Internship programs: developing local capacity about laptops and learning
Group of Interns that worked as trainers during the July HoS and Teachers Capacity Building
Maybe the most important goal of OLPC in Rwanda is to introduce powerful learning ideas in the society, showing that children are able of much more than school usually offers and computers are a fantastic tool to develop this potential. However, to make such goal sustainable, it is necessary to develop local capacity that really understands the principles behind laptops and learning.
We need to reach people in different levels and spread the ideas not only among school’s teachers, but in people that will support OLPC initiative, people that will be teachers of the teachers, students, school managers, politicians and so on. We need to help the society to change the “grammar of school” speaking a new language that goes beyond teaching, and focus mainly on learning.
As part of this larger perspective, we run different kinds of internship programs in Rwanda. We mostly focus just graduated students (both from universities and secondary schools), but we also have actions on future teachers that are studying in universities and Teachers Training Centers – TTCs.
At the same time that this action is building capacity for people in the country, it is helping to support the activities at schools, contributing in the growth of examples about powerful ways to learn with laptops.
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