Just back from Cambodia and Vietnam, I returned to Wende School to see how things were going. With the help of Julien and Jason, they already incorporated computer classes into their existing curriculum, once a week for grade 3 to grade 6 (grade 1 and 2 should have it soon) teaching children how to use [...]
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Open Source Education and Loongson reduce the digital divide for migrant workers kids
After months of work from corporations, institutions, universities, Open Source communities and NGOs the first fully Open Source based lab is launched in Beijing. The purpose of organizing this Opening ceremony on November 12th is to raise concerns of Migrant Schools education from different organizations! Everyday hundreds of thousands of children from migrant workers families [...]
Wende School Trial – Part 3
In Wende School Trial Part 1 and Part 2, I mainly introduced how we identified the school for trial, our preparation work and part of the training. In this post, I will cover the demonstration class that teachers give us and how efficient our training has been so far. With the target of having the [...]
Wende School Trial – Part 2
Welcome to part 2 of my early post written in October 2009 which is mainly about the school selection, the preparation work and training. During the school summer holiday, we went back to Wende School a few times and discussed with the headmaster about the computer room decoration and set up. We look at things [...]
Wende School Trial – Part 1
Introduced by the LEAD organization in early 2009, we have been going to numerous Migrant Workers’ Children Schools especially in ChaoYang district to give training to teachers and headmasters about computers, Open Source and Open Education in schools. For most of them, it’s the first time for them to hear about Open Source and Open [...]
