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SUMMARY：
“妈妈再也不用担心我的学习”——自学APP
CONTENT：
What is the Global Learning X Prize?
It's a $15 million prize to develop software that takes children from illiteracy to literacy and numeracy in 18 months. In 2016 five finalist teams will each win $1 million and we'll load their software on to tablet computers, distribute them to different sites in East Africa and test them out. It's probably going to be in Tanzania, and teams will develop software in both Swahili and English. Kids have to learn in their native tongue because that's how you learn how to read. Based on the field tests, in 2019 we'll announce the winning team, which gets $10 million.
What inspired the competition?
There are around 300 million kids around the world who can't read or write a word after going to school. The enormity of the problem is such that you cannot possibly build enough schools and train enough teachers to teach these kids. Software is the future of learning. It can let kids teach themselves without a grown-up in the equation. The competing teams in this X Prize will need to come up with something that's independent not only of schools but of adults too.
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什么是全球学习X奖?
这是一个用于开发帮助孩子在18个月内具备识字算数能力的软件的竞赛，奖金高达1500万。2016年五支入围团队每对将获得100万的奖金，同时将把他们开发的软件装载到平板电脑上，然后分布到东非不同的地方进行检验。测试的地点可能会选在坦桑尼亚，团队开发软件的时候会选择斯瓦西里语和英语两种语言。孩子们必须以母语进行学习这也是我们学习阅读的方式。基于现场测试的结果，我们将在2019年公布获胜的团队，该团队将得到1000万的奖金。
举办这次竞赛的灵感是什么?
全世界大约有三亿不会读写的学龄前儿童。这一问题的严重性就在于无法建立足够的学校而且师资力量也不充足。软件教学的形式是未来的趋势。软件教学能帮助他们脱离成人的指导自学方程式等知识。这次参加X学习软件大赛的团队需要开发一种既不需要学校也不需要成年人指导的东西。