Khan; solution to teacher shortage
Hi, We need to get this issue out and in the classroom, listen to Khan explain his site and get an appreciation of how we can level the education gap by using technology. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM95HHI4gLk&feature=player_embedded Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
@ Yawe, You have just shown me Education 2.0! I wonder if our Education gurus in KU, KIE and others are aware of such opportunities. This is a must view for anyone in Academia. walu. --- On Mon, 7/11/11, robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: [kictanet] Khan; solution to teacher shortage To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 12:25 PM Hi, We need to get this issue out and in the classroom, listen to Khan explain his site and get an appreciation of how we can level the education gap by using technology. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM95HHI4gLk&feature=player_embedded Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ 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/jwalu%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 guys, The basic concept is not really new and I think some guys (e.g www.kst* studies*.net) are already attempting to do it locally. That said, I like Khan's almost intuitive methodology in implementing the classes. The challenge to tackle would be to take it to the far flung parts of the country. -- Josiah Mugambi On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote:
@ Yawe,
You have just shown me Education 2.0! I wonder if our Education gurus in KU, KIE and others are aware of such opportunities. This is a must view for anyone in Academia.
walu.
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From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: [kictanet] Khan; solution to teacher shortage To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 12:25 PM
Hi,
We need to get this issue out and in the classroom, listen to Khan explain his site and get an appreciation of how we can level the education gap by using technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM95HHI4gLk&feature=player_embedded
Regards
Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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Hi, The way education is going to be delivered now and in the future has changed, those still thinking of the traditional delivery method for education e.g. KNUT, will find themselves all alone in the wilderness of the past. Now students across the country can get tuition from the best educationalists in the country or even the world. Lets stop trying to recreate the wheel let us adopt the technical hook, line and sinker as we have done with yahoo, youtube, facebook, twitter and google. The rebirth of radio lessons is back, KIE should use the billions allocated to them to develop e-learning content to and also re-equip there studios to produce content for delivery over low speed connections. @ Josiah: Delivery to the furthest points in the country can be easily done using the GPRS and 3G networks utilising phones that have RCA or HDMI outputs for connection to a TV/projector for classroom viewing. 21" TV with DC power capability @ 15,000/- Solar Panel + Battery@20,000/- Mobile phone with RCA/HDMI@20,000/- 55,000/- Now if the 4,000,000,000/- that was misappropriated with the FPE funds we would be able to equip 72,000 schools. Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696 ________________________________ From: Josiah Mugambi <jmugambi@gmail.com> To: robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Mon, 11 July, 2011 15:31:58 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Khan; solution to teacher shortage Hi guys, The basic concept is not really new and I think some guys (e.g www.kststudies.net) are already attempting to do it locally. That said, I like Khan's almost intuitive methodology in implementing the classes. The challenge to tackle would be to take it to the far flung parts of the country. -- Josiah Mugambi On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Walubengo J <jwalu@yahoo.com> wrote: @ Yawe,
You have just shown me Education 2.0! I wonder if our Education gurus in KU, KIE and others are aware of such opportunities. This is a must view for anyone in Academia.
walu.
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From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: [kictanet] Khan; solution to teacher shortage To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Monday, July 11, 2011, 12:25 PM
Hi,
We need to get this issue out and in the classroom, listen to Khan explain his site and get an appreciation of how we can level the education gap by using technology.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gM95HHI4gLk&feature=player_embedded
Regards Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
Tel: +254722511225, +254202010696
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Robert, 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. 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. Ndemo. Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Sender: kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:43:02 To: <bitange@jambo.co.ke> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Khan; solution to teacher shortage _______________________________________________ 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.
Good point Daktari, lest we forget that ICTs are not an end in themselves but a means to an end, having been involved in awareness campaigns through www.projectdiscovery.or.ke, we discovered that some teachers would become suspicious that ICTs would take away their jobs and that there were also some aspects of pedagogy that ICTs could not address effectively (most of our schools are also day care centres), of course a lot has been done through various ppp iniatiatives to raise awareness and many business opportunities have resulted from this efforts, in as much as i would want to appreciate what we can achieve from education 2.0 as Walu would call it , let us also look at how they can be effectively integrated into the existing education framework to improve on it and i think KIE is doing well in this regard, the role of the teacher is still very important since he is a role model and mentor, something we cant easily get from video so i agree with the PS a Mash up of sorts might be necessary. On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 12:47 AM, <bitange@jambo.co.ke> wrote:
Robert, 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.
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.
Ndemo.
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Daktari, 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. 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. 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 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%. 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%. 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. 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. 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. 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. Regards PS. A recent study found that American students failed miserably in Maths and Science compared to students in other 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>; kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Tue, 12 July, 2011 0:47:44 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Khan; solution to teacher shortage Robert, 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. 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. Ndemo. Sent from my BlackBerry® -----Original Message----- From: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> Sender: kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:43:02 To: <bitange@jambo.co.ke> Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions<kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Khan; solution to teacher shortage _______________________________________________ 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.
Daktari,
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.
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.
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
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%.
Ooops, almost forgot, and if there is no teacher able to teach the subject
there goes the remaining 20% which gives us a fallout rate of 100%.
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.
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.
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.
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,
Bwana Yawe The study says that among developed countries, US students are number 27 in maths .... And number 1 in self confidence ... Imagine that. On 13 Jul 2011 14:10, "robert yawe" <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: then paradigm
shift.
Regards
PS. A recent study found that American students failed miserably in Maths and Science compared to students in other Robert Yawe KAY System Technologies Ltd Phoenix House, 6th Floor P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200 Kenya
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________________________________ From: "bitange@jambo.co.ke" <bitange@jambo.co.ke> To: robert yawe <robertyawe@yahoo.co.uk>; kictanet-bounces+bitange=jambo.co.ke@lists.kictanet.or.ke Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Sent: Tue, 12 July, 2011 0:47:44 Subject: Re: [kictanet] Khan; solution to teacher shortage
Robert, 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.
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.
Ndemo.
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