SCHOOL TRACK
Open source software for schools
School environment requires several kinds of software, which can be the grade and timetable tracking software for teachers, ducational software for classes or the security software. More important is to make educational resources more effective, efficient, and ubiquitous by enhancing communication, and haring resources, for which this space is advocating the use of some open source and free software, open texts and lessons, and open curricula for the advancement of education and enrichment of school environment.
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Learning Curve
PDAs to mould the personality of high school children
Handheld devices are oosting interest and results in education among the school children in UK. The initiatives to provide schoolchildren with constant access to information hrough PDAs are coming with proven results. The handheld device is an nvaluable means of supporting personalised learning and has become a uzzword for ensuring the school children not to be treated like homogeneous groups of pupils but more like individuals, with different needs and interests. Some of the free software is so good and powerful that children can handle themselves. However, the devices are considered ideal for secondary schools rather than primary schools
Schools to be digitalised in Nairobi
A plan worth Sh18 billion has been made to equip schools and other education nstitutions with computers is launched in Nairobi. The National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Strategy for Education and Training plan aims at all educational institutions to be equipped with digital technology equipment in the next five years. It is also meant to ensure that the technology is fully integrated in all academic programmes and school management as well as Ministry of Education departments. It is also meant to ensure that the echnology is fully integrated in all academic programmes and school anagement as well as Ministry of Education departments. The plan is jointly prepared by the ministry and the Kenya ICT Trust Fund, which brings together more than 20 government agencies and private firms. Kenya has 20,000 rimary and 4,302 secondary schools, 641 of them private. The ratio of omputers to students in public universities stands at one to 45 while in econdary schools; it stands at one to 120 students.
