ICT & Global Education
Issues around computer use and ICT integration as many rural schools and developing regions are now receiving donated computers and getting connected.
What ICT projects are there out there in TWB-land?
So, I thought this might be better as a discussion thread rather than a comment on the group wall:
I work with international educators doing teacher training in rural Sudan. One of the schools we work with - the sole high school in a region serving about 10,000 students K-graduation - has a small computer lab but only two of the teachers in the school and region know how to use it. We have been doing training with the teachers of the region to enable them to use this resource to improve their insructional practice and to introduce them to and provide them with e-resources to support this. Before we began this program, all but a couple of the computers had been sitting in boxes, unused for more than a year.
I think this is a pretty common scenario and we are happy to be helping Sudanese educators work toward a fruitful implementation of a a previously irrelevant (and expensive) resource. Anyone out there with similar stories, suggestions for extending our work, or insights?
I work with international educators doing teacher training in rural Sudan. One of the schools we work with - the sole high school in a region serving about 10,000 students K-graduation - has a small computer lab but only two of the teachers in the school and region know how to use it. We have been doing training with the teachers of the region to enable them to use this resource to improve their insructional practice and to introduce them to and provide them with e-resources to support this. Before we began this program, all but a couple of the computers had been sitting in boxes, unused for more than a year.
I think this is a pretty common scenario and we are happy to be helping Sudanese educators work toward a fruitful implementation of a a previously irrelevant (and expensive) resource. Anyone out there with similar stories, suggestions for extending our work, or insights?
Noble Kelly
I also have a set of lessons on how to teach computer topics without any computers. If interested, drop me an email and I will send them to you.
Jan 26, 2009
Sharon Peters
By the way, would you have any photos or video of your work? My students are currently creating a documentary about Darfur and Sudanese refugee camps in Chad through a National Geographic photojournalist, and we would be very interested in hearing more about your work!
Feb 1, 2009
Brad Waugh
Thanks for the link. I do have a folder of pictures that I have shrunk to a reasonable size (28 photos taking up about 3.5 MB in total) so that they can be e-mailed out. Contact me at bwaugh@krtams.org and I will send them to you. Our project is not in Darfur in the west, but rather in the Merowe region north of Khartoum where the Merowe Dam is being built. There are similar concerns and pressures in the region because the drought (and dam project) are causing social pressures on the people living up there. The education project we are involved in is linked to a larger project trying to address these pressures and hoping to avoid a "new Darfur." I will upload a sampling of photos here. E-mail me if you want the rest.
Brad
Brad
Feb 1, 2009