I totally agree with Walu.
Something must be changed in our education system to allow for
creativity and ‘hunger’ for additional knowledge in addition to ‘drilling’
the youth to pass exams.
Rad has said that Kenya is leading in Africa on the use of
Facebook! The question is – what information is being exchanged? Are the
youth (graduates) aware that Facebook has other useful content in addition to socialization?
Hmmm
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i agree. its not awareness...i remember pushing another
similar challenge from Microsoft, "Imagine Cup 2009" at Multimedia
University. It got a serious mute response...i think our students from
primary school are drilled to focus on and pass exams....anything that has
little or no impact on their exam tends to be neglected.
I do not believe awareness is
an issue. I recall reading some statistics some time back to the effect that
Kenya is one of the heaviest facebook users in Africa. It is the same
internet. Why are we unable to capitalize on it? The challange has been in
the public domain for years! On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:29 AM, waudo siganga <emailsignet@mailcan.com>
wrote: Hi
Rad! Is the awareness of such opportunities done? Maybe one needs to raise
the alert before rather than after the horse bolts!? Kind
Regards,
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