[kictanet] Day 3:Ensuring Effective Implementation of the Laptop Project - The Key Variables :How would content be delivered and assessed? (Administrative & Institutional infrastructures at primary school levels)

[Walubengo J]

@Barrack,

Apologies since I only have the challenges but have not figured out the Solutions  regarding delivery and assessment. 

Here are the challenges on Delivery/Assessment:
i) Assuming we have the content, are the teachers in-sync with the same content in order to deliver
ii) What of the "die-hard" manual or analog teachers (and we have them even at University level), how do we get them to integrate ICTs in their teaching?
iii) How would we assess (do we want to assess?) knowledge/skills acquired?
 
Here are the Institutional Challenges (most of which have been publicly and widely mentioned)
i) If content is now digital and adopted by teachers, what happens to those pupils who will have lost their laptops? Are they ignored or teacher goes back to manual for their sake.
ii) How do we even tell which laptop belongs to which pupil? Ofcourse the serial numbers would do, but imagine the time consumed each morning solving "laptop" disputes :-) 

iii) Do we have some Techies at primary school level to troubleshoot the simple problems assosciated with using technology(e.g software deleted, laptop hangs, etc)


The easiest answer to all these problems is ofcourse to declare that teachers/administrators are not needed and pupils will do their thing. Just give them the laptops.

walu.



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Subject: [kictanet] Day 3:Ensuring Effective Implementation of the Laptop Project - The Key Variables :How would content be delivered and assessed? (Administrative & Institutional infrastructures at primary school levels)
 

Listers,

Day two focused on sources of content , many thanks to those who have
contributed the thread is still open. Below please find the theme for
day three which is a build up on todays discussion:
How would content be delivered and assessed? (Administrative &
Institutional infrastructures at primary school levels)

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