{"id":3017,"date":"2011-09-19T05:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-09-19T09:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2011-09-18T17:29:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T21:29:24","slug":"how-i-spent-my-summer-installment-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/09\/19\/how-i-spent-my-summer-installment-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How I spent my summer (installment 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Degraff-children-in-the-classroom-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Degraff-children-in-the-classroom-300x199\" title=\"Degraff-children-in-the-classroom-300x199\" width=\"100\" height=\"66\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3034\" \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/people\/faculty\/degraff\/index.html\">Michel DeGraff<\/a><\/strong> writes, &#8220;The greater part of my work this Summer was spent in the mountain village of Mat\u00e8nwa in <a href=\"http:\/\/g.co\/maps\/jcdcy \">La Gonave, Haiti,<\/a> working on my NSF-funded project on &#8216;Krey\u00f2l-based and technology-enhanced learning of math, science, reading and writing.&#8217;  (La Gonave is an island off the Haitian mainland.)  Much of my time there was spent playing with primary-school kids and helping develop and test computer-based games in Krey\u00f2l to enhance the understanding and practice of elementary mathematics.    I also worked on promoting an MIT initiative to help improve higher education in Haiti.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Some of this work was reported in the international news media this summer, including articles in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2011\/07\/24\/the_power_of_creole\/?page=full\">Boston Globe<\/a>,  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-latin-america-14534703\">BBC News<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/education-portal.com\/articles\/Expanding_Access_to_Education_Professor_Michel_DeGraff_Talks_About_His_Work_for_Haiti_at_MIT.html\">Education Portal<\/a>, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voicesfromhaiti.com\/inner-views\/michel-degraff-mit-linguistics-professor-our-word-is-our-bond\/\">Voices from Haiti<\/a> site.  A Krey\u00f2l version of that interview can be found halfway down the page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.voicesfromhaiti.com\/kreyol\">http:\/\/www.voicesfromhaiti.com\/kreyol<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michel DeGraff writes, &#8220;The greater part of my work this Summer was spent in the mountain village of Mat\u00e8nwa in La Gonave, Haiti, working on my NSF-funded project on &#8216;Krey\u00f2l-based and technology-enhanced learning of math, science, reading and writing.&#8217; (La Gonave is an island off the Haitian mainland.) Much of my time there was spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3035,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}