{"id":13364,"date":"2020-04-13T05:57:10","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T09:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=13364"},"modified":"2020-04-12T19:00:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T23:00:58","slug":"degraff-mits-j-wel-connections-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2020\/04\/13\/degraff-mits-j-wel-connections-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"DeGraff @ MIT&#8217;s J-WEL Connections 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\"><a href=\"http:\/\/linguistics.mit.edu\/user\/degraff\/\">Prof. Michel DeGraff<\/a> (MIT Linguistics) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www-math.mit.edu\/~hrm\/\">Prof. Haynes Miller<\/a> (MIT Mathematics) participated in <a href=\"https:\/\/jwel.mit.edu\">MIT&#8217;s J-WEL Connections 2020 conference<\/a> and gave a progress report on the MIT-Haiti? Center for innovation in Haitian education. \u00a0This is a project for the crowdsourcing, curating and sharing of educational material in Haitian Creole (Krey\u00f2l) as a catalyst for active learning in Haiti, in all disciplines and at all levels. \u00a0The ultimate goal is to open up access to quality education in Haiti as a model for other communities in the Global South whose languages have been excluded from formal education. According to UNESCO, this linguistic barrier affects some 40% of the world&#8217;s population.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\"><a class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mithaiti\/posts\/1108988902785773\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mithaiti\/posts\/1108988902785773\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mithaiti\/posts\/1108988902785773<\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">WHAMIT readers are invited to subscribe to the Facebook page of the MIT-Haiti Initiative for future updates:<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" dir=\"auto\"><a class=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mithaiti\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mithaiti\/\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mithaiti\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prof. Michel DeGraff (MIT Linguistics) and Prof. Haynes Miller (MIT Mathematics) participated in MIT&#8217;s J-WEL Connections 2020 conference and gave a progress report on the MIT-Haiti? Center for innovation in Haitian education. \u00a0This is a project for the crowdsourcing, curating and sharing of educational material in Haitian Creole (Krey\u00f2l) as a catalyst for active learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13364"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13366,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13364\/revisions\/13366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}