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OER4Schools

2014-12-15T11:49:45Z

Mugabx01: /* Introduction */

{{OER4S
|title=OER4Schools
|session=0}}__NOTOC__ {{DISPLAYTITLE:The OER4Schools Professional Learning Resource}}
= Introduction=

'''''"If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow."'''''

John Dewey1

[[Image:Eness IMG 0785 square.jpg|link=OER4Schools|266px]]MUGABO Jean Claude//raspberry pi in education

[[Image:CCElogo.jpg|link=CCE|150px|The Centre for Commonwealth Education|thumb]]
[[Image:CETlogo.png|link=http://www.commonwealtheducationtrust.org/|150px|The Commonwealth Education Trust|thumb]]
This is the professional learning resource of the OER4Schools project at the [[CCE|Centre for Commonwealth Education]]. For more information about this project, visit [http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/cce/initiatives/projects/oer4schools/ the OER4Schools project page]. To learn more about the aims and content of the resource, see [[OER4Schools/Overview|Overview]]. If you are planning to use this resource, then do contact us to see whether we can collaborate in some way.

The resource was collaboratively authored, primarily by [http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/hennessy/ Sara Hennessy], [http://www.bjohas.de Bjoern Hassler], Nitu Duggal, Wei Shin Leong, and Janet Blair of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, and Abel Makonga and Agness Tembo of Chalimbana Basic School (Chalimbana, Zambia). Other contributors to specific pages are acknowledged there. A number of aspects of the OER4Schools programme at Chalimbana Basic School have been supported by http://www.aptivate.org.
MUGABO Jean Claude///Rwanda..Kigali

= Overview of the resource =

Through our research in Zambia we developed a practical professional development (PD) programme for school-based
teacher education, supporting teachers to embed interactive
methods of teaching and learning into classroom practice through
the exploitation of mobile technologies. It moves beyond technology and skills-focused initiatives
by highlighting the crucial role of teacher support in promoting innovation and experimentation
with teaching styles. Our overall goal is to focus on learning, meeting the challenge of moving
away from superficial repetition of facts towards deeper learning and understanding. We aim to
develop teachers’ capability to use tablets, netbooks, e-book readers, Open Educational
Resources (OER) and Open Source software effectively to support students’ learning in
mathematics and science through active participation, dialogue and collaborative enquiry. Our
participatory approach especially values the ‘voices’ of everybody involved. The research is
founded on principles of effective pedagogy in teacher education and classroom teaching in sub-Saharan Africa. The professional learning programme is suitable for low-resourced primary
schools and colleges (combined with teaching practice), and freely available as an OER. The
resource consists of 25 two-hour sessions, organised in five units, covering interactive teaching
principles, group work, questioning, dialogue, Assessment for Learning, and enquiry-based
learning. Each session is clearly structured and includes unique, professionally filmed video
exemplars of interactive practices in Zambian and South African classrooms, accompanying texts
co-authored with teachers, and facilitator notes. It builds on an established, sustained teacher-led
process for sharing and trialling new practices and digital resources; peer observation; discussion
and joint reflection.

= Units in the professional learning resource =
[[OER4Schools/Overview|Overview of the resource]]:
{{: OER4Schools/Contents }}

See the [[OER4Schools/Detailed outline|detailed outline]] for more information.

The content is developed collaboratively between our facilitators Abel Makonga and Agness Tembo at Chalimbana Basic School and our team at the Centre for Commonwealth Education. We currently only have English language versions. However, you can use Google Translate to view
[http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=fr&u=http%3A%2F%2Forbit.educ.cam.ac.uk%2Fwiki%2FOER4Schools French], [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=pt&u=http%3A%2F%2Forbit.educ.cam.ac.uk%2Fwiki%2FOER4Schools Portuguese], [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=sw&u=http%3A%2F%2Forbit.educ.cam.ac.uk%2Fwiki%2FOER4Schools Swahili] and other language versions.

You can also join us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/oer4schools/

= A quick overview =

The video below gives an overview of what the resource has to offer and how it has been used and developed:

{{: Video/Africa Colloquium March 2014 }}

{{: Video/Introduction to Chalimbana Basic School.m4v }}

{{OER4S_NextSession}}

OER4Schools

2014-12-15T11:45:54Z

Mugabx01: /* Introduction */

{{OER4S
|title=OER4Schools
|session=0}}__NOTOC__ {{DISPLAYTITLE:The OER4Schools Professional Learning Resource}}
= Introduction=

'''''"If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow."

