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== Specifics == |
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Team Members: Fratern Tarimo, Jeff Mascornick http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Jjm4114, Cate Elander http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Celander |
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== Proposal StudentsTeach: Tanzania/ Walimu Wanafunzi : Tanzania == |
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Target School: St. Pius Academy |
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03/23/2009 |
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== Mission == |
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Recognizing that the curriculum at the school is very structured to ensure compliance with end of year tests, the XO Learning Program will take place after school and on Saturdays. The children will be on holiday until July 1st, which will allow team members time to train the teachers before the children arrive. Once the children return to school, the laptops will be deployed to the older children through after school and Saturday school training sessions. The older students will then be paired with children in lower grades for peer to peer (yet supervised) training. Laptop use will be integrated into actual classroom learning if and when deemed appropriate by teachers to ensure the support of the teachers and to afford them appropriate consideration and respect. |
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By the end of the program, students will be comfortable creating content by uploading pictures/audio to an interactive educational site,such as: Voice Thread http://voicethread.com/#home.b34902.i184117 or a similar service. The students in Durham will be doing the same, using their computers at school. In addition to the cultural enrichment via a [[constructivism]] model of learning, funding will be secured to allow children in Durham to select community improvement projects in Tanzania that have been identified by the children in Tarakea and posted to fundraising sites that aggregate many small donations from anywhere in the world – for instance: DonorsChoose http://www.donorschoose.org/homepage/main.html?zone=0, Global Literacy Foundation http://globalliteracy.net/, GlobalGiving http://www.globalgiving.com/ or by creating our own site for this purpose in order that it may be used by other OLCP projects. Using the St. Pius community center, the students will also have the opportunity to invite their families and friends to view these wikis/websites, including the cultural exchange information as well as the progression of funding for the community projects identified by their children. |
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StudentsTeach: Tanzania is dedicated to helping students educate themselves and their communities through the unique opportunities presented by the OLPC program and the XO laptop; through their increased access to knowledge, current events and communication with fellow students worldwide, students will be empowered to teach and spark change in their local communities and across the world. |
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• Cross-cultural education |
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• Increased peer-peer learning |
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• Empowerment of students as change-makers |
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• Empowerment of students in the collaborative creation of content in a true open source environment |
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Three deploying team members seek to deploy 100 XO laptops at St. Pius English Medium School in Tarakea, Tanzania: |
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• Community support |
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* Cate Elander: Project Coordinator; US Partnership Coordinator |
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* Jeff Mascornick: Technical Lead; Web-Learning Coordinator |
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* Fratern Tarimo: Tanzania Partnership Coordinator; Local Expert |
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== Why We Chose St. Pius Academy == |
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US Partners/Advisors |
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Due to the proposed partnership with elementary school students in the United States, we wanted to begin working with an English school in Tanzania. Local community members in Tanzania highly value opportunities to learn English because most universities teach their courses in English, and the language is crucial to success in the business world. St. Pius also has a community center where the children would be able to teach other community members to use the laptops, as well as present their work to the community. Our team also has a strong relationship with the school; Fratern Tarimo's mother is the Vice-Chair of the school's board of directors. In addition, St. Pius has an electric hook-up. The students' capacity for English, the electric hook-up and community center, and the strong relationship all significantly contribute to the sustainability of the project once the team members leave. |
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* Student Exchange Advisor: Thea Williamson, Program Manager, Global Partners Junior |
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* Technology/Learning Advisors: Elena Rue and Katie Hyde, Co-Project Coordinators, Literacy through Photography, Tanzania |
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* Technical Advisor: Kevin Hunter, Doctoral Student, North Carolina State University, Computer Engineering |
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Tanzania Partners/Advisors |
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• Strong relationship with Vice-Chair of Board at St. Pius |
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• Regular volunteers through the Volunteer Tanzania Program with Kuro Expiditions |
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* Deployment School Partner: Reverend Valerian Herman Marandu, Director, St. Pius English Medium |
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* Local Technical Advisor: Benjamin Crispin, Engineer, Zain Communications |
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• Strong local support network (high accountability) |
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• Revenue generated through community use of internet and proposed computer classes at the St. Pius Community Center |
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== The Project == |
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• Flexibility of graduating team members (to stay in the area until program is operating without team support) |
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• Strong leadership through Duke University Office of Community Affairs (stateside support of classroom partnership) |
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Note: We recognize, as we are planning this project remotely and are unable to have unlimited access to the students, teachers and leadership at St. Pius, most of the plans below will change. We are committed to flexible implementation, and will adapt the project to the needs of the teachers and students. |
