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Dalarna University & Royal Institute of Technology_Sweden

Contents of project proposal

General Overview

Universities: Dalarna University & Royal Institute of Technology(KTH), Sweden
Team Name: Ethio_Swed_ OLPCorps Team
Team Memembers: Dagmawi S. Tesfa and Demerew K. Tesfaye
Deployment country: Ethiopia

Answer the basics

Where: Target School: Arsi Kersa primary school, munesa district and Eteya primary school, Eteya distric, Ethiopia
Who: Target Class: kersa primary school of grade four students (Grade 4)
When: between June and August 09

How will you work with children

Even if students are on break between June 09 and August 09, we have arrenged with our local partner, who has a close contact and woriking with community as well as management members of the school to arrange a schedule for the avalability of student during this period
OLPC ensures that teachers will have their own laptops and high-bandwidth connectivity, we have a means of supporting them that previously did not exist. Teachers, parents, and concerned experts can join in to create new learning networks to improve educational thinking and practices
help students learn using technology and reflect on this learning. We need to engage them in those learning methodologies that are enhanced by connected laptops: the design and construction of personally meaningful objects using a variety of computational and traditional materials—a more diversified, humanistic, holistic approach to learning than previously was logistically possible
when children bring the laptops home with them, many parents began adult education courses at night using the laptops. Many families chose to move into communities with laptop programs. Children develop the skills to do normal maintenance on their laptops. Most important, though, is that the children engage more deeply in learning and school work over the year; the computer helps deepen this interaction
make quality education critical for human and social development

Address how you will deal with children and learning with their schedule (Deployment and training will be school based as follows)

1. Set meeting with our local partners (Oromia development association, Arsi branch), Eteya farmers coperative union, school mangement and comminity representative
2. Training of selected teachers (training of traines) sponsered by the local parteners, during working hours including weekends. The traind teachers will be responsibe to support and monitor students after Augest 09
3. Teaching students with the teachers that we traind them
4. Handout of computers and training of students and teachers in class, after school and at weekends
5. Continuing training and integration of XO’s after the end of August
6. promote collaborative learning and … provide individualized instruction
7. learning in laptop classrooms is often more self-directed
8. Teachers in laptop classrooms are more willing to assign presentations and multimedia projects to students, and score them
9. students as well as teachers gather and move around to work on projects this frees teachers to roam about the room helping those who have problems or need remediation
10. Teachers in laptop classrooms are more willing to assign presentations and multimedia projects to students, and score them using customized, project-driven rubrics and even self-assessments

Who is the local partner

Eteya Farmers cooperative Union and Oromia Development association Arsi branch

How will you follow-up (Supervision)

We will train students and teachers parallelly, and enabling teachers to fully take care of teaching. Farmers cooperative Union and Oromia Development association as local partners, will take care of the monitoring capable of maintaining the deployment after we leave, oversee and support the program after August assisted by Oromia Development association, which will provide back-up, further training and supervision and which will liaise with the local community

Letter of support from the local partners

Where will you store the equipment during the deployment

At our local partner store

Describe your project's financial needs and provide a brief budget for the project

S/No	Activities	Duration	Cost per day	Total Cost
1	row 1, cell 2	row 1, cell 3	row 1, cell 4	row 1, cell 5
2	row 2, cell 2	row 2, cell 3	row 2, cell 4	row 2, cell 5
3	row 3, cell 2	row 3, cell 3	row 3, cell 4	row 3, cell 5
4	row 4, cell 2	row 4, cell 3	row 4, cell 4	row 4, cell 5
5	row 5, cell 2	row 5, cell 3	row 5, cell 4	row 5, cell 5

How will you provide financial support after you leave

Research your university's grant programs, student associations, alumni networks, and other avenues of funding to sustain your deployment

Communication - do you share the language of the school or community where you will be working

The languge of the community is our native languge os there is no problem with this regards

