Ethiopian kids who had never even seen a word learnt completely on their own with zero instruction how to read, write and hack android when left with a tablet for 5 months. http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/10/ethiopian-kids.php Regards, Harry Karanja Sent from my iPad On Apr 10, 2013, at 7:24 PM, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
James,
You answered your own question when you mentioned that your son shows you things about your iPad that even you did not know about all of which I expect he learned on his own and not in class.
Mark Zurkerberg is a self trained developer and Bill Gates only had basic introduction to computers which is most likely because he was introduced to computers later than Mark.
I suggest you find results of the "hole in the wall" experiment that was done by the founder n NIIT in India to get an appreciation of a childs ability to learn on its own and how they actually change a society. The hand washing campaign was successful because it was targeted at children in primary schools and went home and enforced the discipline in their parents and older siblings.
So this what I think we need is a two pronged approach where you have the computers introduced to both the standard 1 and form 1 students, @Walu, @Ndemo and @Hare how do we present our case to the powers that be and soon?
Regards
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 From: James Kimani <mwaura.kimani@gmail.com> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Wednesday, 10 April 2013, 16:37 Subject: Re: [kictanet] kictanet Digest, Vol 71, Issue 65
I highly think giving laptops to class 1 kids is not bad at all.My son uses my ipad very well and in most cases he teaches me new things.He is 4 yrs but he started using it when 2 yrs 9 months.My main problem is "who will teach the kids from village schools since even majority of teachers including their principals are computer illiterate?
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I have said this before and i fully agree with you Brian....
On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:05 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe <blongwe@gmail.com>wrote:
Ethiopia and Tunisia deliver high speed data over wireline while here in Kenya we have allowed France Telecom who have management of Telkom Kenya to basically neglect and "throw away" our copper plant - and yet it could be the basis for providing affordable high speed access to hundreds of thousands. The new government *must* review this counterproductive "strategic investment" from France. Preferably show them the door and let us rebuild our national carrier. Full story here http://ictafrica.info/ FullNews.php?id=8231<http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fictafrica.info%2FFullNews.php%3Fid%3D8231&h=6AQG9pG3RAQFMErU7Uu3mvEUPpn6e6H9D64HDcC36A89x5Q&s=1>
Best regards,
Brian
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