Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio
Listers, Uwezo has deveoped a visualization tool on the distribution of teachers in the country. If you carefully review this piece of open data, you will find that teachers had no case in the recent strike threat. What is disturbing is the growing number of decisions made without proper scientific methods. I am glad media tried to dismiss the teachers' case. What the public did not know is that once the contract teachers are confirmed, the same union officials will demand transfers for their relatives from marginal areas (often with teacher deficit) to surplus regions. They will then use marginal or deficit areas to ask for more recruitments. The cycle will continue. Further the union dues will increase but education in marginal areas will decline. Can we be ever embrace rational approaches to decision making especially on critical development programmes? Where I come from teachers have outsourced their services as they do their businesses or visit relatives in far flung areas as in the US. KNUT knows this and nobody bears responsibility on the declining standards. There is no performance apparisal and if it was ever introduced 50% of teachers will go home. Last year myself and three other friends randomly gave the past KCPE exam to 10 teachers in five districts, only one scored 350. We can do this on large scale but I doubt that the result will be any different. Can we stand up and be counted on this. Education is the foundation of any nation. Regards Ndemo. ---------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------- "easy access to the world" ---------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by Jambo MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------- "easy access to the world"
This is very saddening We randomly gave the past KCPE exam to 10 teachers in five districts, only one scored 350 - Bitange Ndemo On 22 September 2011 20:32, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
Listers, Uwezo has deveoped a visualization tool on the distribution of teachers in the country. If you carefully review this piece of open data, you will find that teachers had no case in the recent strike threat. What is disturbing is the growing number of decisions made without proper scientific methods.
I am glad media tried to dismiss the teachers' case. What the public did not know is that once the contract teachers are confirmed, the same union officials will demand transfers for their relatives from marginal areas (often with teacher deficit) to surplus regions. They will then use marginal or deficit areas to ask for more recruitments. The cycle will continue. Further the union dues will increase but education in marginal areas will decline.
Can we be ever embrace rational approaches to decision making especially on critical development programmes? Where I come from teachers have outsourced their services as they do their businesses or visit relatives in far flung areas as in the US. KNUT knows this and nobody bears responsibility on the declining standards. There is no performance apparisal and if it was ever introduced 50% of teachers will go home. Last year myself and three other friends randomly gave the past KCPE exam to 10 teachers in five districts, only one scored 350. We can do this on large scale but I doubt that the result will be any different. Can we stand up and be counted on this. Education is the foundation of any nation.
Regards
Ndemo.
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This is rather disheartening seeing as the media did not shop around for such data. The teachers officials are just doing what their predecessors did whether it belongs in the last century or not. The data should be marketed like any other product. The union would have no say in the face of cold hard data. On Sep 27, 2011 7:12 PM, "lordmwesh" <lordmwesh@gmail.com> wrote:
This is very saddening
We randomly gave the past KCPE exam to 10 teachers in five districts, only one scored 350 - Bitange Ndemo
On 22 September 2011 20:32, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
Listers, Uwezo has deveoped a visualization tool on the distribution of teachers in the country. If you carefully review this piece of open data, you will find that teachers had no case in the recent strike threat. What is disturbing is the growing number of decisions made without proper scientific methods.
I am glad media tried to dismiss the teachers' case. What the public did not know is that once the contract teachers are confirmed, the same union officials will demand transfers for their relatives from marginal areas (often with teacher deficit) to surplus regions. They will then use marginal or deficit areas to ask for more recruitments. The cycle will continue. Further the union dues will increase but education in marginal areas will decline.
Can we be ever embrace rational approaches to decision making especially on critical development programmes? Where I come from teachers have outsourced their services as they do their businesses or visit relatives in far flung areas as in the US. KNUT knows this and nobody bears responsibility on the declining standards. There is no performance apparisal and if it was ever introduced 50% of teachers will go home. Last year myself and three other friends randomly gave the past KCPE exam to 10 teachers in five districts, only one scored 350. We can do this on large scale but I doubt that the result will be any different. Can we stand up and be counted on this. Education is the foundation of any nation.