John Dewey1

[[Image:Eness IMG 0785 square.jpg|link=OER4Schools|266px]]
[[Image:CCElogo.jpg|link=CCE|150px|The Centre for Commonwealth Education|thumb]]
[[Image:CETlogo.png|link=http://www.commonwealtheducationtrust.org/|150px|The Commonwealth Education Trust|thumb]]
This is the professional learning resource of the OER4Schools project at the [[CCE|Centre for Commonwealth Education]]. For more information about this project, visit [http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/centres/cce/initiatives/projects/oer4schools/ the OER4Schools project page]. To learn more about the aims and content of the resource, see [[OER4Schools/Overview|Overview]]. If you are planning to use this resource, then do contact us to see whether we can collaborate in some way.

The resource was collaboratively authored, primarily by [http://www.educ.cam.ac.uk/people/staff/hennessy/ Sara Hennessy], [http://www.bjohas.de Bjoern Hassler], Nitu Duggal, Wei Shin Leong, and Janet Blair of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education, and Abel Makonga and Agness Tembo of Chalimbana Basic School (Chalimbana, Zambia). Other contributors to specific pages are acknowledged there. A number of aspects of the OER4Schools programme at Chalimbana Basic School have been supported by http://www.aptivate.org.
MUGABO Jean Claude///Rwanda..Kigali

= Overview of the resource =

Through our research in Zambia we developed a practical professional development (PD) programme for school-based
teacher education, supporting teachers to embed interactive
methods of teaching and learning into classroom practice through
the exploitation of mobile technologies. It moves beyond technology and skills-focused initiatives
by highlighting the crucial role of teacher support in promoting innovation and experimentation
with teaching styles. Our overall goal is to focus on learning, meeting the challenge of moving
away from superficial repetition of facts towards deeper learning and understanding. We aim to
develop teachers’ capability to use tablets, netbooks, e-book readers, Open Educational
Resources (OER) and Open Source software effectively to support students’ learning in
mathematics and science through active participation, dialogue and collaborative enquiry. Our
participatory approach especially values the ‘voices’ of everybody involved. The research is
founded on principles of effective pedagogy in teacher education and classroom teaching in sub-Saharan Africa. The professional learning programme is suitable for low-resourced primary
schools and colleges (combined with teaching practice), and freely available as an OER. The
resource consists of 25 two-hour sessions, organised in five units, covering interactive teaching
principles, group work, questioning, dialogue, Assessment for Learning, and enquiry-based
learning. Each session is clearly structured and includes unique, professionally filmed video
exemplars of interactive practices in Zambian and South African classrooms, accompanying texts
co-authored with teachers, and facilitator notes. It builds on an established, sustained teacher-led
process for sharing and trialling new practices and digital resources; peer observation; discussion
and joint reflection.

= Units in the professional learning resource =
[[OER4Schools/Overview|Overview of the resource]]:
{{: OER4Schools/Contents }}

See the [[OER4Schools/Detailed outline|detailed outline]] for more information.

The content is developed collaboratively between our facilitators Abel Makonga and Agness Tembo at Chalimbana Basic School and our team at the Centre for Commonwealth Education. We currently only have English language versions. However, you can use Google Translate to view
[http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=fr&u=http%3A%2F%2Forbit.educ.cam.ac.uk%2Fwiki%2FOER4Schools French], [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=pt&u=http%3A%2F%2Forbit.educ.cam.ac.uk%2Fwiki%2FOER4Schools Portuguese], [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=sw&u=http%3A%2F%2Forbit.educ.cam.ac.uk%2Fwiki%2FOER4Schools Swahili] and other language versions.

