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		<title>Launching Ask a Stem Mentor Platform in Partnership with UNESCO and Safaricom Plc</title>
		<link>https://www.enezaeducation.com/2020/07/16/launching-ask-a-stem-mentor-platform-in-partnership-with-unesco-and-safaricom-plc/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Baraka]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2020 07:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are excited to partner with Safaricom Plc and UNESCO to provide digital mentorship for learners in high school interested in  Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)  through  the Ask ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2020/07/16/launching-ask-a-stem-mentor-platform-in-partnership-with-unesco-and-safaricom-plc/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We are excited to partner with Safaricom Plc and UNESCO to provide digital mentorship for learners in high school interested in  Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)  through  the Ask a STEM Mentor Platform.  </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The program involves working with role models and mentors to provide students with information on STEM subjects to enable them make informed career choices. Students will engage with tutors through programmes on local TV and community radio stations and also by asking and receiving any questions about STEM subjects via the interactive Ask a STEM mentor Platform on the shortcode 40291.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Being part of a project that engages STEM mentors was very interesting to us as it seeks to provide answers to secondary school students who are looking to enter into STEM careers. Both male and female students are given an equal chance to listen to presentations by the mentors via TV and radio programs. After, they get to ask questions related to STEM subjects and careers by sending the word MENTOR to 40291 and asking questions on the Ask a STEM Mentor platform.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Ask a STEM Mentor platform was inspired by our feature on Shupavu291 where students interact with our teachers by asking academic related questions. This has become popular since March as schools were shut down and students do not have access to teachers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learners in disadvantaged families who do not have access to smartphones and internet also get to interact with mentors because the platform is available via SMS. This creates equal access to mentors for students whether they are in Turkana or Nairobi.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Find the full press release </span><a href="https://www.safaricom.co.ke/about/media-center/publications/press-releases/release/974"><span style="font-weight: 400;">here</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span></p>
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		<title>Creating Equal Access to Revision Materials for all Students and Candidates in Kenya Through Shupavu291 Revision Papers</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Baraka]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2020 20:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In Kenya,  the academic achievement of primary and secondary students is assessed through the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of  Secondary Examination (K.C.S.E)  This examination which ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2020/07/12/creating-equal-access-to-revision-materials-for-all-students-and-candidates-in-kenya-through-shupavu291-revision-papers/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In Kenya,  the academic achievement of primary and secondary students is assessed through the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education (KCPE) and Kenya Certificate of  Secondary Examination (K.C.S.E) </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This examination which is offered by the Kenya National Examination Council (K.N.E.C &#8211; an organ of the Ministry of Education) is administered to primary school and secondary school students at the end class 8 and form 4 respectively; is crucial as it decides whether the learner makes the step forward or not.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Those in primary, doing well in the examination guarantees  them a spot at the best national and county schools in the country and for secondary students, a student needs to score a mean grade of C+ to be admitted into the public universities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For students to be able to perform well in these examinations, proper preparation ought to have taken place before they sit for the examinations. Good preparation not only ensures that students are less stressed and better prepared but also are likely much better to perform well</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unfortunately, for learners coming from disadvantaged households, this is not the case. High costs of revision materials is the main challenge that students and their parents encounter in their bid to get ready for these important examinations . The average cost of a revision booklet is Ksh 500.</span></p>
<p><a href="https://www.oxfam.org/en/kenya-extreme-inequality-numbers"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> As the gap between the rich and poor continues to widen</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, students whose parents are not able to afford to buy them revision books end up missing on preparing well for examinations. As a result, </span><span style="font-weight: 400;">stress and anxiety</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> are usually what the students go through in exam rooms hence bad performance.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">One of the ways that we are trying to prepare learners for exams is the curation of yearly and termly revision papers available for students learning on our SMS and Web platforms.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once you sign up on our Shupavu291, we have a feature named Revision papers; that enables students to access unlimited revision papers both for primary and secondary levels. Our main objectives when creating the papers are to: prepare learners for upcoming exams, evaluate what the learners have learnt and to prepare candidates for national exams.