We think of an eLearning module traditionally as formal learning. Several of the projects that I am working on are creating eLearning modules. The modules will be used once by someone and then they are “thrown” away by that person. With the amount of time and resources that go into creating them, it makes me …
I participated in a workshop recently with subject matter experts. The workshop was on how to create an eLearning module. eLearning module may only be two words, but it caused a lot of confusion. For our project, we explained that we will use these modules as supplementary material. We said it a few times. Then …
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I think about learning. A lot. I look at learning as a process. I think about the system that is needed to be in place to make learning happen. The sketchnote is my attempt to visualize how I am currently thinking about learning. (Yes, I drew it.) All the pieces of the vision exist not …
I have tried many times to begin a new journey and diverge from education technology in Africa. Yet whatever path I go on, it leads me right back to the main road of working with teachers in Africa. I trained teachers in Mombasa from 2010-2013 on using technology in education. I read an article this …
Staying on the main road or taking another path may still lead to the same place Read More »
Remember this joke as a kid? It was a silly one. The answer is a newspaper. ‘Red’ is ‘read’ said in the past tense. A newspaper is black and white. That is the “correct” answer. In the past week I had two interactions where people wanted to know what the correct answer was. In both …
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Innovation and creativity are things that we hear about all the time. To be innovative, you need to think creatively. Art is one way to foster this. OECD published a report, Art for Art’s Sake? The Impact of Arts Education looking at the impact of arts education and these kinds of outcomes. They asked the …
Art Makes You Smart or is it Art for Art’s Sake? Read More »
I had a conversation this week with a colleague from Africa who talked about creating videos to demonstrate specific skills and showing them on tablets. He described it as innovative. I had to break the news to him that videos on tablets is not innovative. What is innovative is why the technology is used, how …
Not how? or what? but why? @ Coders4Africa event Read More »
Someone called me that the other day after I told her the number of years that I have lived and worked in Africa. She is African and has spent many years living and working in the States. She has returned to Africa, leading the Africa division of global technology company. We both ask the question: …
A nine year old boy pees in class leaving a puddle on the floor and his pants are now wet. A little girl walks by with a bowl of water, trips and spills it on it. All the empathy from their classmates went to the little boy. They tell the little girl to get out …
I might wet my pants in class one day, too…Empathy in the World Read More »
The course focuses on the macroeconomy as a general equilibrium system and discusses how goods, money and factor markets interact to determine national income and its components. The topics to be covered are: macroeconomic data, the neo-classical model of economic growth, equilibrium unemployment, monetary system, money neutrality and inflation.
Basically deals with politics. It includes learning in public administration and law.