Regards
Ndemo.
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Should we try the school district/county management approach, where we appoint a district/county school CEO who recruits not based on KNUT/Tribal, etc demands, but rather based on the $$ power of the county region? Which is where electing the RIGHT governor comes in? Edwin From: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of Mark Mwangi Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 8:39 PM To: Edwin Cc: k-internetusers@bdix.net; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio This is rather disheartening seeing as the media did not shop around for such data. The teachers officials are just doing what their predecessors did whether it belongs in the last century or not. The data should be marketed like any other product. The union would have no say in the face of cold hard data. On Sep 27, 2011 7:12 PM, "lordmwesh" <lordmwesh@gmail.com> wrote:
This is very saddening
We randomly gave the past KCPE exam to 10 teachers in five districts, only one scored 350 - Bitange Ndemo
On 22 September 2011 20:32, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
Listers, Uwezo has deveoped a visualization tool on the distribution of teachers in the country. If you carefully review this piece of open data, you will find that teachers had no case in the recent strike threat. What is disturbing is the growing number of decisions made without proper scientific methods.
I am glad media tried to dismiss the teachers' case. What the public did not know is that once the contract teachers are confirmed, the same union officials will demand transfers for their relatives from marginal areas (often with teacher deficit) to surplus regions. They will then use marginal or deficit areas to ask for more recruitments. The cycle will continue. Further the union dues will increase but education in marginal areas will decline.
Can we be ever embrace rational approaches to decision making especially on critical development programmes? Where I come from teachers have outsourced their services as they do their businesses or visit relatives in far flung areas as in the US. KNUT knows this and nobody bears responsibility on the declining standards. There is no performance apparisal and if it was ever introduced 50% of teachers will go home. Last year myself and three other friends randomly gave the past KCPE exam to 10 teachers in five districts, only one scored 350. We can do this on large scale but I doubt that the result will be any different. Can we stand up and be counted on this. Education is the foundation of any nation.
Regards
Ndemo.
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Hi, The buck stops with us the ICT community, the journalists cannot help because their single degree does not give them the skills to be analytical. Keeping an issue on the forefront in the mass media domain is not possible but keeping an issue alive indefinitely online can be done so lets use the Opendata to shame KNUT and other unions and associations that keep feeding us male cow dung. Unfortunately I do not have the skills otherwise I would have developed a dashboard that gives the information in a way that any KBF would understand with time the mainstream media will have not choice but to carry the information. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: Mark Mwangi <mwangy@gmail.com> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: k-internetusers@bdix.net; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Tuesday, 27 September 2011, 20:39 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio This is rather disheartening seeing as the media did not shop around for such data. The teachers officials are just doing what their predecessors did whether it belongs in the last century or not. The data should be marketed like any other product. The union would have no say in the face of cold hard data. On Sep 27, 2011 7:12 PM, "lordmwesh" <lordmwesh@gmail.com> wrote:
This is very saddening
We randomly gave the past KCPE exam to 10 teachers in five districts, only one scored 350 - Bitange Ndemo
On 22 September 2011 20:32, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
Listers, Uwezo has deveoped a visualization tool on the distribution of teachers in the country. If you carefully review this piece of open data, you will find that teachers had no case in the recent strike threat. What is disturbing is the growing number of decisions made without proper scientific methods.
I am glad media tried to dismiss the teachers' case. What the public did not know is that once the contract teachers are confirmed, the same union officials will demand transfers for their relatives from marginal areas (often with teacher deficit) to surplus regions. They will then use marginal or deficit areas to ask for more recruitments. The cycle will continue. Further the union dues will increase but education in marginal areas will decline.
Can we be ever embrace rational approaches to decision making especially on critical development programmes? Where I come from teachers have outsourced their services as they do their businesses or visit relatives in far flung areas as in the US. KNUT knows this and nobody bears responsibility on the declining standards. There is no performance apparisal and if it was ever introduced 50% of teachers will go home. Last year myself and three other friends randomly gave the past KCPE exam to 10 teachers in five districts, only one scored 350. We can do this on large scale but I doubt that the result will be any different. Can we stand up and be counted on this. Education is the foundation of any nation.
