Using new technologies to improve educational outcomes for children in rural & under-resourced schools

3. Improving Educational
Outcomes for Children in Rural
Areas...
Using new technologies … or not?

4. A roadmap to start together !

5. What, Why ?
• Basic digital literacies for children in their 1st
years of formal education?
• What kind of approach to penetrate
communities without basic digital skills and
without knowing about mobile education ?

9. Creating indigenous content that promotes:
● Functional Skills
● Collaboration
● Creativity
● Critical thinking
● E-Safety
● Cultural & Social Understanding
Creating Content

11. Animators
● Student
• Age ranges: 3 - 5, 6 - 9, 10 – 12, 13 – 15, 16 - 17
• Teacher
• School Educators, Young Instructors Leader program
• Parent
• Mentorship Framework
• Organisation
• NGOs, Community Leaders, Donors/Big Corporations

12. Guidelines

13. Problems
In rural contexts :
● Lack of Electricity
● Internet Access
● Mentalities
● Access to digital literacy
● Mobility (Roads)
● Social/Cultural interactions

14. Solutions
The solution for digital education in rural areas in Africa will involve the
establishment of dedicated educational kits with the following characteristics:
● Mobile and easy to carry
● Playful and promotes collaborative work
● Autonomous solar source to provide electricity during training
● High capacity storage with educational content using micro components.
● Empowerment Programmes for Soft-skill development
This solution can be implemented by Africans through various innovation hubs

15. Solutions
Our project in rural areas would be implemented using
existing technologies:
• IDEAS BOX
• BRCK – Kio Kit
• One Laptop One Child (OLOC)

16. Project Needs:
• Tool Kits: Curriculum, Furniture, Storage, Mobile
Devices, Media Resources
• Power: Solar wafers, BRCK
• Internet Connectivity
• Mobility: Vehicle - Van, Bikes
• Learning Space

17. examples

18. IDEAS BOX

19. One Child One Computer, OLOC

20. BRCK

21. Ecosystem and Interconnections
In what educational ecosystem are you ?
Transformation -> Adaptation -> Creativity
Spaces of independent or joined learnings ?
→ communities / civil society / local decision-
makers / parents / teachers / care homes (health) /
educational communities / innovators

22. Let’s Go for it
together :-)