Visualizing innovation: digital solutions for accelerating and scaling foundational learning

• In Event: Poster Session 11
  In Poster Session: Visualizing innovation: digital solutions for accelerating and scaling foundational learning

Proposal

As efforts to address the global learning crisis intensify, digital innovations have emerged as powerful tools to accelerate foundational literacy and numeracy (FLN) outcomes across diverse contexts. This poster visually presents key areas where digital solutions are impacting foundational learning, focusing on learners, teachers, parents/caregivers, and education systems. Through images, infographics, and brief narratives, it offers a comprehensive view of how digital tools are reshaping education and contributing to the global education agenda.
Digital Solutions for Learners: This section highlights how digital platforms empower students to build literacy and numeracy skills, especially in low-resource settings. Visuals will feature digital learning apps, interactive e-learning platforms, and mobile solutions that engage students at their own pace, including gamified experiences and AI-driven personalized learning. Emphasis will be on equitable access for marginalized groups and the positive outcomes achieved in improving literacy and numeracy rates.
Digital Solutions for Teachers: Digital tools are crucial in scaling teacher development and improving instructional quality. This section will showcase online training modules, digital communities of practice, and data-driven dashboards that help teachers develop effective pedagogical skills. Examples will demonstrate real-time feedback, enhanced collaboration, and ongoing professional development, while also addressing the challenges of digital access in underserved areas and how offline content delivery helps bridge these gaps.
Digital Solutions for Parents and Caregivers: Engaging parents and caregivers is essential in a child's foundational learning journey. This section will demonstrate how digital tools support parental involvement through mobile apps that offer simple activities and platforms for communication between parents and teachers. The narrative will highlight the positive impact on student outcomes and efforts to ensure families with limited technology access can still participate in these digital interventions.
Digital Solutions for Education Systems: At the systems level, digital solutions enhance decision-making and efficiency in education. This section will focus on data dashboards, monitoring platforms, and integrated management systems that provide insights into student performance, teacher effectiveness, and resource allocation. Visuals will demonstrate how these tools support evidence-based reforms and promote equity in education by ensuring inclusive, representative data use.
Conclusion: The poster offers a visual exploration of how digital innovations support foundational learning across different education system levels. By focusing on learners, teachers, parents/caregivers, and systems, it invites discussions on the scalability, adaptability, and challenges of digital solutions. Ultimately, it provides insights into how education systems worldwide are leveraging technology to overcome foundational learning challenges and promote educational equity.

Authors

• Alyson Gombas, UNICEF

• Suman Sachdeva Ph.D, UNICEF