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.
Date of implementation: 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.
Dates of Implementation: 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
African Children Stories
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.
