Issue 1 April 4-11, 2015 Opening of Digital Inclusion Centres...... 1
Nigel Stoneham boosts Online School Links .......................... 2
Learn With Grandma Easter Message ......... 2
Headteachers set for the 10th eLearning Africa Conference in Ethiopia
A learner’s View of KAWA eLearning Platform
KAWA eLearning
ADDRESSING THE SKILLS AND INFORMATION NEEDS OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITY THROUGH DIGITAL INCLUSION CENTRES. Formal Education has been praised World over for creating a skilled population but after school, most people unconsciously forget the skills they learnt but it is worse for those who acquired no skill. There are so many Non Government Organizations supplementing on government services aimed at the protection and preservation of our natural resources such as forests, rivers, lakes and the quality of soil. On the contrary, there is less concern for the promotion and protection of the human resource, a very important of all. Most civil servants apart from a few who are upgrading in their careers, a good number of them have either remained at the same level or degenerated much more than the time they qualified from institutions. The reading culture is no longer there apart from few headlines from Newspapers and radio summaries. There are no resource centres in rural areas where they can acquire up to date information apart from drinking joints. The Ministry of Education, Sports, Science and Technology in partnership with the British Government established teacher Resource Centres in every District in 1997 to cub the above mentioned problems. These resources were to serve as focal points for
refresher courses and main server point for the rare instructional resources in the district. However, these centres closed after serving for five years because the funds stopped flowing in. They were handed over to the Districts which apart of that of Wakiso, the rest have remained redundant. In April 2014, the Patron of KAWA and founder of Learn with Grandma reopened these resource Centres in the Districts of Mubende and Kibaale to the excitement of the workers. These are now Digital inclusion Centres being upgraded to serve not only teachers but the whole community including the young and the elderly. KAWA held a meeting with the district ASSHU chairperson on Wednesday April 1, 2015 at Neptune Paradise in Mubende. More about the funding will be discussed next week on Tuesday with all the head teachers of the 66 secondary schools together with the District officials at the resource centre. wwamanga@yahoo.com
Minister of Education, Sports, Science and Technology, Jessica Alupo (right) in a discussion with Moses Wamanga, KAWA National Chairman about the implementation of e-learning in Secondary Schools at Makerere University Business School
Valerie Wood Gaiger (2nd right) founder of Learn with Grandma reopened the Teacher Resource Centres in Mubende and Kibaale.
ONLINE SCHOOL LINKS To fully benefit from the power of internet, Ugandan secondary and primary schools are being connected online through websites and blogs to benefit from the upcoming collaboration with schools and colleges abroad. This is one of the resolutions passed by headteachers who attended the eLearning Uganda action seminar at Trinity College Nabbingo in May last year. The projected is being implemented in partnership with Nigel Stoneham, a Vienna - Austria based Happiness Coach and online English language trainer. Thirty schools already have had their websites designed by KAWA. The target is to have 3000 schools online and linked to the Ministry of education and Sports and ASSHU for easy communication and collaboration. Read from www.kawauganda.blogspot.com