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• Potential for fundraising through project promotion on sites that aggregate individual donations such as those listed above or by creating a new site for this purpose (which will be funded independently of this project). One of the team members, Jeff Mascornick, will investigate the feasibility of creating a website for this purpose. Again, we would like to stress the potential transferability of this approach to other OLPC projects and we encourage and would value input on this idea. |
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== Working Budget == |
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We plan to deploy 100 XO laptops to St. Pius English Medium. School will be in session throughout deployment, so we will work with teachers in the afternoon and on weekends. We have identified a community member familiar with laptops, to whom we will send the our XO prior to deployment; he will facilitate the first teacher trainings. Training of both teachers and students to reach a level of comfort with the XO that allows seamless curriculum integration and the completion of the projects discussed below may take more time than we anticipate; we will identify and extensively train specific teachers, community members and students so that the school will not be reliant on team members to initiate or continue projects. |
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Airfare: |
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Team Member One: $2000 (Washington DC to Kilimanjaro, roundtrip) |
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Team Member Two and Three: $1950X2 (Washington DC to Kigali, Kilimanjaro to Washington DC) |
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While the school supports about 250 students, we plan to first deploy the laptops to the three oldest classes (ages 8-10 years.) Emphasizing peer to peer learning, afterschool and Saturday sessions will be held for the older students to teach the younger students how to use the laptops. Although we will be unable to achieve a 1:1 ratio, we hope to use a library system to facilitate saturation. In this way, the students that are particularly interested in further XO exploration will have increased access to the laptops. We will work with teachers to integrate the laptops into daily lessons, sharing them between grades as appropriate. |
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Team Member Two and Three: $300X2 (Kigali to Kilimanjaro, one way) |
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Total Airfare Costs: $6500 |
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Recognizing that the curriculum at St. Pius is very structured to ensure compliance with National Exams, the extracurricular aspects of the XO Cultural and Community Exchange Project (CCEP) will occur after school and on Saturdays. CCEP will use a two-pronged approach to foster cultural exchange and student engagement in local community development: |
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Internet Delivery: $3200 (Best estimate; could be less if we are able to use a tower about 20 miles away) |
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* Through identified classroom parterships between St. Pius and Forest View Elementary in Durham, NC, and via Voice Thread K12, students will use audio and digital photography to teach each other about life in their respective communities |
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Internet Service: $1080 per month (We'd like to provide this for a few months as the entrepreneurial aspect is taking shape) |
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* Through facilitated discussion with teachers and community members, students will identify community needs and upload student-prioritized community projects to a website that aggregates small donations, Global Literacy Foundation or GlobalGiving; as projects are funded, students will become the trailblazers of important work in their communities |
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Perhaps most importantly, St. Pius students will be able to use the church’s fellowship hall to present their CCEP projects to their families and friends, transferring their knowledge to the local community. |
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Server Set-up: $300 (Estimate to hire expert for a week) |
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Room/Board: $500 (Paying modest monthly fee to stay in cabins owned by family; $20/week for food) |
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Tanzanian Visas: $100X2 (Only two team members require visas; the other team member is a Tanzanian citizen) |
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Misc. Expenses: $[???] (Ext. cords; laptop transport from Arusha to Tarakea; occasional local transport) |
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'''Total TENTATIVE Expenses: $12860 + Misc. Expenses''' (Team Members will fundraise to cover extra costs.) |
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'''Wish List:''' |
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Extra XOs (150 additional for total of 250) + Extra Server (1) |
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Projector and Projection Screens (1) |
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Classroom Set of Digital Cameras (40) |
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Each team member has experience working with local communities domestically and in developing countries, and we have all learned that local support and perspective is crucial to the success and sustainability of any project. Accordingly, we have been working daily to ensure that local leadership and community members have been consulted and engaged in the development of this proposal, and we will continue to engage their participation and leadership during deployment. In addition, we are confident that the following factors will increase the sustainability of the project: |
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GPS (2) |
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* Direct connection to school leadership; Fratern’s mother is the Vice-Chair of the St. Pius Board of Directors |
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(We will begin fundraising/soliciting donations for these items if and as soon as our project is funded.) |
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* Steady source of volunteers from local volunteer tourism program, Volunteer Tanzania |
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* Entrepreneurial internet cafe at St. Pius, offering low-cost computer lessons and web/document services, to sustain internet costs; an urgent need for these services has previously been identified |
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== Photos == |
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Revision as of 14:40, 24 March 2009
Proposal StudentsTeach: Tanzania/ Walimu Wanafunzi : Tanzania
03/23/2009
Mission
StudentsTeach: Tanzania is dedicated to helping students educate themselves and their communities through the unique opportunities presented by the OLPC program and the XO laptop; through their increased access to knowledge, current events and communication with fellow students worldwide, students will be empowered to teach and spark change in their local communities and across the world.