Regards
Ndemo.
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"The buck stops with us the ICT community, the journalists cannot help because their single degree does not give them the skills to be analytical." - this statement is so perjorative and disparaging. How can u make such a generalised statement on this forum? Which journalists are single degree and what's so so unique about IT? You need to learn more about priorities and functions of media. Or start your own medium and write about IT and you will come to terms with some truths about media enterprise. David Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Sender: kictanet-bounces+dmakali=yahoo.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:29:18 To: <dmakali@yahoo.com> Reply-To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: k-internetusers@bdix.net<k-internetusers@bdix.net>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/dmakali%40yahoo.com 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.
Hi, The death of analytical journalism died when we made journalism a first degree instead of a post graduate diploma/degree as those with only a degree in journalism have no leg to stand on when writing "stories". Last week I read an article about how the installation of speed cameras will assist in reducing road carnage which was an extract from a speech given by some politician. If the journalist was an IT graduate with a post graduate diploma in journalism they would have been able to identify the political statements as unfounded and be able to give an alternative suggestion or analytical analysis to how to achieve the said objective. If he asked me I would have told him that installing RFID labels on the buses and distributed readers along the highways would be a more practical solution. We have been unable to install CCTV cameras to manage traffic on the 3 kilometre stretch from Nyayo Stadium round about to Museum Hill what is the likelihoods that we shall be able to cover the highway from Mombasa to Kisumu? I digress, the issue was that the journalists and the media owners are constantly failing us by copy pasting political statements instead of providing analysis and that was the genesis of my pejorative (contempt or distaste) and disparaging (belittling) statement, I apologise if I have pinched a raw nerve. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: "dmakali@yahoo.com" <dmakali@yahoo.com> To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: "k-internetusers@bdix.net" <k-internetusers@bdix.net>; kictanet <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Wednesday, 28 September 2011, 21:08 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio "The buck stops with us the ICT community, the journalists cannot help because their single degree does not give them the skills to be analytical." - this statement is so perjorative and disparaging. How can u make such a generalised statement on this forum? Which journalists are single degree and what's so so unique about IT? You need to learn more about priorities and functions of media. Or start your own medium and write about IT and you will come to terms with some truths about media enterprise. David Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Sender: kictanet-bounces+dmakali=yahoo.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2011 16:29:18 To: <dmakali@yahoo.com> Reply-To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: k-internetusers@bdix.net<k-internetusers@bdix.net>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/dmakali%40yahoo.com 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.
The US education system is hardly any better (when contrasted with peers with an equal HDI ranking). Over protection of teachers by unions, skewed incentive structures. I would recommend, for those who have the time, watching the documentary 'Waiting for Superman'. Though there are some controversies, a lot of the info is largely accurate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_superman At the end of the day, the problem with KNUT is that they defend incompetent teachers. TSC also is too inefficient to handle many of the complaints that come in. One personal issue I have had with the education system over the last few years. When in high school, I had a teacher. The role of the teacher is not to dictate notes, it's to teach. With a little innovation, any school can offer handouts with all the notes and text references for students, and spend the classes going through the material, engaging the students and ensuring proper learning of the content. However, our teachers have no qualms recycling notes for years on end. In Kenyatta University, one of the lecturers in the business school has not bothered changing his notes from 1990 (when a friend was in KU) to 2006 thereabouts (when I was in KU). The notes were a replica of the 1990 notes. An example of disruptive technology that is given in said notes was a 'radio'. 1925. Meanwhile, the PC, iPod, iPhone, Facebook, Google, iPad etc etc have been disruptive. No wonder we complain that our business people can't catch up. Or journalists. The training (even for IT graduates) is flawed. The education system needs to be revamped. Reworked. And perhaps, people should have a look at the fine work being done by the Aga Khan University (in their new Arusha Campus) to understand exactly how a curriculum should be built around technology and innovation... -- With Regards, Phares Kariuki | T: +254 720 406 093 | E: pkariuki@gmail.com | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares | B: http://www.kaboro.com/ |
