| | The purpose of school is to promote self-reliance and gain knowledge, voice, and skills which will give them access to better employment opportunities and earnings which enhance their equality and independence. In reality, from the outlook of my lived experience in Dadaab and from the reading, most of the students completed their secondary education with little or no change seen in them. For this reason, the current curriculum is being blamed for most of this failure in school because it is revolving around the teachers. I believe this is the driving force behind students’ stagnation that brought dependence and idleness within Dadaab camps. To sum up my thought, here is a quote in our language, “Anywaa winyo ki wang” translated to “Deep understanding comes with observation and touching”. Reading the two articles gave me the spirit to confirm the true meaning behind this quote. To me, the best way to transfer long-lasting knowledge to young people who will be responsible, critical thinkers and problem-solving oriented who are ready to take up the mental of leadership to serve diligently is through learning and practice. I believe it is more powerful than a teacher center classroom where the teacher is believed to be the source of knowledge (Mitchell et al, 2016, p. 207). With the hope of a competency-based curriculum, navigating from the old way of teaching to CBC; students will have the opportunity to learn from each other experience and as well from the teacher. | | The purpose of school is to promote self-reliance and gain knowledge, voice, and skills which will give them access to better employment opportunities and earnings which enhance their equality and independence. In reality, from the outlook of my lived experience in Dadaab and from the reading, most of the students completed their secondary education with little or no change seen in them. For this reason, the current curriculum is being blamed for most of this failure in school because it is revolving around the teachers. I believe this is the driving force behind students’ stagnation that brought dependence and idleness within Dadaab camps. To sum up my thought, here is a quote in our language, “Anywaa winyo ki wang” translated to “Deep understanding comes with observation and touching”. Reading the two articles gave me the spirit to confirm the true meaning behind this quote. To me, the best way to transfer long-lasting knowledge to young people who will be responsible, critical thinkers and problem-solving oriented who are ready to take up the mental of leadership to serve diligently is through learning and practice. I believe it is more powerful than a teacher center classroom where the teacher is believed to be the source of knowledge (Mitchell et al, 2016, p. 207). With the hope of a competency-based curriculum, navigating from the old way of teaching to CBC; students will have the opportunity to learn from each other experience and as well from the teacher. |
| | Brayboy & Maughan (2009). Indigenous Knowledge and the Story of the Bean, Harvard Educational Review. | | Brayboy & Maughan (2009). Indigenous Knowledge and the Story of the Bean, Harvard Educational Review. |
| − | The emerging range of technologies around the world has brought people to live close to each other in a world dominated by phone, iPods, blogs and SMS messages Cope and Kalantzis (2009). Today in Dadaab, students in secondary and primary school, many of them have smart phone used for communication mainly on WhatsApp. Early today, I have interacted with my friend who is a teacher at one of the secondary school and he confirmed how the use of media in school becoming part of learning. I was so happy to relate what the teacher told me and what I have learned in this course. He explained that some of the teachers use WhatsApp to communicate with their students through this application and affirm the frequently use of computer lab to do more research during their learning period. | + | The emerging range of technologies around the world has brought people to live close to each other in a world dominated by phone, iPods, blogs and SMS messages Cope and Kalantzis (2009). Today in Dadaab, students in secondary and primary school, many of them have smartphones used for communication mainly on WhatsApp. Early today, I have interacted with my friend who is a teacher at one of the secondary school and he confirmed how the use of media in school becoming part of learning. I was so happy to relate what the teacher told me and what I have learned in this course. He explained that some of the teachers use WhatsApp to communicate with their students through this application and affirm the frequent use of computer labs to do more research during their learning period. |
| − | The formation of the New London Group in 1996 the term multiliteracies made my position strong to support the system within school. The New London Group (1996) believes that if students are taught through a multiliteracies way they will acquire the skills they need in the future to include employment opportunities and also be successful in other social environments. Here, Cope and Kalantzis (2009) reexamined the formation of the New London Group (1996) and determined that the basic shape of their findings had stood the test of time, through the changing world of technology, and is a useful guide to understanding and practice. | + | The formation of the New London Group in 1996 the term multiliteracies made my position strong to support the system within the school. The New London Group (1996) believes that if students are taught through a multiliteracy way they will acquire the skills they need in the future to include employment opportunities and also be successful in other social environments. Here, Cope and Kalantzis (2009) reexamined the formation of the New London Group (1996) and determined that the basic shape of their findings had stood the test of time, through the changing world of technology, and is a useful guide to understanding and practice. |