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With Shupavu291 past papers, learners can access all revision papers for all class levels making it easier to revise topics that they are not confident about at their own pace. Learners receive feedback to each and every question in bit sized explanations when they answer correctly or wrongly to a question.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">On top of revision papers, learners can access lessons and quizzes, offline Wikipedia </span>and can also ask questions to our teachers through the Ask a Teacher platform.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is no better feeling for students</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> than being prepared for upcoming exams, especially when they know they’ve put in the work. Constant revision means much less stress and anxiety, plus it allows students to study at their own pace rather than exhausting themselves with all-nighters a week before the big day.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">To access Shupavu291 past pacers reply with REVISE to 20851 or visit </span><a href="http://www.mwalimoo.com/m/start"><span style="font-weight: 400;">http://www.mwalimoo.com/m/start</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;"> for ShupavuWeb revision papers.</span></p>
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		<title>Using Shupavu291’s Ask A Teacher Platform While Learning at Home</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peter Baraka]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2020 07:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In April we partnered with Safaricom PLC to provide free revision materials for learners in primary and secondary on SMS and Web. This has seen a high increase in the ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2020/06/27/using-shupavu291s-ask-a-teacher-platform-while-learning-at-home/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In April we partnered with Safaricom PLC to provide free revision materials for learners in primary and secondary on SMS and Web. This has seen a high increase in the number of learners accessing content and also the number of lessons being consumed on the platform.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">During the free period we have been able to reach over one million learners across the country with an average of 300,000 active learners per day.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> One of the interesting things that we noticed was a huge spike in the number of questions that were being asked by learners on our interactive Ask a Teacher that enables students to ask questions and receive feedback from our teachers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our teachers were receiving an average of 3,000 questions a day in January and have been receiving an average of 20k questions a day since we launched the free service.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We spoke to some of the most active learners using  Ask a Teacher feature to find out why it is an important revision tool while they are at home.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lucy, a form 1 student from Gatero Day Secondary school, subscribed to Shupavu291 after schools were closed down in March. “There are topics that we had not been taught in school before we closed. Anytime I am reading a new topic and do not understand anything, I go  Ask a Teacher on Shupavu291 and the teachers help me.” said Lucy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“I like learning new vocabulary to develop good language skills. Since I do not have a dictionary, I love to use the Ask a teacher feature because I get very detailed explanations to the questions similar to that of the dictionary. Also I can be able to search a topic on Shupavu291 and get revision notes and questions which are helping keep up with my studies.” said Amos a form 3 student from Lodwar boys who has been using Shupavu291 since he was in class 8.</span></p>
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		<title>Kenyan teacher, Peter Tabichi wins 2019 Global Teacher Prize</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Juliet]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2019 10:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Peter Tabichi won this year&#8217;s Global Teacher prize at the Global Education Skills Forum. He is the first African teacher to win this prize. This award esteems the teaching profession, ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2019/03/31/kenyan-teacher-peter-tabichi-wins-2019-global-teacher-prize/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_10350" style="width: 430px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Peter-Tabichi-Global-Teacher-prize-1.jpg"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-10350" class="wp-image-10350 " src="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Peter-Tabichi-Global-Teacher-prize-1-300x225.jpg" alt="Peter Tabichi- Global Teacher prize 1" width="420" height="315" srcset="https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Peter-Tabichi-Global-Teacher-prize-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Peter-Tabichi-Global-Teacher-prize-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Peter-Tabichi-Global-Teacher-prize-1-100x75.jpg 100w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Peter-Tabichi-Global-Teacher-prize-1.jpg 800w" sizes="(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-10350" class="wp-caption-text">Peter Tabichi- Global Teacher prize</p></div>
<p>Peter Tabichi won this year&#8217;s Global Teacher prize at the Global Education Skills Forum. He is the first African teacher to win this prize. This award esteems the teaching profession, encourages best practices and affirms the nobility of the profession.</p>
<h4>Global Teacher Prize Background</h4>
