Introducing Internet-in-a-Box in Rwanda
After rolling out Internet-in-a-Box in Uganda, I traveled to Rwanda to conduct education technology integration training and to introduce the new Edify offline learning device to schools in the Kigali area.
TRAINING SCHOOL LEADERS
We conducted the Rwanda trainings specifically with the ten schools that will be testing our new learning device in the classroom. The director of each participating school along with the headmaster, or lead teacher, joined our training. The schools represented have started down the path of integrating education technology with learning so the questions and feedback they provided on the project were excellent.
TEACHER TRAINING IN RWANDA
For our second day of training, teachers from the same schools represented in the first day of training came to learn about using the new device in the classroom. This training represented a room full of educators skilled in education technology and ready to take their schools to another level. Innocent from our team offered a coding training that had the entire group engaged on their own devices and learning the critical skills that they will share with their students.
I also provided a demo on Kolibri and how to create content and organize students into classes for effective EdTech integration. Once I had added all of the teachers to Kolibri on screen to show them how it would work, I asked them to create their own classes and it was amazing to refresh the screen and see classes and content being organized by teachers around the room, all working offline and connected directly to our new device. One educator asked if we could take this project to his home country of Cameroon since he's spent the last several years trying to figure out a solution like this for students learning without reliable access to the internet.
With brilliant leaders and teachers like the groups we engaged with for the Internet-in-a-Box Project, Rwanda's students are in a good position for enhanced learning and increased employable skills in the years to come!