Team
Three deploying team members seek to deploy 100 XO laptops at St. Pius English Medium School in Tarakea, Tanzania:
* Cate Elander: Project Coordinator; US Partnership Coordinator * Jeff Mascornick: Technical Lead; Web-Learning Coordinator * Fratern Tarimo: Tanzania Partnership Coordinator; Local Expert
US Partners/Advisors
* US Classroom Partnership Partners: David Stein, Senior Schools Partnership Coordinator, Duke University Office of Community Affairs ; Linda Tugurian, Technology Coordinator, Forest View Elementary School * Student Exchange Advisor: Thea Williamson, Program Manager, Global Partners Junior * Technology/Learning Advisors: Elena Rue and Katie Hyde, Co-Project Coordinators, Literacy through Photography, Tanzania * Technical Advisor: Kevin Hunter, Doctoral Student, North Carolina State University, Computer Engineering
Tanzania Partners/Advisors
* NGO Partner: Vitalis Kimario, Director, Trans Regional Environment Technology Association (TRETA) * Deployment School Partner: Reverend Valerian Herman Marandu, Director, St. Pius English Medium * Local Technical Advisor: Benjamin Crispin, Engineer, Zain Communications
The Project
Note: We recognize, as we are planning this project remotely and are unable to have unlimited access to the students, teachers and leadership at St. Pius, most of the plans below will change. We are committed to flexible implementation, and will adapt the project to the needs of the teachers and students.
We plan to deploy 100 XO laptops to St. Pius English Medium. School will be in session throughout deployment, so we will work with teachers in the afternoon and on weekends. We have identified a community member familiar with laptops, to whom we will send the our XO prior to deployment; he will facilitate the first teacher trainings. Training of both teachers and students to reach a level of comfort with the XO that allows seamless curriculum integration and the completion of the projects discussed below may take more time than we anticipate; we will identify and extensively train specific teachers, community members and students so that the school will not be reliant on team members to initiate or continue projects.
While the school supports about 250 students, we plan to first deploy the laptops to the three oldest classes (ages 8-10 years.) Emphasizing peer to peer learning, afterschool and Saturday sessions will be held for the older students to teach the younger students how to use the laptops. Although we will be unable to achieve a 1:1 ratio, we hope to use a library system to facilitate saturation. In this way, the students that are particularly interested in further XO exploration will have increased access to the laptops. We will work with teachers to integrate the laptops into daily lessons, sharing them between grades as appropriate.
Recognizing that the curriculum at St. Pius is very structured to ensure compliance with National Exams, the extracurricular aspects of the XO Cultural and Community Exchange Project (CCEP) will occur after school and on Saturdays. CCEP will use a two-pronged approach to foster cultural exchange and student engagement in local community development:
* Through identified classroom parterships between St. Pius and Forest View Elementary in Durham, NC, and via Voice Thread K12, students will use audio and digital photography to teach each other about life in their respective communities * Through facilitated discussion with teachers and community members, students will identify community needs and upload student-prioritized community projects to a website that aggregates small donations, Global Literacy Foundation or GlobalGiving; as projects are funded, students will become the trailblazers of important work in their communities
Perhaps most importantly, St. Pius students will be able to use the church’s fellowship hall to present their CCEP projects to their families and friends, transferring their knowledge to the local community.
Sustainability
Each team member has experience working with local communities domestically and in developing countries, and we have all learned that local support and perspective is crucial to the success and sustainability of any project. Accordingly, we have been working daily to ensure that local leadership and community members have been consulted and engaged in the development of this proposal, and we will continue to engage their participation and leadership during deployment. In addition, we are confident that the following factors will increase the sustainability of the project:
* Direct connection to school leadership; Fratern’s mother is the Vice-Chair of the St. Pius Board of Directors * Steady source of volunteers from local volunteer tourism program, Volunteer Tanzania * Entrepreneurial internet cafe at St. Pius, offering low-cost computer lessons and web/document services, to sustain internet costs; an urgent need for these services has previously been identified
Photos
Tarakea, Tanzania
St. Pius Academy
Team member with St. Pius priest
Classroom at St. Pius Academy
English Materials at St. Pius
Class Rules at St. Pius
St. Pius students on their day off
Team member with local school children in Tarakea