You can also join us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/oer4schools/

= A quick overview =

The video below gives an overview of what the resource has to offer and how it has been used and developed:

{{: Video/Africa Colloquium March 2014 }}

{{: Video/Introduction to Chalimbana Basic School.m4v }}

{{OER4S_NextSession}}

Resources

2014-11-26T08:32:13Z

Mugabx01:

As you know, OER4Schools is the main programme, but sometimes we explore sidelines to this. Those in RWANDA may remember the ANTSIT programme, in which we explored tablets in addition to XO. Recently, a few of you have also met the Raspberry Pi http://www.raspberrypi.org/. Based on the explorations, we're going to add some Raspberry Pi based ideas to OER4Schools.
Raspberry Pi
www.raspberrypi.org
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OER4Schools/XO familiarisation

2014-11-19T15:06:45Z

Mugabx01:

<noinclude>{{OER4SchoolsRinfo
|topic=Basic ICT skills
}}</noinclude>

'''XO familiarisation activity''' <br />
[[Image:Pupils_working_with_netbook.jpg|350px|alt=small group of pupils working with a netbook computer|thumb]]
Take the school XO's to your class - making sure that they are carried and used according to the rules set by the school.

The pupils work in mixed ability groups (with computers distributed evenly). Groups do not need to progress at the same speed: There will be faster groups and slower groups. However, the faster groups should be helping the slower groups. If a fast group has managed to do something, their task is to split up and help others to reach the same stage!

'''Activity''':
# '''Exploration of turning on a computer. '''Allow pupils to figure out how to turn them on (find the power button). The pupils should be discussing in the groups. Encourage them e.g. by making analogies with other electrical devices. If they are stuck, show one group, and ask that group to show others. When they have managed to turn on the computers, they should observe what happens: when XO is being opened for the first time, you have to login by writing your name. Remember that faster groups should help slower groups.
# '''Exploration of the login screen. '''Ask groups: What do you need to do next? What do the parts of the XO do? Can you give names to the parts? Give them plenty of time to discover and press things on the XO, without telling them. They can’t really break anything if they are careful. Let them help each other and discuss with each other what they are finding out.
# '''Exploration of the desktop. '''They now need to apply their new knowledge: “click” on “username” ''classroom'', and “enter” the “password” ''student. ''They now see the desktop. When a group is ready to move to the next stage, the teacher demonstrates how to open a web browser (to that group). Ask the students to do the same. Again, the students find out what happens. Don’t worry if they can’t open the web browser - let them try to open whatever applications they like. Then after a while repeat the instructions about opening a web browser to the same group. Again, get the groups to help each other find how to open the browser. They should immediately share anything they find out with the whole class.

This activity is an example of enquiry-based learning, which we will cover in much greater detail later in the [[OER4Schools]] programme.
[[Category:OER4S CPD]]
[[Category:Rwanda]]

OER4Schools/XO familiarisation

2014-11-19T14:59:42Z

Mugabx01:

<noinclude>{{OER4SchoolsRinfo
|topic=Basic ICT skills
}}</noinclude>

'''XO familiarisation activity''' <br />
[[Image:Pupils_working_with_netbook.jpg|350px|alt=small group of pupils working with a netbook computer|thumb]]
Take the school XO's to your class - making sure that they are carried and used according to the rules set by the school.

The pupils work in mixed ability groups (with computers distributed evenly). Groups do not need to progress at the same speed: There will be faster groups and slower groups. However, the faster groups should be helping the slower groups. If a fast group has managed to do something, their task is to split up and help others to reach the same stage!

'''Activity''':
# '''Exploration of turning on a computer. '''Allow pupils to figure out how to turn them on (find the power button). The pupils should be discussing in the groups. Encourage them e.g. by making analogies with other electrical devices. If they are stuck, show one group, and ask that group to show others. When they have managed to turn on the computers, they should observe what happens: when XO is being opened for the first time, you have to login by writing your name. Remember that faster groups should help slower groups.
# '''Exploration of the login screen. '''Ask groups: What do you need to do next? What do the parts of the XO do? Can you give names to the parts? Give them plenty of time to discover and press things on the XO, without telling them. They can’t really break anything if they are careful. Let them help each other and discuss with each other what they are finding out.
# '''Logging in. '''When groups have figured out how to type text, tell one group about the username and password, and see whether they can enter them. When they have managed to do so, they should immediately help other groups to reach the same stage.
## username: ''classroom''
## password: ''student''
# '''Exploration of the desktop. '''They now need to apply their new knowledge: “click” on “username” ''classroom'', and “enter” the “password” ''student. ''They now see the desktop. When a group is ready to move to the next stage, the teacher demonstrates how to open a web browser (to that group). Ask the students to do the same. Again, the students find out what happens. Don’t worry if they can’t open the web browser - let them try to open whatever applications they like. Then after a while repeat the instructions about opening a web browser to the same group. Again, get the groups to help each other find how to open the browser. They should immediately share anything they find out with the whole class.

