, Phoenixville, PA 19460, US
Mission Statement
The Vision of FUNetix is: UNIVERSAL LITERACY. The Mission of FUNetix is: Deliver a free smartphone app that will make that vision happen. Think of what it would mean if EVERY child could learn how to read from a smartphone in 12 hours! The mission of FUNetix is simple: get the app out! Get the FUNetix 12 hours Reading App out to America's children through smartphones, laptops, desktops, tablets, and classrooms. Get the app out through partnerships with publishing companies, schools, NGOs, parents, teachers, corporations and federal, state and local governments. Universal literacy is within reach because FUNetix is able to teach reading in a way that it has never been taught before, and with a speed that has never been conceived of before. FUNetix is here, and if your child is ready, we're ready. You can start learning how to read in 12 hours, today!
Description
FUNetix is a patented, science-based, and incredibly simplified way of teaching reading to children that's available to parents and children anywhere in the United States and anywhere in the world. The FUNetix 12 hours Reading App is available in the App Store, Google Play store and Amazon App store.
FUNetix is 19-years-new, but in some ways, it is more than 2,000 years old.
Indeed, the patented FUNetix Reading Decoding System is rooted in an ancient methodology that shows readers how to see the hidden sounds in every word.
FUNetix earned its patent by borrowing the time-tested method called "diacritics" (which was developed more than 2,000 years ago by the Greeks, and adopted more than 1,000 years ago by the Hebrew and Arabic languages, to teach ALL children how to read those languages), and uniquely, completely and systematically applying it to English in a child-friendly and simple way.
FUNetix teaches children how to "map" or "marry" all 44 sounds of the English language to the letters and letter combinations that make up English words. This mapping (made easy by diacritics) takes all of the guesswork out of "sounding out" words.
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Mostly onlineLos Angeles, CA 90001
DATE POSTED
November 13, 2015
SKILLS
- Research
- Mentoring
- Literacy / Reading
- Teaching / Instruction
- Interactive/Social Media/SEO
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REQUIREMENTS
- Must be at least 16
- 5 hours / week