EDUCATION IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES

What is education like in a third world country? Third world countries are poor and technology is still in the past. There are developments in few areas but not the vast majority. Most people can’t afford laptops let alone ipad, the large community tend to rely on cyber café’s which charge for this service. Wifi is available in a few hot pots but only chosen few can access this service.

How are children taught? Children are taught in the old fashion way, in some parts of the country, a classroom is under a tree, lack of resources like blackboards. The Government has an incentive to provide laptops but not even the teachers have the knowledge to use them.

What sort of class sizes do they have? The classes in some areas have a ratio of 40 pupils to one teacher; one class room and not enough resources to aid teaching.

How do children learn In and out of schools? Extra-curricular activities like sports take up most of times out of classroom; advantage of this is good weather outdoor in most tropical countries.

What sort of things do they learn about? Children learn about numbers, money management, IT using computers, Religion, etc.

 

Technology is Good in some areas but not even accessibility in rural parts of the country. The urban areas seem to have developed a lot and engaged with modern technology. a lot more needs to be done to improve teaching in third world countries.

COMPLETING CAROLINE'S ASSIGNMENT

Reflective blog;

In this assignment we are expected to complete an individual blog journal as an online portfolio of our work. students are expected to reflect on what they have learnt in this module '21st Century learning theories and contexts'. Flexibility to include practical experiences where appropriate for example a previous work expereince. Four main contexts are expected at the end of assignment; my chosen ones are: Montessori education, Key-stage 2 and secondary, Reggio approach and Play and the early years. This assignment is going to be fun to complete; after learning about creating our own blogs in visual communication lessons (IT). Creating a blog involves importing video's, embedding them onto our blog, similar to pictures and text. Interesting elements that we include in our blog will add marks. I am focussing on how i created my own blog for ideas, also looking at other educational blogs and learning how to present my assignment in the most interesting way. Great suport from IT teacher in this assignment just when i needed it, my confidence had multiplied since and now navigating my way through the pages is easier. I have developed skills in searching for data from the world wide web and tranfer it to my blog. In future, i can undertake similar assignments in this course with much confidence and knowledge of what i'm doing, makes more sense.

TED TALKS

  Charles Leadbeater: Education innovation in the slums

 Where would you look to see the future of education? Charles Leadbeater empasises that with current sattistics he would head for Finland; atleast in the last 20 years they have showed qualifications in their education system. Radical new forms of education sometimes are found in very strange places, Charles ended up in Monkey hill in Rio, Brazil and Kibera in Nairobi Kenya which has the fastest growing young population of the world. The innovation of using computers to learn has proved to provide transformative new ways of learning, he argues that this is how schools are meant to be now, he stresses that the idea of a cirriculum isn't very effective.learning is treated as something productive not academic! learning is made fun to open doors to innovation and create passionate amateurs who act like proffessionals.The slums needs more computer orinted learning and modern technology and not the curriculum. Education systems have failed to reach the people that they should and hit their targets but missed their point. Sustaining innovation will sustain existing instituitions and improve the whole learning experience within the city slums. more schools should reinvent themselves and view its features of learning. Efforts to supplement schools like Reggio Emillia ways of learning that support entire culture should be encouraged.Completely new and radical thinking deployed.

STUDENTS TODAY

 

This is a short clip about two and half minutes telling a story about learning in my University; University of Wales Trinity St Davids. The task requires my class to create a short movie on i'movie programme about students vision today at University. We have highlighted different areas and facilities available within our campus. This emphasisesed the use of IT skills to create the movie; also involved taking  still picture and videos, editing text into the clips and motion to creat the final movie. A very interesting task in this two hour IT session; This was a very emotional session for me as we had our Tutor Mandy Peace for the last time in this module. Next term we embark on a  new module and meeting  a new member of staff! bohoo, I will miss this module and i thanks Many for continued support during this module. As we prepare for one exam and finish our assignment for IT i will remember all the tips for learning that have been passed on to me and i do appreciate all that i have learnt especially in IT which was not one of my strong areas. I feel confident exploring my blog now and editing as i go along. Below is my finished video.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PHOTO STORY

My First Hair Brush!

What is this....Is it a toy?

Can i try....

For you? You try?

It's for me...

I like it!! Thank you..

Lovely for my hair!!

This is my photo story, my intention is to create a story about my daughter's first hair brush. I discovered that i had many different shots of her fiddling with her new gadget that she had met, Natasha is in the stage of growth where she is finding textures very interesting. Sensory motor skills? she feels all textures that comes across, tries it out with her mouth and all. Bang! my moment of a completed assignment! In this assignment we need to produce a story with still pictures only no video or animation. The photos must be individually taken, the theme and backgrounds has to the same and the story has to make sense. As i presented Natasha with her present i dint not know the end product of this moment, i just took shots one after the other of her reactions! I came up with the idea later as i was looking at the photos. I was glad to have killed two birds with one stone! job done.