Kudos Phares, That is what I call an in depth analysis of an issue and all for passion, now if those paid to write could develop such a passion. If media houses reached beyond their ivory towers they will realise that they can improve the quality of their content for a fraction of the cost they are currently incurring in producing mediocre articles and "stories". I am sure Phares and many others on this forum plus many others would be more than willing to provide input or even easier just post your needs here. Visit www.helpareporter.com, you do not need to keep recreating the wheel just design a better carriage. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: "k-internetusers@bdix.net" <k-internetusers@bdix.net>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Thursday, 29 September 2011, 18:10 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio The US education system is hardly any better (when contrasted with peers with an equal HDI ranking). Over protection of teachers by unions, skewed incentive structures. I would recommend, for those who have the time, watching the documentary 'Waiting for Superman'. Though there are some controversies, a lot of the info is largely accurate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_superman At the end of the day, the problem with KNUT is that they defend incompetent teachers. TSC also is too inefficient to handle many of the complaints that come in. One personal issue I have had with the education system over the last few years. When in high school, I had a teacher. The role of the teacher is not to dictate notes, it's to teach. With a little innovation, any school can offer handouts with all the notes and text references for students, and spend the classes going through the material, engaging the students and ensuring proper learning of the content. However, our teachers have no qualms recycling notes for years on end. In Kenyatta University, one of the lecturers in the business school has not bothered changing his notes from 1990 (when a friend was in KU) to 2006 thereabouts (when I was in KU). The notes were a replica of the 1990 notes. An example of disruptive technology that is given in said notes was a 'radio'. 1925. Meanwhile, the PC, iPod, iPhone, Facebook, Google, iPad etc etc have been disruptive. No wonder we complain that our business people can't catch up. Or journalists. The training (even for IT graduates) is flawed. The education system needs to be revamped. Reworked. And perhaps, people should have a look at the fine work being done by the Aga Khan University (in their new Arusha Campus) to understand exactly how a curriculum should be built around technology and innovation... -- With Regards, Phares Kariuki | T: +254 720 406 093 | E: pkariuki@gmail.com | Twitter: kaboro | Skype: kariukiphares | B: http://www.kaboro.com/ | _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/robertyawe%40yahoo.co.u... 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.
Not quite ICT related (unless we talk about spell checks) but to share experiences just like Phares, though relating to me as a parent that keeps some undeserving publishers in business, thanks to not so competent teachers that recommend text books. I have always complained to my kids' headmaster about the "High Flyer Series" which is published for Std 2 up to Std 8. From Std 4 I started noticing the really poor quality of the content - too many typos, APPALLING GRAMMAR/SPELLING (that really slays me), missing diagrams, etc etc. And each of these books costs kshs 400 and the teachers are always insistent that parent's buy the latest edition (I do not want to infer that the publishers hold a teachers' junket...but just saying....) I also take issue with other less established publishers. Last week I was looking at my daughter's Std 1 Social Studies book. It has abt 70 or so pages....on EACH page from 1 to 28 (which is the point I gave up in exasperation) there was an error (typos, grammatical, spelling (e.g. saddles instead of sandals), etc). And I was not counting punctuation errors.... *Anyway I agree, teaching standards have plummeted...* * * On 29 September 2011 18:10, Phares Kariuki <pkariuki@gmail.com> wrote:
The US education system is hardly any better (when contrasted with peers with an equal HDI ranking). Over protection of teachers by unions, skewed incentive structures. I would recommend, for those who have the time, watching the documentary 'Waiting for Superman'. Though there are some controversies, a lot of the info is largely accurate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waiting_for_superman
At the end of the day, the problem with KNUT is that they defend incompetent teachers. TSC also is too inefficient to handle many of the complaints that come in.
