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**MAKING A DIFFERENCE** Doshi and Sarafโ€™s work started in December 2012, when they visited schools in the villages of Gadi, Khadki, and Vavar. Originally, they taught the students with their iPhones. **โ€œWe decided to use apps,โ€ Doshi says, โ€œbecause it is well known that kids learn things very quickly when content is provided in the form of multimedia, like songs, video, animations, and games.โ€** The two first tested their teaching model on a class of 25 fourth-grade students who did not know the English alphabet. They downloaded the ABC Song app and played the song for the class a few times. Next, they divided the students into groups of five and had each group use the iPhones to play with two of the appโ€™s games meant to teach students the alphabet. One game shows pictures of animals alo

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