OLPCorps DKTH ETHIO PROPOSAL

Contents of project proposal

General Overview

Universities: Dalarna University &Royal Institute of Technology(KTH),Sweden
Team Name: Ethio_Swed_ OLPCorps Team
Team Memembers: Tesfa Dagmawi sebsibie and Tesfaye Demerew Ketsela
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

we will allow peer collaboratio.This will give children the opportunity to both teach and learn from their peers
we will assist students to involve local community by interview community or family members, research their family and community history. one of our local university, rift vally University college,will help us to conduct the project in sharing their knowledg and materials
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

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	Unit Cost	Total Cost	Remark
1	Transport:Flight 1: Stockholm, Sweden (STO) to Kigali, Rwanda (KGL) Flight 2: Kigali, Rwanda (KGL) to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ADD) Flight 3: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ADD) to Stockholm, Sweden (STO)	06-Jun ' 09 (14 hr 40 min) 18-Jun ' 09 (2 hr 30 min) 11-sep ' 09 (19 hr)	$2,111.70	$4,223.40	row 1, cell 6
2	Transport of 100 Laptops, server and accessories				row 2, cell 6
3	Internal Transport (to and from the target place inside Ethiopia)				row 3, cell 6
4	Accommodation for 12 weeks in Ethiopia	row 4, cell 3	row 4, cell 4	row 4, cell 5	row 4, cell 6
5	Expenses for teachers, Selecte Community members and volunteers	row 5, cell 3	row 5, cell 4	row 5, cell 5	row 5, cell 6
6	Expense for training and Food/drinks/handhout	row 6, cell 3	row 6, cell 4	row 6, cell 5	row 6, cell 6

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 so there is no problem with this regards