<p>The Varkey Foundation is a  a family foundation established to <a href="https://enezaeducation.com/eneza-education-among-10-african-startups-pitching-at-gesf-dubai/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">improve standards of education</a> and raise the status and capacity of teachers throughout the world. It was founded by education entrepreneur, Sunny Varkey to ensure that every child gets a good education, by having a good teacher.</p>
<p>The US $1 million award presented annually to exceptional teachers who have made an outstanding contribution to their profession. The Global Teacher Prize has been running since 2015, focusing on <a href="https://www.varkeyfoundation.org/what-we-do/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">four principles</a>:  Innovation, Evidence, Influence and Action.</p>
<h4>Facts about Peter Tabichi:</h4>
<ol>
<li>Peter Tabichi is is the first African teacher, and the 5th winner of the Global Teacher Prize.</li>
<li>Peter teaches at <a href="https://www.globalteacherprize.org/winners/peter-tabichi/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Keriko Mixed</a> Day Secondary School in Pwani Village, situated in a remote, semi-arid part of Kenya’s Rift Valley.</li>
<li>He is a Physics and Math teacher,</li>
<li>He gives 80% of his teaching salary to local community projects, including education, sustainable agriculture and peace-building.</li>
<li>Peter Tabichi is a Franciscan Brother, he decided to dedicate his life to serving the community.</li>
<li>He comes from a family of teachers. His father was a teacher.</li>
<li>Peter uses ICT in 80% of his lessons to engage students, visiting internet cafes and caching online content to be used offline in class.</li>
<li>His students outperform other students from better equipped schools.</li>
<li>Of the 1 Million dollars he has won, he plans to set up a computer lab in his school.</li>
<li>He started a talent nurturing club and expanded the school’s Science Club, helping pupils design research projects of such quality that 60% now qualify for national competitions.</li>
<li>He was even recognized by our president, who <a href="https://citizentv.co.ke/news/uhuru-gives-ksh-20m-to-winning-teacher-tabichis-school-238337/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">committed to donate Ksh.20</a> million to Keriko Mixed Day Secondary School for the expansion of infrastructure and to encourage students to undertake science subjects.</li>
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<p>We commend his efforts of improving access to under-served children as this is at the core of our mission. Every child has a right to quality education despite their socioeconomic status.</p>
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		<title>Digital Tools to Simplify Every Teacher&#8217;s life</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Sep 2017 10:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">There is an absolute wealth of tools and resources for every classroom. As I mentioned in my earlier post, these tools make learning more interesting. They are numerous but I have numbered some below.</span></p>
<p>1. <a href="http://citeitin.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Cite It In &#8211; </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adding references, citations, comments or sources to your work for your students to refer to? Using Cite It In to ensure they are clear, professionally formatted and easy to read.</span></p>
<p>2. <a href="https://www.classmarker.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Class Marker</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; Tests are an inevitable part of today’s learning mainframe and cannot be avoided, but why not digitize your tests so students can fill them using a computer? Class Marker does just this, and instantly marks them for you, enabling you to save hundreds of hours a term where you would normally be marking!</span></p>
<p>3. <a href="http://topcanadianwriters.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Top Canadian Writers </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; If you’re looking for customizable content for your classes, whether it’s exams, source lists, info packs, flash cards or more, to save you the trouble of having to create them yourself, employ the professional assistance of writers found within this service.</span></p>
<p>4. <a href="http://easywordcount.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Easy Word Count </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; When you set a word limit of your student’s work, simply paste the work into EWC to ensure they have stuck to your desired limit, saving you a tonne of time when it comes to marking, allowing you to concentrate on the more important aspects.</span></p>
<p>5. <a href="http://people.uncw.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">People </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; A leading website hosted by the University of North Carolina which is a great example of how you and your class can set up a website, even for your school, enabling you to share content, resources and notes with both teachers and students alike.</span></p>
<p>6. <a href="http://www.what2learn.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">What2Learn </span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; Games are highly stimulating for children and students of all games so why not turn education or the more boring and tedious subjects into games? What2Learn is fantastic resources full of pre-made educational games on many subjects, and you have the ability to create your own!</span></p>
<p>7. <a href="http://bestaustralianwriters.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Best Australian Writers</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; If you’re in need of any kind of </span><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ursula-nwobu/write-my-essay-the-new-bu_1_b_11451790.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">essay help</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, whether it’s the creation of subject resources, fact sheets, cheat-sheets or flash cards, Best Australian Writers has a professional who can create them on your behalf, saving you so much time to concentrate on other things.</span></p>
