Dear friends of GLEN World, Hope you and your loved ones are safe and healthy. What a year this has been! As the scope of the pandemic started becoming clear early this year, we decided to double down on our efforts to make our learning content globally accessible to children stuck at homes everywhere. As […]
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Our flagship learning app, GLEN Learn, was piloted at the Isla Vista Youth Project (IVYP) Children’s Center in Goleta, California from November 2019 to March 2020. IVYP serves a large fraction of families with English Learners (ELs) in Santa Barbara, California, and has decades of experience providing a diverse set of educational and social programs
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We are excited to announce the public release of our GLEN Books app: available for free as an Android app on the Google Play Store and an iOS app on the Apple App Store! GLEN Books features a collection of illustrated children’s storybooks in English and Spanish, narrated (by our expert storytellers!) with synchronized text-highlight
While we are charting exciting new research territory with our goal of enabling “zero to reading” with minimal skilled supervision, our efforts are firmly grounded in decades of research in language learning and sociocultural psychology. Our team includes well-established ISLA and dual language learner education researchers from UC Santa Barbara and Carnegie Mellon University —
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Dear friends of GLEN World, Season’s greetings! As the holiday season gets under way, we thought it is a good time to share with you the progress that GLEN World has made in 2019, which has laid the groundwork for an exciting 2020. Our journey to helping bridge the literacy divide continues apace…here are a
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A key advantage of digital learning is that we can use the data collected during the process of learning, not just to drive personalized adaptation of the learning content presented to the child in a given moment, but also to derive learning analytics for individuals and groups that can be used for longer-term understanding and
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We are excited to announce our partnership with Isla Vista Youth Projects (IVYP), a grassroots organization in Goleta, California with decades of experience in providing a diversity of educational and social programs for children in the community regardless of income. The passion and commitment of the IVYP team, their deep roots in the community, and
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Our early pilots in California and India have been critical in shaping our dev plan, while also indicating that there is a strong “product-market” fit between our vision and the reality that many children are struggling with. Santa Barbara, CA While our current content emphasizes guided learning, we had started with a free-choice format in
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Our flagship app, GLEN Learn, is structured as a set of lessons aimed at guiding a child from “zero to reading,” with heavy use of imagery and audio to create an immersive environment for literacy. The first step in this process is vocabulary acquisition. Once a child knows about 90% of the words in a
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“Zero” means that we do not assume prior exposure to English, or indeed, to any other language. “Zero to reading” means guiding a child from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.” There is a significant research literature on “Instructed Second Language Acquisition,” or more simply, how to teach languages. This literature tells us that
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In today’s globalized world, proficiency in English is the key to educational and economic opportunity. Our mission at GLEN (GLobal ENglish) World is to scale English literacy to unlock these opportunities for every child. The need for scaling is clear. Even in an English speaking country like the United States, a significant percentage of schoolchildren
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