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ESCAF teachers using laptops in class
Escaf is one of a few private schools in Kigali with laptops. Being private, instead of receiving laptops for the entire student body by the Ministry of Education, as a part of the One Laptop Per Child Project, some parents with the financial means, were motivated to purchase laptops directly from MINEDUC. Today About 40% of the students in grades Primary 4-6 own laptops.
After 2 months of teacher training in basic use of laptops and introduction to computers and learning, teachers were still arguing about how difficult it is for them to use laptops in their day to day teaching.
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1st OLPC Head of Schools & Champion Teachers Capacity Building
This Monday, July 5th, started a one week Capacity Building about the XO laptop with 300 teachers from all 30 Districts (5 Provinces) of Rwanda. This is the start of the second milestone of the OLPC project implementation in the country. The first one was the distribution of 10.000 XOs that OLPC donated to Rwanda in 2008, most of them inside Kigali. This second phase is the distribution of 100.000 XOs bough by the Rwanda Government into 150 school all across the country up the December 2010.
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Video-conference: Rwandan Kids of Kagugu school met Brazilian Kids
Jun 17 and 18 Rwandan kids of Kagugu Primary School met Brazilian kids through Skype.
Rwandan students said in Portuguese: Bom dia! Oi! Tudo Bem?
Brazilian students said in English: Good afternoon! How are you?
Rwandan students presented themselves in Portuguese: Oi! Meu nome é… Muito prazer!
Brazilian students presented themselves in English: Hi! My name is …. Nice to meet you!
This activity was part of the beginning of a small partnership between Brazilian and Rwandan Students. Read more…
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Reflections on Holiday Teacher Training
During the school holiday, from April 5th to April 16th 2010, the One Laptop Per Child Learning Team conducted an intensive teacher training program at two public schools in Kigali: Kagugu and Nonko Primary Schools.
The objectives of this training were to enable teachers to feel comfortable and confident in the use of the XO Laptop; to strengthen teachers’ knowledge about how to integrate the laptop with the curriculum, and to let teachers experience the impact of Project-based Learning as they developed their own projects on the theme of malaria.
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The Matsiko Project: Curiosity Investigators
By Silvia Kist
During the school holiday in July 2009 in Rwanda, students and teachers from Nonko, Rwamagana and Kagugu Primary Schools returned to their classrooms for a week to participate in Rwanda’s first XO Camp.
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) Learning Team designed the XO Camp with help from the Rwandan RITC Core Team. The goals of the XO Camp is to give students the opportunity to work on something fun that they would not be able to work on during school and to continue capacity building for teachers. The XO Camp, within the basis of rich learning activity, is designed to provide an example of interesting and challenging things that can be done with laptops and to create a vision of powerful uses of computers for teachers and school managers.
These rich learning activities relate to the growth model that OLPC and the Government of Rwanda are building for the laptop initiative in Rwanda. In this growth model, it is important to create powerful exemplars, which are centers of innovation and reflection about laptops and learning. The enthusiasm and the lessons learned in these centers are used to spread the transformation across the school system (see David Cavallo’s paper, Models of Growth: Towards Fundamental change in learning environments).
We have had 3 XO Camps that ran simultaneously at the primary schools: Matsiko Project, Newspaper and Game Programming. We are spotlighting the Matsiko Project in this entry. The Matsiko Project was created to introduce a different approach of the way the learning happens. The idea behind the Matsiko Project is to offer an opportunity for a group of students to express their curiosities about the world and to conduct investigations about subjects that are meaningful to them.
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Nonko Malaria Day
On April Holidays (April 5th-16th), we conducted a camp with 100 students at Nonko Primary School (Rwanda). During this camp, students developed their own projects about Malaria. The school decided to hold an event in honor of World Malaria day, April 25th, to show their best projects. Great Job Nonko!
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