View source for OER4Schools/ICT/01 Netbook familiarisation

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The following activity, as with other activities in later sessions, assumes that you have some {{Local|default=computers, netbooks, or tablets|Zambia=netbooks|Rwanda=XO laptops}} 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 if you doing the OER4Schools programme with ICT, then it's important that you have access to these.

If you are doing the programme without ICT, you can skip this part, and instead spend longer on the other activities in this session.
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{{activity|stgw|: Practical activity exploring {{Local|default=computers, netbooks, or tablets|Zambia=netbooks|Rwanda=XO laptop|defaultonly=1}}.|20}} Here is  {{Local|default=a technology|Zambia=a netbook|Rwanda=an XO laptop}} 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.

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Here is a Zambian teacher's experience of introducing 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.
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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.
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