Digital education and air monitoring projects win awards

An online mystery game in which student sleuths will monitor air pollution in South Central Los Angeles and in Cairo, Egypt, and a project using cell phones to teach English to children in India have won funding for two University of California, Berkeley, professors.

 

The air pollution project designed by Greg Niemeyer, a UC Berkeley associate professor in art practice and film studies, and the India experiment headed by John Canny, a UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer science, are among 17 projects recently chosen by the Digital Media and Learning Competition and funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.

 

(read complete press release at http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/02/25_macaward.shtml)