[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SchoolNet Africa, IICD and the WSIS Youth Caucus invite you to a panel discussion on: Lets Get Real:A Grassroots Perspective on School Networking in Africa. 18 November 2005 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This looks very interesting. It is something very dear to my heart - but I am too far away to attend. I hope some of the discussion will be shared on the list.
Regarding Teachers in Africa - I would like to mention something that may interest some of the people attending - or considering attending "Lets Get Real" The following day - Saturday November 19th is the date set for the first annual re-union of the Teachers Talking group. All being well, a small group of teachers will be coming online from the Fantsuam Foundation Community Learning Centre in Kafanchan (in rural Nigeria). They are participants from the initial Teachers Talking (about ICTs) course, held in November last year. If you would like to join in yahoo chat with the teachers you can do so by joining http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CawdTeachersTalking/. If you want to learn something about the reality of teaching in rural Nigeria - this could be an ideal opportunity. We don't know how many will be able to attend yet, but their letters of invitation have gone out. The letters were sent out by motorbike, to be delivered by hand. This is the normal way of communicating important messages in this rural area where there are no phones and the postal service is poor. In case you are wondering what on earth we thought we were doing teaching these rural teachers about ICT when they come from schools with no electricity and few books, I will explain: - The teachers asked us to (the government has imposed a promotion ceiling on teachers who are not computer literate) - We know the schools they come from - so our course included a module called the "no-computer computer course" - to help them help their pupils to "imagine and understand" computers - and feel more confident about meeting them. - They may be able to get to the CLC or other cyber cafe in the future - so we wanted them to be able to go online, and to have a flavour of belonging to a "learning community" on the Internet.. - We hope that when computers do come to the rural areas some of our teachers will be able to enter into informed debate about what would and would not be useful to them. See http://www.cawd.net/daisy/CawdNet/g1/805.html for photos and more information about the course last year Pam. Pamela McLean CAWDnet convenor [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cawd.info _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
