[kictanet] Kenya’s One Laptop Per Child Marketplace Center

[Walubengo J]

Funny,

this topic refused to go away. Anyone from Bungoma who can collaborate this beautiful pics @
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smallsolutionsbigideas

with an even better write up below?

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In the Bungoma district, up in the
hills one OLPC Kenya project has opened a marketplace center bringing
their One Laptop Per Child XO programs to any child who comes. On
weekends this center has been servicing 50 – 100 children since
last January. 

For children to really become
proficient in using technology for learning,  school classroom
allotted hours don’t fill the hunger that children have to master
the technology. For these students who are able to come to their
local marketplace center, hours spent on weekends accelerate learning
and engagement. Children come at 9 o’clock in the morning don’t
want to leave.  There are not enough laptops for all children to have
one to themselves.  These children are good at collaborating.  Now
they are proficient enough to create Scratch animations, use Turtle
Art, and Paint effectively and research issues on the internet.  The
leaders of the program are continuing to engage children in community
concerns, using the laptop to interview, video, photograph and
document local attitudes towards issues such as farming, HIV/AIDs,
and trash disposal. 

This team led by Fred Juma Wakasiaka
and Bonaventure Masika was started in 2009 building a program with a
small number of XO laptops. Three years later they have a strong
program with 6 – 8 trained teachers working in classrooms at three
schools during the week, at the markeplace on the weekends. The
access to the internet at the marketplace was helpful during last
fall’s teacher strike, as students were able to download archived
exams to prepare for their examinations.  the center.


walu.
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