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 === [http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPCorps_'''Dalarna University & Royal Institute of Technology_Sweden'''] ===
+== '''Contents of project proposal''' ==
-'''Universities:''' Dalarna University & KTH, Sweden<br />
+=== <br />General Overview ===
-'''Team Name:''' OLPCorps_Ethio_Swed<br />
-'''Team Memembers:''' Dagmawi S. Tesfa, Demerew K. Tesfaye<br />
-'''Deployment country:''' Ethiopia<br />
-'''Proposal'''<br />
+<br />
+''Universities'': Dalarna University & Royal Institute of Technology(KTH), Sweden<br />
-What are the key elements for success?
+''Team Name'': Ethio_Swed_ OLPCorps Team<br />
-Learning environments are transformed:
+''Team Memembers'': Dagmawi S. Tesfa and Demerew K. Tesfaye<br />
+''Deployment country'': Ethiopia<br />
+=== <br />Answer the basics ===
-    * Educators involved in laptop programs … promote collaborative learning and … provide individualized instruction;
-          o students and teachers move around more. Instead of staying put to do “seat work”, students gather to work on projects;
-          o (this) frees teachers to roam about the room helping those who have problems or need remediation;
-          o learning in laptop classrooms is often more self-directed.
+<br />''Where'': Target School: Arsi Kersa primary school, munesa district and Eteya primary school, Eteya distric, Ethiopia<br />
-Assessment techniques change:
+''Who'': Target Class: kersa primary school of grade four students (Grade 4)<br />
+''When'': between June and August 09<br />
+=== How will you work with children ===
+<br />Even if students are on break between June 09 and August 09, we have arrenged with our local partner, who has a close contact and woriking with community as well as management members of the school  to arrange a schedule for the avalability of student during this period  <br />OLPC ensures that teachers will have their own laptops and high-bandwidth connectivity, we have a means of supporting them that previously did not exist. Teachers, parents, and concerned experts can join in to create new learning networks to improve educational thinking and practices<br /> help students learn using technology and reflect on this learning. We need to engage them in those learning methodologies that are enhanced by connected laptops: the design and construction of personally meaningful objects using a variety of computational and traditional materials—a more diversified, humanistic, holistic approach to learning than previously was logistically possible<br />when children bring the laptops home with them, many parents began adult education courses at night using the laptops. Many families chose to move into communities with laptop programs. Children develop the skills to do normal maintenance on their laptops. Most important, though, is that the children engage more deeply in learning and school work over the year; the computer helps deepen this interaction<br />make quality education critical for human and social development<br />
+=== Address how you will deal with children and learning with their schedule (Deployment and training will be school based as follows) ===
-    * Teachers in laptop classrooms are more willing to assign presentations and multimedia projects to students, and score them using customized, project-driven rubrics and even self-assessments.
+<br />1. Set meeting with our local partners (Oromia development association, Arsi branch), Eteya farmers coperative union, school mangement and comminity representative<br />
+. Training of selected teachers (training of traines) sponsered by the local parteners, during working hours including weekends. The traind teachers will be responsibe to support and monitor students after Augest 09<br />
+. Teaching students with the teachers that we traind them<br />
+. Handout of computers and training of students and teachers in class, after school and at weekends<br />
+. Continuing training and integration of XO’s after the end of August<br />
+. promote collaborative learning and … provide individualized instruction<br />
+. learning in laptop classrooms is often more self-directed<br />
+. Teachers in laptop classrooms are more willing to assign presentations and multimedia projects to students, and score them<br />
+. students as well as teachers gather and move around to work on projects this frees teachers to roam about the room helping those who have problems or need remediation<br />
+. Teachers in laptop classrooms are more willing to assign presentations and multimedia projects to students, and score them using customized, project-driven rubrics and even self-assessments<br />
+=== Who is the local partner ===
-Students are highly engaged: Like teachers, students also show improved technology skills and sophistication. Productivity increase: Students develop better organizational skills because they are needed to keep track of what's on their computer and to accomplish complex project work in a timely manner. Attitudes toward writing improve:
+<br />
+Eteya Farmers cooperative Union and Oromia Development association Arsi branch<br />
+=== How will you follow-up (Supervision) ===
-    * 76% of students said they enjoy writing more on the laptops than on paper;
+<br />We will train students and teachers parallelly, and enabling teachers to fully take care of teaching. Farmers cooperative Union and Oromia Development association as local partners, will take care of the monitoring capable of maintaining the deployment after we leave, oversee and support the program after August assisted by Oromia Development association, which will provide back-up, further training and supervision and which will liaise with the local community<br />
-    * 80% indicated laptops make it easier to rewrite and revise their writing;
+=== Letter of support from the local partners ===
-    * 73% said they earn better grades for laptop work;
+<br />
+=== Where will you store the equipment during the deployment ===
-The data demonstrate shifts in not only students' writing attitudes, but also in their practices. These are changes we've also observed in language arts teachers' writing instruction strategies, and in the attitudes and practices of other content area teachers.
+<br />At our local partner store<br />
+=== Describe your project's financial needs and provide a brief budget for the project ===
+<br />
+{| class="wikitable"
+|-
+! S/No
+! Activities
+! Duration
+! Cost per day
+! Total Cost
+|-
+| 1
+| row 1, cell 2
+| row 1, cell 3
+| row 1, cell 4
+| row 1, cell 5
+|-
+| 2
+| row 2, cell 2
+| row 2, cell 3
+| row 2, cell 4
+| row 2, cell 5
+|-
-How can we best prepare our teachers to make the most use of this initiative?
+| 3
-Connected laptops enable new approaches to teacher preparation beyond standardized, centralized, hierarchical approaches. We can create pockets of excellence, connected communities of practice, strong exemplars of powerful learning activities, new content, and mechanisms for the spread of ideas. A significant impact of OLPC will be the degree to which connectivity affords support to the teachers. Typical “training” efforts have been limited by the amount of time and the degree of access to the teachers in order to support their ongoing development. Because OLPC ensures that teachers will have their own laptops and high-bandwidth connectivity, we have a means of supporting them that previously did not exist. Teachers, parents, and concerned experts can join in to create new learning networks to improve educational thinking and practices.
+| row 3, cell 2
+| row 3, cell 3
+| row 3, cell 4
+| row 3, cell 5
+|-
+| 4
+| row 4, cell 2
+| row 4, cell 3
+| row 4, cell 4
+| row 4, cell 5
+|-
+| 5
+| row 5, cell 2
+| row 5, cell 3
+| row 5, cell 4
+| row 5, cell 5
+|}
+=== How will you provide financial support after you leave ===
-We certainly don't need to train children how to use the laptop. Likewise, approaches that infantilize teachers, or do not respect them or believe in their capabilities, or only focus on teaching IT skills and office tools, have proven to have limited impact on education despite the investment of millions of dollars. The point is not to have teachers re-create the same lessons in PowerPoint. The point is to help them learn using technology and reflect on this learning. We need to engage them in those learning methodologies that are enhanced by connected laptops: the design and construction of personally meaningful objects using a variety of computational and traditional materials—a more diversified, humanistic, holistic approach to learning than previously was logistically possible. This process is ultimately liberating.
+<br />
-when children bring the laptops home with them, many parents began adult education courses at night using the laptops. Many families chose to move into communities with laptop programs. Children develop the skills to do normal maintenance on their laptops. Most important, though, is that the children engage more deeply in learning and school work over the year; the computer helps deepen this interaction.
+=== Research your university's grant programs, student associations, alumni networks, and other avenues of funding to sustain your deployment ===
+<br />
-The typical measures of test scores and years in school are important, but miss the key points that make quality education critical for human and social development. A child who learns to read but hates it so much that he refuses to read may test well, but is really an example of educational system failure. A child who does not learn to think, imagine, and create with or without new technology will have difficulty with full social and economic inclusion in the modern world
+=== ''Communication'' - do you share the language of the school or community where you will be working ===
+<br />The languge of the community is our  native languge os there is no problem with this regards
-Proposal contents:
-* Answer the basics:
-		 who,
-		 what,
-		when,
-		where.
-		 Most importantly, KEEP IT CONCISE AND DIRECTLY TO THE POINT.
