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The project emphasizes youth as the facilitators of discussion and the creators of valuable communal media. It expands learning beyond the classroom and develops students' literacy skills, now models and methods of teaching, learning, and cultural preservation. Resource limit Bura schools, which rely primarily on rote memorization; students are considered "receptacles" to be filled with information. Providing each child with a computer can change this: "children will learn by doing, and by teaching one another and their community. In this way, they will become active collaborators in the construction of knowledge."

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Innovation-: An Open Platform for Mobile Applications

Sun, 08/29/2010 - 13:28 — sandra

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THIS INFORMATION is NOT AUTHORED BY SMALL SOLUTIONS BIG IDEAS. Please see the website discussed here. Make comments and suggestions for Small Solutions projects. These are the powerful ideas we want our partners to be considering.
Sandra Thaxter, Alan Papert, Edo Kombana
This information was posted as one of the Ideas on the website for a US State Department site www.apps4africa.org. This is one of the "Ideas" submitted to this competition.

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Butterfly Project at Newburyport Farmer's Market July 25th

Fri, 07/23/2010 - 05:35 — sandra

Project Butterfly is a newly formed environmental initiative in the Newburyport area by a group of venture capitalists, international volunteer groups [NGOs], artists, farmers, and other citizens. Its mission is expressed as below:

Don't Miss This Event July 9th Mission Oak Grill Newburyport MA

Thu, 06/17/2010 - 09:55 — sandra

Engaged Learning with XO

Thu, 06/17/2010 - 09:22 — sandra

Hands of Charity Teams have been working all winter with groups of children in the Bungoma district at the Bukokholo primary and secondary schools. The focus has been on developing an HIV AIDS curriculum that engages children in learning information that applies to their need to know in the context of their own lives. The UNICEF report on HIV/AIDS education in Kenya is that the material was abstract.