Watch: A digital pilot Reading Adventure Room launched at Levana Primary School

South Africa - Cape Town - 17 May 2023 - Living Through Learning launched the first digital pilot in a Reading Adventure Room at Levana Primary. Learners will be playing literacy games and reading stories on the tablets. A generous donation from Near Metrics made it possible for us to start the first pilot. For the pilot we have set up a big Pencil iPad Tower with 5 tablets and headsets. A game will be played to select the first ever 5 Grade 1 learners that will have the opportunity to engage with the digital content. On a daily basis, 160 Grade 1 learners rotate through the Reading Adventure Room. The aim with this pilot is to bridge the gap of the digital divide and give our learners the opportunity to explore pre-loaded literacy content in a digital form. The educators will be using this to aid the content already covered in their LTL workbooks. As part of the drive to cultivate the love of reading from a young age, the learners can share between tablets and storybooks in the mobile library corners. Photographer : Phando Jikelo / African News Agency (ANA)