Transforming African Schools

05/10/2006

The human body was designed to walk, run, or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.
Cullen Hightower

A coalition of African leaders in education seek to transform education across the continent through a growing collection of online tools, research, and professional development resources. Efforts to build capacity from the ground up include:

One Million Computers for African Schools: providing refurbished computers, affordable software, content delivery, and "last mile" wireless capacity to bring educational resources to disadvantaged rural communities.
Guns to Computers: integrating technology resources into education and rehabilitation programs for former youth combatants in Angola, Liberia, and Rwanda.
Global Teenager Project: enhancing education and cross-cultural awareness through international online exchanges.
African SchoolNet Chamipions: establishing a cadre of educational pioneers with the skills to promote technological capacity in African schools.
African Teachers Network: strengthening the capacity of African educators through research-based online professional development.
ThinkQuest Africa: promoting collaborative learning and critical thinking among African learners while building educational content and Internet resources in African languages.

Learn more about these innovative programs at www.schoolnetafrica.net. Resources in English, French, Kiswahili, Portuguese, and Arabic.

Contributed by Kirsten Haugen.

World Forum 2007 The role of technology in supporting early childhood education worldwide will be one of the many topics addressed in the 2007 World Forum in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. To learn about this event, go to: http://www.worldforumfoundation.org/wf/wf2007/. At this World Forum, the second meeting of "EC eTeaching," bringing together pioneers from around the world in techology and early childhood education, will be held. For more information on EC eTeaching, contact [email protected].

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