| Kenya: We Welcome the Laptops, but Is This the Right Direction? |
| Posted by: Susan Einhorn |
| Listening to the President\'s inaugural speech offered me a fresh ray of hope - not really the laptops, but because of the focus on education. While I appreciate technology as a driver of development in modern-day Kenya, and its potential to change the paradigm of learning, there are several questions that come to mind. The promise is that every child joining class one in 2014, will receive a laptop. From our Uwezo evidence, however, only five per cent of schools across Kenya have a computer of any kind, and most teachers in our schools fall way below the bar of computer literacy. The first question therefore is, will the laptop be a toy, or a learning tool, or both, and will it be for school or home use? How are we conceptualising its use, whether for home or school, and who will guide these first graders on how to use the laptops, when both the teacher and the parent, are technology helpless? |
| Source: AllAfrica (Kenya) | Published: April 17th, 2013 |
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