<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div></div><div>Daktari,</div><div><br></div><div>The mode of education is going the technology way which means that it will soon fall within your docket which suggests that you must get abreast of what is happening especially being an academician the benefits of the MIT open learning and KhanAcademy.</div><div><br></div><div>MIT stopped wasting parents/students funds by running formal bridging courses and instead placed the lectures online. We are wasting a lot of parents funds by running formal bringing classes a system like the MIT and Khan online training can solve this issue. </div><div><br></div><div>KIE is busy barking up the wrong tree as the playing field has changed, you once clearly indicated that during a lecture only 20% grasp the concept immediately and I beg to add
that another 10% will pick it from the assignment/homework and maybe another 10% by reading the notes or text book leaving an "acceptable" 60% left behind</div><div><br></div><div>If there is no text book for the students to refer then another 10% are left behind and if there was no exercise book to write notes then there goes another 10% bringing the fallout rate to 80%. </div><div><br></div><div>Ooops, almost forgot, and if there is no teacher able to teach the subject then there goes the remaining 20% which gives us a fallout rate of 100%.</div><div><br></div><div>What KhanAcademy is doing is what radio lessons did for those needy schools that have a shortage of teachers be it Lokitaung, Mukuru kwa Njenga or Kendu Bay.</div><div><br></div><div>Mine is to say that instead of us spending millions at talk shops misguiding young developers about how they will become millionaires by writing applications for apple store, ovi store or samsung store
yet the opportunities lie more in home grown and consumed solutions. </div><div><br></div><div>Khan is not charging for his content so why not take advantage of that situation and begin to level the education playing field as we work towards including our own content. </div><div><br></div><div>I am sure many of you did not watch the video in full or with the attention required which explains some of the posts, Khan says the model has changed what was class work is now homework and what was homework is now classwork, paradigm shift.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>PS. A recent study found that American students failed miserably in Maths and Science compared to students in other <br> </div>Robert Yawe<br>KAY System Technologies Ltd<br>Phoenix House, 6th Floor<br>P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200<br>Kenya<br><br><div>Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york,
times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> "bitange@jambo.co.ke" <bitange@jambo.co.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk>; kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tue, 12 July, 2011 0:47:44<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [kictanet] Khan; solution to teacher shortage<br></font><br>Robert,<br>You should have taken your thoughts further in a way that can impact our future. If I were you, I would bring the issue of data centers and mash it with video content. The conclusions would be that going forward
we need lots of storage space. This means investment opportunity.<br><br>I look at FPE as the greatest opportunity to push for automation to not only increase transparency but traceability. It is a futile exercise for a learned person like you to sound helpless. Often it is a problem that creates an opportunity and if we fail to exploit it, it will happen again in which we are ALL considered unlearned.<br><br>Ndemo.<br><br><br>Sent from my BlackBerry®<br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: robert yawe <<a ymailto="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk" href="mailto:robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk">robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk</a>><br>Sender: kictanet-bounces+bitange=<a ymailto="mailto:jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke" href="mailto:jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke">jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a><br>Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:43:02 <br>To: <<a ymailto="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke" href="mailto:bitange@jambo.co.ke">bitange@jambo.co.ke</a>><br>Cc:
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