![]() ![]() One such thing was explaining typing on e-readers. The differences were small cultural ones she didn’t quite expect, but found work-arounds for, she said. ![]() In order to really engage them, you have to give them examples of ‘why’ a specific technology is used in the classroom.” “For instance, regardless of where teachers are, it’s not enough to teach them the ‘how’ you do something with technology. “I see a lot of similarities between teachers in Kilgoris and teachers at home,” she said, adding that adult learners have a pattern for understanding new technology. In both cases, Sara sees how many teachers latch onto the devices. At Kilgoris, primary school students will use e-readers. That is very exciting,” she said.Īt home, Sara teaches other teachers how to use technology and has helped establish an e-reader program at a local high school. “It is a surreal experience looking outside the classroom, seeing the expansive rural Trans Mara landscape, and knowing that inside the classroom education is changing on a global scale with access to literature via one piece of technology. She’s on the ground helping our Director of Research Zev Lowe, our Kenyan point person Betty Kihagi, and head teacher Shadrack Lemiso, among others, ramp up Kilgoris. Sara, a teacher from North Carolina, won Worldreader’s video contest and a trip to Kenya, courtesy of eDreams. She has a sense of something Worldreader already knows: Something big will be unfolding in many other classrooms around the world as the Books For mission gains momentum. This is where, in her mind, the vastness of what’s possible out there – out in Kenya, and out in places like it – intersects with the reality of what’s happening in the classroom right now. Later on, Sara watches some of the teachers gather under a tree to read (in Kiswahili), discuss, and laugh about one of the thousands of regional and international e-books available on their Kindles.įor Sara, these are aha! moments when everything clicks. Inside the low-lit classroom, under a dusty chalkboard, a group of 14 teachers involved in The Kilgoris Project fire up their e-readers and re-teach each other lessons learned the day before. From the top of the hill, she glances out at the wide-open spaces, and watches life – and cows – pass by. ![]() Sara Rhyne stands at the doorway of the Ntimigom School in Kenya. ![]()
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