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Improve your skills in Math, Reading, or English. Click and download any or all of the apps below and start learning today!

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1) Download the FREE app
2) Complete three (3) lessons
3) Confirm with LSW staff
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The Apps

Learning Upgrade

Students of all ages and abilities can successfully improve and master basic math, English, and reading skills with this app! Each lesson provides practice problems accompanied by intervention and remediation with multimedia supports. The Learning Upgrade curriculum includes engaging songs, videos, and games along with lessons. With content ranging from beginner to intermediate, this app is ideal for sharing with your family for fun-filled learning and practice!

Enter 2255 for the Promo Code/School ID

Cell-Ed

This app simulates texting with a coach to learn and practice basic and intermediate-level skills. The English on the Go course allows users to practice phonics, vocabulary, and reading skills in short segments. The Skill Builder course is perfect for pre-high school equivalency work in reading, writing, social studies, and math.

Enter 2255 for the PIN code

Amrita Learning

Specifically designed for adults, the Amrita Learning app is an excellent tool for all levels of readers. Lessons range from learning letter-sounds through multi-page stories and articles, with vocabulary support in English and Spanish. The Amrita reading curriculum features a series of stories interwoven with factual Life Skills passages, learning games, multisensory activities, and music within the reading passages. Amrita’s Reading Library is packed with high-interest stories and articles. This app is a fantastic way to learn, build, and practice with vocabulary, comprehension, and reading skills in a supportive, easy-to-use format.

Enter 2255 for the Community Referral Code

Codex: The Lost Words of Atlantis Game

This app is formatted as a compelling game storyline so learners are solving challenges or helping game characters solve challenges as they learn. The core gameplay revolves around crafting English phonemes, onset-rime patterns, and sight words to “decode” an ancient alien language. The player builds phonemes and words to unlock secret locations inside major archeological sites around the world as they discover the secrets hidden at Atlantis. This game helps them see and learn more about real-world areas outside their current city, all while learning and practicing basic reading skills.

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Learn free. Learn anywhere.

Literacy Services of Wisconsin and YWCA Southeast Wisconsin have teamed up to help enable one million adult learners to acquire the skills they need to lead more empowered lives through the use of technology. As part of the $1 Million Adult Literacy XPRIZE Communities Competition, we are pleased to present innovative mobile apps for adults to learn how to read and build language skills in an easy, convenient, private, and effective way. 

 

The Competition

The $7 million Barbara Bush Foundation Adult Literacy XPRIZE presented by Dollar General Literacy Foundation is a global competition challenging teams to develop mobile applications for existing smart devices that result in the greatest increase in literacy skills among participating adult learners in just 12 months.

Team MKE

Milwaukee Knowledge Exchange (MKE) brings together Literacy Services and the YWCA Southeast Wisconsin to maximize the scope and reach of the X-prize applications to adults with academic needs and those facing barriers in southeast Wisconsin. MKE collectively serves 1,700 adult students each year and accounts for over 40% of the GED/HSED outcomes in the region. By joining forces, we hope to maximize the distribution and impact of the educational apps designed specifically for adults.

Press Release

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