How to implement a computer lab in a rural school? Here is described background, challenge scenario and ecosystem of the case.

1. How to implement a computer lab
in a rural school?
Further Info with Janet Melchor
@JanetMelchor
j.melchor@live.com.mx
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2. Problem Scenario
This a real problem in a small town in
Puebla, Mexico. Atoyatempan is located in
Where the center of the state of Puebla, about 70
kilometers southeast of the state capital.
The surface of this town is 21.69 km ²,
which place it as one of the smallest in the
state of Puebla.(1)
(1) Source info: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atoyatempan

3. NEED ANALYSIS
Principal, teachers, students, parents
at “Jose María Morelos y Pavón”
Who Elementary School. From 1st to 6th
grade (~6 to 12 years old).
More information
Morning session. The school session
begin from 8.30 to 1.30 pm. They have
30 minutes of break for taking lunch(2).
There are 547 students, 18 teachers,
18 grades (3 for each grade).
*The learners are teachers and
students of the entire school.
(2) http://mexico.pueblosamerica.com/c/jose-maria-morelos-pavon-898

4. Students from 5th and 6th grade have
been working with a blackboard
digital platform called
“Enciclomedia”(3).
Background
The students of rest of the school
know a little about computers.
Some of them use computers at
home or cyber-sites.
There is a free WIFI internet signal in
the community and it's close to the
school. Unfortunately the speed is
low.
(3) Enciclomedia Info
http://www.sep.gob.mx/en/sep_en/Enciclomedia_program
http://cdn.animalpolitico.com/files/Enciclomedia.jpg (Image)

5. Parents committe received 7
What computers to start a laboratory
and computer at school, this was a
When donation from benefactors of the
community on June 2012 but five
months later they haven't use it yet.

6. Principal, teachers and parents are
concerned about the use of the
computers because they don't know
HOW to implement the lab
How (installation, training, schedule,
internet network, mantainment, etc).

7. 1. School have space for make
installation but they don't have proper
materials and an expertise to
implement this.
Ecosystem 2. There are a parents comitee so they
can get money to deploy it the
implementation plan through
cooperation.
3. The teachers complain because they
don't have enough time to learn about
computer and to teach curricular
objectives.
4. Benefactors don't want to
participate, they want the school
community organise the entire
implementation.

8. 5. The parents are worried about
cooperation because past experiences
their cooperations were sold for one
person from the comittee, they are not
Ecosystem very motivated for that.
6. The Parent Comittee (PC) is an
important autority inside of the school,
they take decisions in name of the rest
of parents. The PC is formed by 7
parents.
7. The PC would like to have an
implementation plan in stages because
they think the rest of parents won't
want to cooperate much.

9. 8. The learning objectives are not set
but the parents wants at least the
children turn on/off the computer, write
texts and learn to search through
Ecosystem internet.
9. 70% of teachers have basic digital
skills, so they are not confident to
teach, they want to learn. The others
are not interested to teach though they
have better skills.

10. ● They had a lab computer before
but at this time the computers are
old, obsolete and useless.
Plan? ● The computers on the lab were not
Suggestions?
connected on network neither
internet connection.
● The parents want the children take
computer classes and they may
cooperate continuosly if the results
are good.
● The school season 2012 ends on
Dec 17 and restart on January 7th,
2013, they would like to have a
solution and implement it this year.