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#ClassroomOnPhone

by | May 14, 2021 | Family Intimacy, Our PJects, School Competition and Activities

Co-Founder Yine Yenki asking pupils' about their home learning during the pandemic
A P.5 pupil of JCC Model Pr. Sch shows off a memory card containing her science content
A P.5 pupil of JCC Model Pr. Sch shows off a memory card containing her math content
A P.5 pupil of St. Thomas Pr. Sch shows off a memory card containing her math content
Pupils look on - during a virtual learning session
A P.5 pupil shares her views about learning Mathematics virtually
An interactive session between pupils and Co-Founder, Yine Yenki
Pupils paying keen attention during a virtual learning session

#ClassroomOnPhone series (GoGirls learning podcast)

#ClassroomOnPhone is a pre-recorded learning program where learners are taught science subjects with the aim of enhancing the love and practice of science in primary and secondary school students.

When South Sudan went into a lock down in March 2020 due to the pandemic, we had a conservation with parents and teachers who were beneficiaries of our Time To Shine ICT #TTOSICT project on how they were and their children coping up with the closure of schools. And that’s when the GoGirls team embarked on a research on Virtual learning methods for Offline communities as part of its Access to Skills and Knowledge network #ASKnet Project.

During this time, we held workshops to introduce South Sudanese primary and secondary school Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) teachers to virtual learning, including their definition, examples, content development for virtual learning, challenges of virtual learning among others. Teachers explored virtual learning platforms both online and offline and mockup projects to create content for virtual learning.

The team further interacted with 25 students who were beneficiaries of #TTOSICT project in their various communities to know the challenges faced by students during the pandemic so that to build a knowledge base to help us tailor our training activities to the current situation. The interaction with them revealed that girls didn’t have time to read due to several home chores, noisy environment during the day so they can’t concentrate, lack of electricity and for those whom their schools provided with reading materials found Science subjects to be the most boring and hard subjects to study alone.

These findings were shared with the teachers who were providing these students with handouts and holiday packages to study at home. The teachers too found out that most of the assignments these students answered were not done by them hence proving not effective. This led us to explore cheap affordable technologies by our communities such using Micro SD cards and feature (button) phones since they are very affordable and accessible by everyone.

Together with GoGirls teams, the teachers from four primary and secondary schools developed STEM learning material with an integration of Arts (STEAM) in the form of podcasts loaded on micro SDs for a selected group of learners.

The students were introduced to virtual learning platforms and how to access these platforms including access to this content in form of podcasts hence, #ClassroomOnPhone.

Here is the link to the podcasts

https://anchor.fm/classroomonphone/episodes/ClassroomOnPhone-Series-GoGirls-learning-Podcast-ergreh

Family Visit Program

Family Visit Program

by | Mar 5, 2019 | Family Intimacy, Our PJects, School Competition and Activities

GoGirls Family Visits

In this program, we reach out to families of the students we mentor, educate the parents about what we are teaching their child during our mentorship program and have conservations surrounding their child’s behavior, performance and challenges they face which gives us first hand information from both the parent and child.

Objective

Our aim is diversity in peace and at grass root level: a family is the smallest unit of a nation or nations and the world. No peace at home means kids can’t perform well at school, Parents can’t perform at work, Wives can’t be good wives in a home, husbands beat their wives and the entire family end up in chaos.

In most cases, children raised in such homes end up joining gangs, alcoholism due to lack of guidance and examples to learn from at home in other words (lack parent role models) and the result is living recklessly lives which most of us have witnessed in our communities.

Thus, many homes are in chaos, communities are affected as many of these kids end up being thieves, girls’ dropout of schools resulting into early marriage and the result is continuous to generations, only a few come out of such situations.

Many communities in chaos affects various communities of a nation. Then a whole nation not at peace, people fighting themselves because they want to release anger, we end up with Communities at war! Nations at war! The world at war…

The list of possibilities is endless.

 

Relevant Link

https://undpsouthsudan.exposure.co/propelling-the-gogirls-together