In November 2010, Worldreader.org began the first-ever large-scale pilot of e-readers in the developing world, putting local books and Amazon.com Kindles into the hands of 500 teachers and students. This is what happened.
Raw footage from iREAD Pilot study: Mr. Francis Kwaku's Social Studies Class in Presby Jr High School, Day 3 of e-reader introduction. What's interesting is what doesn't happen: the e-readers don't require a change in his teaching style.
Lisa Lovatt-Smith, Founder of OrphanAid Africa in Ghana, talks about Worldreader.org's challenges to using e-readers to bring books to the developing world.
Worldreader launched the first e-reader project in Africa at OrphanAid Africa School in Ghana in 2010, which seek to evaluate the potential of digital reading in developing world classrooms.