Re: [kictanet] [ISOC_KE] The State Of Internet Access In Our Schools & Kenya’s Global Ranking In A Hyper-Connected World
Thanks Ouya and Ali, sounds very exciting i am sure Martin and colleagues will be getting in touch with you it is a great public course at the end of the day we have to ensure that the Internet is for everyone, indeed we can do something as Ali proposes. On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Ouya Obunga <ouya.bill@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Barrack, Hussein,
I'm currently undertaking a similar consultancy carried out by USAID through ACE (Accelerating 21st Century Education) and TEPD (Teacher Education and Professional Development) whereby teachers were trained on use computers and internet such that when they teach, they just use laptops with no papers. Additionally, these schools were given laptops that have all subjects content in softcopy from KIE (the software is called Tafakari) plus internet connection that teachers and students can research on and learn the most updated content.
The project is in pilot stage in Garissa, Mombasa and Nyeri. I can be resourceful in the event that you want to carry out a baseline survey on the same due to my interactions with these schools. In fact, one of the key pillars of establishing computer system in schools was access to affordable internet connection since the use of Modems is proving to be very expensive for most of the schools.
Best regards,
Ouya Obunga 0720 438 527
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ali,
It is good you raise this issue, the same arose during our monthly Internet Society Chapter meeting last weekend and the Chapter decided to conduct a baseline survey whose findings we shall share with the community in due course, you raise very salient issues that members pointed out.
Best Regards
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:
Listers
Last week I visited a school run by an NGO called New Dawn Kenya www.newdawnkenya.com. The school is in an informal settlement in the affluent Runda residential area. The appetite for education and knowledge among the students was a thing of beauty to see. These are extremely disadvantaged young people with an insatiable thirst for knowledge.
What struck home for me was that the majority of them had never accessed information on the Internet. This issue is an emotional one for me. As a hyper-connected Kenyan I have always taken for granted access to the Internet for the last few years. Over the last few years Internet usage and penetration levels have increased phenomenally.
Read on:
http://alyhussein.com/2012/09/the-state-of-internet-access-in-our-schools-ke...
Ali Hussein
+254 773/713 601113
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I'd be grateful to be involved in this since I'm a practitioner in the adult education sub-sector. The challenge I've seen is a high number of teachers would rather go for the paper and chalk, instead of adapting technology. On 18/09/2012, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks Ouya and Ali, sounds very exciting i am sure Martin and colleagues will be getting in touch with you it is a great public course at the end of the day we have to ensure that the Internet is for everyone, indeed we can do something as Ali proposes.
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Ouya Obunga <ouya.bill@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Barrack, Hussein,
I'm currently undertaking a similar consultancy carried out by USAID through ACE (Accelerating 21st Century Education) and TEPD (Teacher Education and Professional Development) whereby teachers were trained on use computers and internet such that when they teach, they just use laptops with no papers. Additionally, these schools were given laptops that have all subjects content in softcopy from KIE (the software is called Tafakari) plus internet connection that teachers and students can research on and learn the most updated content.
The project is in pilot stage in Garissa, Mombasa and Nyeri. I can be resourceful in the event that you want to carry out a baseline survey on the same due to my interactions with these schools. In fact, one of the key pillars of establishing computer system in schools was access to affordable internet connection since the use of Modems is proving to be very expensive for most of the schools.
Best regards,
Ouya Obunga 0720 438 527
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Ali,
It is good you raise this issue, the same arose during our monthly Internet Society Chapter meeting last weekend and the Chapter decided to conduct a baseline survey whose findings we shall share with the community in due course, you raise very salient issues that members pointed out.
Best Regards
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 5:55 AM, Ali Hussein <ali@hussein.me.ke> wrote:
Listers
Last week I visited a school run by an NGO called New Dawn Kenya www.newdawnkenya.com. The school is in an informal settlement in the affluent Runda residential area. The appetite for education and knowledge among the students was a thing of beauty to see. These are extremely disadvantaged young people with an insatiable thirst for knowledge.
What struck home for me was that the majority of them had never accessed information on the Internet. This issue is an emotional one for me. As a hyper-connected Kenyan I have always taken for granted access to the Internet for the last few years. Over the last few years Internet usage and penetration levels have increased phenomenally.
Read on:
http://alyhussein.com/2012/09/the-state-of-internet-access-in-our-schools-ke...
Ali Hussein
+254 773/713 601113
Sent from my iPad
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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.
-- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/ _______________________________________________ isoc mailing list isoc@orion.my.co.ke http://orion.my.co.ke/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/isoc
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