[kictanet] 6, 000 primary schools picked for free laptop project

[Edith Adera]

Great ideas Muraya. It occurred to me that the syllabus could even be produce in module form with quizzes after each module and a major test after each topic for self-pace learning, much like what is done for distance/online courses. This would be very useful for students to repeat topics that they found difficult at their own time.

Let the ideas flow.

Edith

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We cannot securely store or even stock books in classrooms and libraries. We should provide children with access to devices that can store ebooks (and save trees).

We need devices that can receive digital tv (educational media).

Children can watch animations on how blood flows through the human body or how germs replicate or how atoms are believed to function.

I do not understand pastoralism/pastoralists, but they need mobile education if they will not go to classrooms. Maybe then, they would ranch (and cattle rustle less) if they could ranch more.
On May 30, 2013 5:50 PM, "robert yawe" <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk<mailto:robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk>> wrote:
Makali,

I believe the same argument you are propagating was put forward when some forward looking government promised to replace the slate and chalk with exercise books and pencils.

Regards

"Reach for the moon, at the least you will get to the clouds"


Robert Yawe
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P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
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Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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This project is fraught with too many challenges and the jubilee admin should not proceed as if its survival and life depends on it. A radical decision needs to be made otherwise it will turn out to be its greatest undoing, and a political weapon.

There is urgent need for a reality check. If it was left to me, I would bury it overnight. Damn the political consequences. Reason must prevail over populism and sentimentalism. How many more urgent neeeds are there to fix our primary education - frm teachers to classrooms and basic things before you climb up the technology ladder? Elementary things first. Let's equip all secondary schools with computer labs before we escalate that to primary schools in the next phase (5yrs down the road)


Makali
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