The country betting on tablets to help its ailing students - BBC Africa
🇲🇼 These primary school children in Malawi have a digital teacher.
Malawi has free primary schools - but almost 90% of 10 year olds are unable to read properly. So the government is distributing electronic tablets to schools up and down the country.
Myra Anubi finds out how the software is helping kids learn maths and reading at their own speed and in their own language.
Tests have shown that literacy and numeracy are improving and the children come to school more often.
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