MELBOURNE, Australia — World Mosaic assisted Mary MacKillop Today to feature the EdTech for Early Learning (ETEL) initiative at the inaugural Development and Education (DevEd) Conference, held in Melbourne in November, bringing together Government, NGO and education participants from thirty countries across the Asia-Pacific and beyond.

The presentation set out what ETEL has achieved in Timor-Leste and, more importantly, what other jurisdictions can take from it: Human-Centred Design, teachers as orchestrators of playful learning, offline-tolerant technology built for the devices that families actually own, and local illustrations that let children see their own world in their learning. Several delegations asked the same question afterwards: could this work in our context? The honest answer, and the whole point of Human Centred Design, is that the method travels even when the content should not.

World Mosaic thanks its partners, school communities and team across Australia, India and Timor-Leste.