Warm Greetings! Thank you for the updates! For those who may wish to engage in the education reforms conversation within the community (school-kids, parents, education entrepreneurs, teachers), please find details below on the Kawangware Nairobi forum. It will be particularly interesting to see the outputs on the tech element from the host community's perspective. PS: No RSVP required. If you wish to carry your tech gadgets along to the venue, feel free. Please note no electricity, no wi-fi thus carry your powered gadgets. Plenty of sunshine! Blessed day. Regards/Wangari --- Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth". YEES! PROGRAM (No RSVP Required) Dear Community Partner in Learning, RE: JOIN KENYA'S CURRICULUM REFORMS BY THE KENYA INSTITUTE FOR CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT (KICD) – KAWANGWARE COMMUNITY PARTNERS FOR THE NEXT-GENERATION OF 21ST CENTURY LEARNERS NOW! (CP21N!) Greetings with the joy of our Lord Jesus Christ to you from our school fraternity and host community! "Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world" – Nelson Mandela, 1919-2013 We invite you to our next Community Partners (Kawangware Dagoretti) Maoni Forum whose details are below: Venue: VIGIL SCHOOL | Directions: BEHIND KBS DEPOT (46) | Date: Thursday, February 11, 2016 |Time: 0830 – 1130am CP21Now! is an open maoni "discussion" platform , a partnership of stakeholders within our local school community, a discussion forum coordinated by the YEES! Program and built on the network of enterprising and sustainable schools. As an open community, CP21Now! brings together the whole-school ecosystem; school-kids, teachers, administrators, educators, parents, institutions, local government, CBOs, NGOs and host community members all with an interest in the next-generation. We believe in 360degree learning; from home and more than classroom for the next-generation now! The Kenyan education system is undergoing a revolution and YEES!, you are invited to be part of it. As a major player in the education sector within our local community, your input is valuable. The Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development (KICD) has made a call for submissions by the public on curriculum reforms for basic education and teacher education. By conducting a national needs assessment study, KICD invites your views. This Forum will collect views for submission. Why will you consider joining us for this Maoni Forum? Because education reform is not just a technical process but a social process too! Because the next-generation matters to you; because you are part of our local community, because you are an education entrepreneur, because you are a parent to a school-kid, because you are a future employer, because you are a school-kid now, because you are a teacher for the future school-kid, because Africa matters! "Young people must take it upon themselves to ensure that they receive the highest education possible so that they can represent us well in future as future leaders." – Nelson Mandela, 1919-2013We remain yours, Creating the Next Generation of Africa's Entrepreneur Citizen Leaders Now! God bless you! On Tuesday, 9 February 2016, 15:56, Simeon Oriko via kictanet <[email protected]> wrote: Listers, Allow me to share the progress on this. The ED10 Consortium hosted a thinkathon last Sunday afternoon on Kenya's curriculum reforms to build consensus on the ideas Kenyans had added here. Today, we are releasing the first draft of our memoranda for your review and comments. The memoranda is linked here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eit-zoFvyhWazUf3bOqb-MWMrupIq1wEQBerWcfr... We invite you to add comments on the ideas listed. We will accept comments until 9 pm Wednesday 10th February 2016. We will incorporate all feedback from the comments and finally submit this Memoranda to the Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development on Thursday 11th February 2016. Please share this link and opportunity with your networks. We encourage you to post on social media as well with the #CurriculumReformsKE hashtag. Looking forward to amplifying your voices in this curriculum reform process. Kind Regards, Simeon Oriko (for and on behalf of the ED10 team) WANGARI KABIRU February6, 2016 at 05:35 Warm Greetings Simeon, Pray you are very well. All the best with the talkathon on the curriculum reforms. There is was a great article this week in the People Daily by a Vivere Nandiemo - a teacher in Kuria East "Current school curriculum is not the problem, delivery is". Delivery is done by teachers whose standard even with a said "best curriculum" determine the outcome. Have a blessed day. Regards/Wangari --- Pray God Bless. 2013Wangari circa - "Being of the Light, We are Restored Through Faith in Mind, Body and Spirit; We Manifest The Kingdom of God on Earth". On Friday, 5 February 2016, 17:37, Simeon Oriko via kictanet <[email protected]> wrote: Listers,Some of you may be aware that the Kenya Institute for Curriculum (KICD), has embarked on curriculum reforms for basic and teacher education. (View the curriculum development cycle here [PDF]).KICD is currently conducting a national needs assessment study whose findings will inform the reform process. KICD is thus calling for a submission of memoranda from the public.In response, the ED10 Consortium has created this document to crowdsource input and we will in turn organize your views and submit them as a joint memorandum for consideration by KICD.We are also hosting a thinkathon (consultative meeting) this Sunday, 7th February 2016 at iHub from 2pm-4pm. You may register for the event here. We hope to use this thinkathon to build consensus on issues and ideas raised at the meeting and on the document.I’m curious: what submissions can the tech industry contribute to this process?Kind Regards,Simeon Oriko | Digital and Innovation Strategist Web: www.mtotowajirani.com | Twitter: @SimeonOriko LinkedIn: ke.linkedin.com/in/simeonoriko Cell: +254 724 892 941 | Skype: simeonoriko _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/wangarikabiru%40yahoo.... The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications. Simeon Oriko February5, 2016 at 17:23 Listers,Some of you may be aware that the Kenya Institute for Curriculum (KICD), has embarked on curriculum reforms for basic and teacher education. (View the curriculum development cycle here [PDF]).KICD is currently conducting a national needs assessment study whose findings will inform the reform process. KICD is thus calling for a submission of memoranda from the public.In response, the ED10 Consortium has created this document to crowdsource input and we will in turn organize your views and submit them as a joint memorandum for consideration by KICD.We are also hosting a thinkathon (consultative meeting) this Sunday, 7th February 2016 at iHub from 2pm-4pm. You may register for the event here. We hope to use this thinkathon to build consensus on issues and ideas raised at the meeting and on the document.I’m curious: what submissions can the tech industry contribute to this process?Kind Regards,Simeon Oriko | Digital and Innovation Strategist Web: www.mtotowajirani.com | Twitter: @SimeonOriko LinkedIn: ke.linkedin.com/in/simeonoriko Cell: +254 724 892 941 | Skype: simeonoriko _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at https://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/wangarikabiru%40yahoo.... The Kenya ICT Action Network (KICTANet) is a multi-stakeholder platform for people and institutions interested and involved in ICT policy and regulation. The network aims to act as a catalyst for reform in the ICT sector in support of the national aim of ICT enabled growth and development. KICTANetiquette : Adhere to the same standards of acceptable behaviors online that you follow in real life: respect people's times and bandwidth, share knowledge, don't flame or abuse or personalize, respect privacy, do not spam, do not market your wares or qualifications.