collaborative learning on ICT

At AKU, we are taught how invaluable collaboration is in learning. I was able to benefit from one such session when I brainstormed with colleagues on how to use eXe to create an e-Portfolio....and I have suceeded. Thank you people!

The context appropriate ICT learning tool

This is a session on ICT with Brown, all the way in canada, using a state of the art telephone. ICT surparses geographical and spartial limitations in learning.

Living in rural Africa really does affect the way we live

In rural Africa, it is the duty of the young girls to mind their younger sibling while their mother is engaged in other chores. This girl is at it while her peers are at school laying the foundations for a better future. In as much as we laud the governments for free primary school education in our region, such scenarios are still evident on the ground. There is need for more concerted efforts to ensure that all children have access to (quality) education in Africa.

Does where we live really have to affect the way we live?

These little girls are on their way to school. They live in Msasani area of Dar es Salaam. When it rains, the pathways here are literally cut off by murky puddles of highly polluted rain water. The girls had to remove their shoes to 'wade' to school... but they got there anyway. Hopefully, in spite of all the odds, they will go through their education and emerge as 'women to reckon with'. The incumbent President of Tanzania's childhood was not very different from these girls', but today he stands out as one of the Heroes of Africa. Go girls go...!

Where we live makes us wiser?

This is a typical setting in many African urban settlements. The children casually hang around this water hole (which I was told is atleast 20 feet deep). Does living in such environments make them risk-takers? wiser? more resilient to life's challenges? ....your thoughts?