Teaching Ioma Life-changing Technologies
Ioma Combined School:
Why Are We Asking For....
tablets?
*** They will provide students with access to and experience using: a camera, word processing software, mapping software, the world wide web, social media, language translators, YouTube, photo and video editing software, email, graphing
calculators and other graphing software, and PDF versions of books
*** Less than 50% of the households in our region own a single book
*** Our school is fortunate to have electricity and Internet access
BUT
*** Students have no way of accessing the World Wide Web.
*** Students graduate and enter the modern job market with zero computer skills
*** Printing paper is scarce and printing costs are high
a multi-function printer?
*** Buying ink for our current printer is bankrupting the school's budget
*** Printing a mere 10 test papers per term per student is cost-prohibitive
*** Teachers are unable to give worksheets, handouts, and practice tests because of high ink costs
*** There is no way to enforce a copy/page limit on anyone with our current technology
projectors?
*** An estimated 2-3 months of instruction time is lost per academic year by students having to copy activities and make worsheets from the teacher's writing on the chalkboard
*** They will help us bypass the need for printed pages in many cases
*** Less than 50% of our students pass every subject
*** Teachers need and are ready to use more stimulating methods of visually presenting information (than chalk and a chalkboard)
help with our orchard?
*** Our school has a high population of OVC's (orphans and vulnerable children) whose only food is one 25lb. bag of maize meal per month.
*** Latest figures (2011) show that 46% of people living in Zambezi Region are HIV+, making access to fresh fruits and vegetables allthemore urgent
*** Our orchard is under constant threat of attack by goats and cattle
*** The materials we are using to secure the saplings from attack now (palm fronds used as rope and illegally harvested wood from the nature conservancy our community is in) are unsustainable, from both environmental and effectiveness standpoints.
Why should you...
care?
*** Sometimes people from the most difficult backgrounds go on to be wildly successful. You never know what the world is missing out on by unsupported intellectual curiosity and potential
be inspired to donate?
I know we're asking you for money here, but we hope you see it as a rare, unique opportunity for you to give to a cause that will
certainly and accountably have a direct, profound impact on the learning ability and quality of education at a school that is disadvantaged in almost every way imaginable.
If we get the tablets, it will also allow us to update our school's student-run international bulletin - The Hippo Herald - more often, and will allow it to be 100% by the students. Please take a look at The Hippo
Herald here:
https://www.facebook.com/namibian.classroom/timeline