This activity is an example of enquiry-based learning, which we will cover in much greater detail later in the [[OER4Schools]] programme.
[[Category:OER4S CPD]]
[[Category:Rwanda]]

OER4Schools/XO familiarisation

2014-11-19T14:51:27Z

Mugabx01:

<noinclude>{{OER4SchoolsRinfo
|topic=Basic ICT skills
}}</noinclude>

'''XO familiarisation activity''' <br />
[[Image:Pupils_working_with_netbook.jpg|350px|alt=small group of pupils working with a netbook computer|thumb]]
Take the school XO's to your class - making sure that they are carried and used according to the rules set by the school.

The pupils work in mixed ability groups (with computers distributed evenly). Groups do not need to progress at the same speed: There will be faster groups and slower groups. However, the faster groups should be helping the slower groups. If a fast group has managed to do something, their task is to split up and help others to reach the same stage!

'''Activity''':
# '''Exploration of turning on a computer. '''Allow pupils to figure out how to turn them on (find the power button). The pupils should be discussing in the groups. Encourage them e.g. by making analogies with other electrical devices. If they are stuck, show one group, and ask that group to show others. When they have managed to turn on the computers, they should observe what happens: when xo is being opened for the first time, you have to login by writing your name. Remember that faster groups should help slower groups.
# '''Exploration of the login screen. '''Ask groups: What do you need to do next? What do the parts of the netbook do? Can you give names to the parts? Give them plenty of time to discover and press things on the netbook (with the password screen up), without telling them. They can’t really break anything if they are careful. Let them help each other and discuss with each other what they are finding out.
# '''Logging in. '''When groups have figured out how to type text, tell one group about the username and password, and see whether they can enter them. When they have managed to do so, they should immediately help other groups to reach the same stage.
## username: ''classroom''
## password: ''student''
# '''Exploration of the desktop. '''They now need to apply their new knowledge: “click” on “username” ''classroom'', and “enter” the “password” ''student. ''They now see the desktop. When a group is ready to move to the next stage, the teacher demonstrates how to open a web browser (to that group). Ask the students to do the same. Again, the students find out what happens. Don’t worry if they can’t open the web browser - let them try to open whatever applications they like. Then after a while repeat the instructions about opening a web browser to the same group. Again, get the groups to help each other find how to open the browser. They should immediately share anything they find out with the whole class.

This activity is an example of enquiry-based learning, which we will cover in much greater detail later in the [[OER4Schools]] programme.
[[Category:OER4S CPD]]
[[Category:Rwanda]]

OER4Schools/ICT/01 Netbook familiarisation/rw

2014-11-19T14:36:49Z

Mugabx01:

{{ednote|text=

The following activity, as with other activities in later sessions, assumes that you have some netbooks available. If you have other forms of ICT available you could use those instead. In future sessions, we will use internet browsing, spreadsheets and GeoGebra among other applications, so it would be useful if you have access to these.

If you do not have any ICT at all, you can spend longer on the other activities in this session.
}}

{{activity|stgw|: Practical activity exploring XO laptops|20}} Here is a XO laptops familiarisation activity that you can use with your students, spend some time working through the activity yourself now and think about how your students will respond to it. Make sure that you can answer all of the questions.

{{oinc|OER4Schools/XO familiarisation}}

Here is a Zambian teacher's experience of introducing the netbooks to her class:

{{speechbubbleleft|text=The netbook familiarisation was impressive. Each and every pupil participated fully. What was more impressive was the fact that some of the pupils were very much acquainted with the computers. They can open, they can play games, they are also able to type, they are able to close. So they were able to help others. Of course this no go without challenges. Some pupils had never seen computers before. Nor touch them. So it was difficult for them. However, after being helped, they found it so interesting that they did not want to stop. Just look forward to working with them once again.
}}
{{: OER4Schools/Learning about ICT with self-awareness }}

{{ednote|text=
Each participant should log in and out several times. If they just do it once (or even just watch once), they will not remember. How difficult do they find typing at this stage? How difficult will your students find it? Encourage discussion about this during this part of the session.
}}
[[Category:Rwanda]]