One personal issue I have had with the education system over the last few years. When in high school, I had a teacher. The role of the teacher is not to dictate notes, it's to teach. With a little innovation, any school can offer handouts with all the notes and text references for students, and spend the classes going through the material, engaging the students and ensuring proper learning of the content. However, our teachers have no qualms recycling notes for years on end. In Kenyatta University, one of the lecturers in the business school has not bothered changing his notes from 1990 (when a friend was in KU) to 2006 thereabouts (when I was in KU). The notes were a replica of the 1990 notes. An example of disruptive technology that is given in said notes was a 'radio'. 1925. Meanwhile, the PC, iPod, iPhone, Facebook, Google, iPad etc etc have been disruptive. No wonder we complain that our business people can't catch up. Or journalists. The training (even for IT graduates) is flawed. The education system needs to be revamped. Reworked. And perhaps, people should have a look at the fine work being done by the Aga Khan University (in their new Arusha Campus) to understand exactly how a curriculum should be built around technology and innovation...
-- With Regards,
Phares Kariuki
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It is our collective responsibility to do something about declining educational standards in our country. Can we make suggestions on way forward? I will take the responsibility of having the Education Ministry do something. Regards. Ndemo. Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: Francis Hook <francis.hook@gmail.com> Sender: kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 10:44:51 To: <bitange@jambo.co.ke> Cc: k-internetusers@bdix.net<k-internetusers@bdix.net>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/bitange%40jambo.co.ke 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.
I am not an educationist, but I would wish to add onto the recent announcement by the education ministry to post "county education directors: 1. The recruitment process must be public and rigorous (to ensure that the right people hired). 2. County government should be directed to allot a minimum $$ towards education to attract the best teachers and develop education programs in their counties supplementing any $$ allocations from the central govt. 3. Allow Counties to form local and international partnerships that will attract investment in the education sector (not sure if this is spelt out in our constitution or not). 4.More child development responsibilities (signing the diary, attending one on one interviews with teachers at least twice a term, etc )must be transferred to parents of children in public schools, just like is the case in many private schools My thoughts, Edwin -----Original Message----- From: kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:kictanet-bounces+eonchari=lynxbits.com@lists.kictanet.or.ke] On Behalf Of bitange@jambo.co.ke Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 6:24 PM To: Edwin Cc: k-internetusers@bdix.net; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio It is our collective responsibility to do something about declining educational standards in our country. Can we make suggestions on way forward? I will take the responsibility of having the Education Ministry do something. Regards. Ndemo. Sent from my BlackBerryR -----Original Message----- From: Francis Hook <francis.hook@gmail.com> Sender: kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 10:44:51 To: <bitange@jambo.co.ke> Cc: k-internetusers@bdix.net<k-internetusers@bdix.net>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/bitange%40jambo.co.ke 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. _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/eonchari%40lynxbits.com 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. ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.1809 / Virus Database: 2085/4538 - Release Date: 10/04/11
Dr. Ndemo, I believe the best input we as an industry can offer is how to improve the teaching standards with the use of technology to provide solutions to questions such as "how can we enable 100 students who are dependent on a single teacher?" When I attended the opening of the NI3 centre at the former Kenya Science Teachers College campus I noted a sign that read "Teaching aid development unit" which seemed derelict but I am sure it still has a budget allocation from someone within the ministry of education. What we need is to find out how such a division can be brought into the 21st century, as there is likely already budget allocated this can be up and running in a few months. KIE also has resources which can be leveraged upon to improve the delivery of content to the teacher across the country. We killed the radio lessons programme and blamed it on the costs, I propose that as we work on the revised media bill we include 2 hours per day of relevant educational programming as part of the 75% local content. Finally daktari, we know the solutions to all these problems, we have sat in multiple forums, seminars and brain storming sessions but we continue to suffer from analysis paralysis action needs to be taken. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: "bitange@jambo.co.ke" <bitange@jambo.co.ke> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: "k-internetusers@bdix.net" <k-internetusers@bdix.net>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 18:24 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio It is our collective responsibility to do something about declining educational standards in our country. Can we make suggestions on way forward? I will take the responsibility of having the Education Ministry do something. Regards. Ndemo. Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: Francis Hook <francis.hook@gmail.com> Sender: kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2011 10:44:51 To: <bitange@jambo.co.ke> Cc: k-internetusers@bdix.net<k-internetusers@bdix.net>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/bitange%40jambo.co.ke 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. _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/robertyawe%40yahoo.co.u... 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.
