[kictanet] Laptops for 2014 class 1 entrants - justified

[Mark Mwangi]

Listers,

http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Corporate+News/Kindles+replace+textbooks+in+Kisumu+school/-/539550/1958602/-/lmib98z/-/index.html

Wouldn't kindles be an affordable method of going about this digitisation?
Also fewer points of failure and ready available content.


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:13 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Hi Listers,
>
> As many of us continue to throw stones in the dark I have decided to
> acquire a lantern and in addition light it so that I have some semblance of
> visibility.
>
> My children, 3 of them, have the unfair advantage of living in a house
> with a PC ratio of 1.2:1 with dedicated internet access and electricity in
> the home which is a situation that I would like to see made available to
> all children across the social and geographical divide.
>
> Many of us believe that if such resources were to be made available to all
> and sundry then their own children will have to work harder to rise above
> the rest so they prefer to exclude as many other children so as to continue
> sheltering their progeny.
>
> This level of selfishness has been played out in may facets including
> wanting to have children from private primary schools given total and
> absolute access to National secondary schools therefore further
> marginalising those from maginalised regions, which is extremely scary when
> a majority of those advocating this where beneficiaries of regional
> representation at National schools and University programs.
>
> Back to my main point, my children are on holiday and they have been
> having too much fan playing kaati and warframe and with the burning of
> holiday classes they are not being forced to be in class during the holiday
> so I decided to use them to test the "blended" learning that I have been
> propagating in support of the Jubilee directive so I registered as a coach
> on Khan Academy and have been monitoring their activities remotely.
>
> See the attached reports and extrapolate it to class, school, division,
> district oops county and national level to appreciate how much better our
> education will become, as we sleep and fight over petty side shows the rest
> of the world is moving in this direction and as we are not an island we
> shall soon feel the effects.
>
> Teachers will become more accountable on a daily basis not after the class
> 8 results when all the students have failed and been relegated to perpetual
> poverty and no sensible corrective action can be taken, we moved from
> writing on the soil, to the slate then the exercise book the natural
> progression is an electronic device and trying to stop it is like
> "preventing a pregnant woman from giving birth - Raila Odinga on the new
> constitution".
>
> We either midwife this delivery or stand aside as attempting an abortion
> at this stage in time will likely be detrimental to both mother and child.
>
>
> Regards
>
>
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
>
> Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
>
>
>
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Regards,

Mark Mwangi

markmwangi.me.ke
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