The ECCR design guide is developed by Scratch Education Collaborative (SEC) to enhance creative coding among communities. This project will be implemented in partnership with Scratch Foundation to create equitable and sustainable learning opportunities for all. The project aims to impact 60 educators and 9000 students in Western Kenya by enhancing digital literacy skills, sustainable and inclusive learning practices, and developing curriculum-aligned resources to support creative coding in classrooms. It will involve comprehensive Teacher Professional Development workshops, specialised courses for educators and curriculum materials. To learn more or get involved in the project, reach out to us via the link below.
Programming in Scratch for Environmental Conservation at Foundational Skill Level
This project is supported by the National Geographic Society (Nat Geo) and aims to promote environmental conservation through coding education through Scratch. The project will explore what children can creatively design and build using Scratch Open-source tool products that focus on environmental conservation. It will focus on waste management, biodiversity preservation and sustainable resource use through scratch-based animation and games addressing environmental issues like pollution, deforestation and recycling. This project will involve student-centred learning and Teacher Professional Development training through online courses and offline mobile resources. Through the project, Edutab Africa aims to promote both digital literacy and environmental stewardship in 15 schools.
2020-Ongoing
African Children's Stories Podcast
This podcast is a site for children, teachers, and parents that aims to promote a reading culture in Africa. Most of the stories are from African Storybook – a digital initiative of the South African organization Saide, which promotes literacy for African children. The stories are openly licensed, which allows us to produce audio versions. We are grateful to the African Storybook for making the stories open source.We distribute the audio stories using WhatsApp, podcasts channels, Kolibri, YouTube, and different eLearning platforms. These stories have now reached over 5000 listens from across the world.
1/Nov/2021- 30th/July/2022
Edutab Africa is currently implementing a Project Based Learning pilot study aimed at using the Internet Free Educational Resources Bank (IFERB) developed by our partner Education Above All (EAA). The objective is to contextualise the IFERB resources into Kenyan context and closely work with the teachers in supporting project based learning in different learning areas
Coding and Robotics
Edutab has an experienced team of STEAM educators who spearhead coding and robotics sessions for children aged 8 to 18 years. The three-month, practical, skill-based course enables learners to progressively explore coding, software development, app creation, and animation. Additionally, we are proud to collaborate with the Kongoni Community Library and support the implementation of the Coding Summer School in partnership with Think Young.
2021 – 2022
This project is funded by National Geographic's COVID-19 Remote Learning Emergency Fund for Educators Grant. The main focus of this project was to design 10 lesson plans that would help bring the world of microscopy to students and help them bridge their personal experiences to a more global perspective on critical issues such as understanding the role of microorganisms in the ecosystem. We did this by providing students with direct access to the microscopic world using a flexible and easy-to-use Foldscopes and developing curricula together with Science teachers. With the development of these resources, we now aim to disseminate these lesson plans and continue working with teachers to incorporate more microscopy exploratory activities into curricula. We also intend to grow educational activities that will help grow a community of explorers in Africa and beyond that use inexpensive resources such as Foldscopes that bring joy into learning.