Robert, Thank you for this. We have given two digital channels to KIE. We have also offered for free two DTH channels. What is lacking is content and proper programming. I see only music and school plays on DTT. Can we crowd source content? Ndemo.
Dr. Ndemo,
I believe the best input we as an industry can offer is how to improve the teaching standards with the use of technology to provide solutions to questions such as "how can we enable 100 students who are dependent on a single teacher?"
When I attended the opening of the NI3 centre at the former Kenya Science Teachers College campus I noted a sign that read "Teaching aid development unit" which seemed derelict but I am sure it still has a budget allocation from someone within the ministry of education.
What we need is to find out how such a division can be brought into the 21st century, as there is likely already budget allocated this can be up and running in a few months. KIE also has resources which can be leveraged upon to improve the delivery of content to the teacher across the country.
We killed the radio lessons programme and blamed it on the costs, I propose that as we work on the revised media bill we include 2 hours per day of relevant educational programming as part of the 75% local content.
Finally daktari, we know the solutions to all these problems, we have sat in multiple forums, seminars and brain storming sessions but we continue to suffer from analysis paralysis action needs to be taken.
Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
________________________________ From: "bitange@jambo.co.ke" <bitange@jambo.co.ke> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: "k-internetusers@bdix.net" <k-internetusers@bdix.net>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 18:24 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio
It is our collective responsibility to do something about declining educational standards in our country. Can we make suggestions on way forward? I will take the responsibility of having the Education Ministry do something.
Regards.
Ndemo.
Sent from my BlackBerry®
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Hi Daktari, I propose that we approach Philip Ochieng to produce a regular program based on his column in the Saturday Nation. KIE have a complete recording studio that is fully staffed, all that the rest of us need to do is to fund the design and construction of the set for the show. Ndemo, this is a quick gain that we can effect yesterday. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: "bitange@jambo.co.ke" <bitange@jambo.co.ke> To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: "bitange@jambo.co.ke" <bitange@jambo.co.ke>; "k-internetusers@bdix.net" <k-internetusers@bdix.net>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Thursday, 6 October 2011, 12:40 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio Robert, Thank you for this. We have given two digital channels to KIE. We have also offered for free two DTH channels. What is lacking is content and proper programming. I see only music and school plays on DTT. Can we crowd source content? Ndemo.
Dr. Ndemo,
I believe the best input we as an industry can offer is how to improve the teaching standards with the use of technology to provide solutions to questions such as "how can we enable 100 students who are dependent on a single teacher?"
When I attended the opening of the NI3 centre at the former Kenya Science Teachers College campus I noted a sign that read "Teaching aid development unit" which seemed derelict but I am sure it still has a budget allocation from someone within the ministry of education.
What we need is to find out how such a division can be brought into the 21st century, as there is likely already budget allocated this can be up and running in a few months. KIE also has resources which can be leveraged upon to improve the delivery of content to the teacher across the country.
We killed the radio lessons programme and blamed it on the costs, I propose that as we work on the revised media bill we include 2 hours per day of relevant educational programming as part of the 75% local content.
Finally daktari, we know the solutions to all these problems, we have sat in multiple forums, seminars and brain storming sessions but we continue to suffer from analysis paralysis action needs to be taken.
Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
________________________________ From: "bitange@jambo.co.ke" <bitange@jambo.co.ke> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: "k-internetusers@bdix.net" <k-internetusers@bdix.net>; KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Wednesday, 5 October 2011, 18:24 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Vizualisations on Student Teacher Ratio
It is our collective responsibility to do something about declining educational standards in our country. Can we make suggestions on way forward? I will take the responsibility of having the Education Ministry do something.
Regards.
Ndemo.
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robert yawe