-    * How will you work with children?
-		Are the children in school from June-August?  no
- 		Are they on break? yes
- 		Address how you will deal with children and learning with their schedule.
-		?
-    * Who is the local partner? Mohamed
-		How will you follow-up?
-		Partner with groups capable of maintaining the deployment after you leave. Is there an academic institution, NGO, community organization, etc. willing to oversee the project after August?
-			 yes
- 		Do you have family ties in the community?
-			yes
- 		What's going to happen when you leave?
-			 our locat partner will take over or  ministry of capacity building will take over of´r Ethiopia Information and communication Technology Agency
-          			o Include a letter of support from the local partner (this doesn't count towards your 750 word limit).
-		Make sure you show that together you're capable of handling the receipt of a 230 kg package of laptops and equipment
-			 we are on the way to have a good contact with Ethiopia Air lines to get permisssion
-		 Where will you store the equipment during the deployment. At our locat partner store
-    * How will this impact 6-12 yr old children?
-All proposals must be about kids 6-12 years old and their learning.
-A proposal gets stronger as soon as the group can show that children are the agents of change, not just the objects of teaching.
-          o Stick to OLPC's Core Principles:
-		 child ownership,
-		 low ages,
-		 saturation,
-		connection, and
-		free and open source.
-    * Describe your project's financial needs.
- As an attachment (that doesn't count towards the 750 word limit),
-provide a brief budget for the project.
-		Include travel costs (to Kigali and your deployment community),
-		housing for 9 weeks (can your local partner help here?
-			yes our local partner cover the accommedation expenses), and other project-related expenses.
- Remember that OLPC will only grant up to $10,000 and that you do not need to include XOs, accessories, or Kigali accomodations in your budget. Ethiopia Information and communication agency is
- If you have a creative project-based idea that needs funding, let us know.
-          o Be realistic with your budget. It will determine how much money you'll receive.
-          o But also be economical where possible. If we think a team's budget is wasteful or unrealistic, we will consider that in evaluating the proposal.
-    * How will you provide financial support after you leave? OLPC is dedicating significant time and resources to create learning environments throughout Africa! How can you show that your team can provide financial support after you leave? through ICT
-          o Research your university's grant programs, student associations, alumni networks, and other avenues of funding to sustain your deployment.
-    * Communication - do you share the language of the school or community where you will be working? yes
- If not, how will this be overcome? The languge of the community is our  native languge os there is no problem with this regards
-Note: Upon acceptance, you will be asked to provide proof as a student. This will be verified by the dean of your department, for instance.
- <br />
-'''About us'''<br />
-The team consists of two members.The first one is Dagmawi, who is currently working on his master’s thesis project in Product and Production development. He posses a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and two Master's Degree the first one in Industrial engineering and the second in mechanical Engineering-Product & production development which is in progress. he has also awarded certificates on Quality management system development & implementation based on ISO 9001:2000, Integrated performance management, computer maintenace and Networking and Total quality management. Furthermore,  his four years of past practical experience while he was in his home country(Ethiopia) at Ministry of Agricultural and Rural development as well as in ministry of Defence in the development of Information and communication technology in developing country will help him to implement the vision of one laptop per child project. Working towards our OLPCorps proposal, Dagmawi is the coordinator of the team and he is responsible for activities related of project leader.
-The second member of the team is Demerew k. Tesfaye, is currently doing his master’s thesis on distributed real-time network management. Furthermore he has a double masters degree, the first one is in computer science and the second one is in Network services and systems-which is in progress. He has also taken Short term IT trainings and certifications on CCNA1, CCNA2, CCNA3, CCNA4 and CCNP1, Oracle10g Database Administration, UNIX operating system, As/400 iseries Concepts and Facilities. He has five(5) years of experience on different position at Ethiopia Electric Power Corporation and other institutions as programmer and Database Administrator with a strong knowledge of software development with C++, RPG/400 and Java programming languages.<br />