Geekcorps ISO Technology Trainers
7 September 2007 in News, Experts needed, Featured by Wayan Vota
Do you know how to train educators on information and communication technologies (ICT’s) in low-infrastructure environments? Show primary school teachers how to use audio/visual equipment, including computers, to enhance their lesson planning and educational content delivery when there might be intermittent power an no help desk?
Better yet, want to help design instructional videos and exercises on ICT in education to increase your impact, training local partners on your editing and post-production skills? Would you want to do all that in rural Kenya, a beautiful yet digitally disadvantaged East African country?
Then you’ll be excited to learn that Geekcorps has partnered with the Academy for Educational Development to work on USAID’s Teacher Education and Professional Development program in Kenya, and we’re looking for intrepid technology volunteers.
The overall program purpose is to improve access to quality education for children of historically marginalized populations. The program will provide a series of activities designed to expand access to basic education and also to improve the overall quality of the education that the primary level system provides.
The initial aim is assist the Government of Kenya in selected underserved geographic areas to increase primary level education access and equity while ensuring that the education policy environment, the information available to the system, and technical capabilities of the teachers and the primary school systems are enhanced.
Geekcorps will work with AED’s local counterpart, Computers for Schools Kenya, to provide capacity building and support, including the development of new technologies involved in taking educational documents and video to teachers in rural areas with limited or no infrastructure.
Geekcorps will increase the capacity of local service providers to transfer existing, and newly developed education-related materials geared toward teacher training, to CD and DVD. Last but not least, Geekcorps will work with school-based telecenters to develop self-sustainability by expanding their commercial service offerings and increasing their technology reliability.
If you want to be part of this intense yet rewarding endeavor, be sure to register with Geekcorps today! If you’re already registered, tell us you’re interested!
Papou Coulibaly is young boutique owner in Ouélessébougou. Previously, Geekcorps partnered with Papou to create a Cybertigi - an Internet access point for the local community via a wireless link to a Community Information & Learning Center (CLIC).