<p>8. <a href="https://www.mindtools.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mind Tools</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&#8211; This skill-based website service provides you with an impressive collection of tests and learning packages, ideal for teaching your students unconventional skills including leadership skills, communication skills, stress and time management skills and even decision-making skills.</span></p>
<p>9. <a href="http://mwalimoo.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Mwalimoo</a>&#8211; Mwalimu is a Swahili word meaning teacher. There are lots of Math, English &amp; General Sciences for students from age 13-18 to learn from their devices on this platform. Teachers can take advantage of these resources and assign students quizzes in place of homework. There&#8217;s even a <a href="http://bit.ly/2mbGDEl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lighter mobile version</a> which students can access on their mobile phones.</p>
<p><strong>About the author</strong></p>
<p>Jennifer Scott is a business developer working in different areas of education, technology, security and various types of online marketing. Prior to business developing, Jennifer was consultant at Deloitte, and managed security services provider and developer of a wide range of security solutions.</p>
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		<title>Is your love for the screen an addiction?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jun 2017 20:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[By Joel Stephens. You don’t have to look around for too long to notice plenty of people who seem oblivious to their surroundings and have their eyes firmly focused on the ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2017/06/29/is-your-love-for-the-screen-an-addiction/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By Joel Stephens.</p>
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<p dir="ltr">You don’t have to look around for too long to notice plenty of people who seem oblivious to their surroundings and have their eyes firmly focused on the screen in front of them, but there comes a point when the need to check your Facebook status or keep surfing the internet becomes more than a passing interest in what is going on in the world and what your friends are doing.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Any addiction is a serious problem and often needs some form of intervention to break the cycle and put your life back on a normal track and there is a growing awareness that so-called internet addiction is a modern phenomenon that is just as damaging and debilitating as any other addictions.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>A genuine problem</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Considering technology and the internet are now a fundamental part of how we live our modern lives and communicate with each other it can be understandably easy to suggest that internet addiction is not a real affliction but just something we all use in our daily lives.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Although it is not exactly a precise science by any means, a study published on Motherboard suggests that an estimated 6% of the world’s population is addicted to the internet. If that is anywhere near accurate, that equates to some 420 million people who are considered to have a damaging behavioral problem with their internet habits.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.comparitech.com/internet-providers/technology-internet-addiction/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=https://www.comparitech.com/internet-providers/technology-internet-addiction/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1498854853100000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFrM6Q-t3ubEEquQHgWeEcNbukG_w">Technology and internet addiction</a> is a real and genuine problem and these sorts of numbers strongly suggest that it needs to be recognized as such so that something can be done to address this growing issue.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Different name but same symptoms</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">A good starting point when talking about internet and technology addictions is to point out that there are striking similarities with the symptoms displayed by people suffering from any other sort of completely unrelated addiction.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Issues with substance abuse and alcohol, for example, have been widely documented and there are plenty of studies and support networks established to try and help people face their addiction problems in these specific areas, but internet addiction is still something we are coming to terms with, which makes it challenging for someone who may have been affected.</p>
<p dir="ltr">China is an interesting and perhaps surprising leader in this arena but they were amongst the first countries to officially recognize internet addiction as a clinical disorder.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Chinese government has even taken the drastic step of establishing a series of boot camps across the country where teens are sent in order to break their internet addictions. That is unlikely to be the approach taken in most other countries but it does offer a clear indication that the symptoms are significantly similar to other addiction problems and therefore, need to be treated with the same degree of seriousness.</p>
<p dir="ltr"><strong>Spotting the warning signs</strong></p>
<p dir="ltr">Internet addiction is widely described as an impulse control disorder, but the fundamental difference is that it does not involve the use of drugs or alcohol, although the symptoms of internet addiction come alarmingly close to the traits displayed by someone with a severe gambling problem.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It has been found that some people with an internet addiction will develop an emotional attachment to the online world they have created through various activities such as using chat rooms to communicate with others.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Nothing wrong with socializing with others online of course, but it is when you can’t stop checking their status and find yourself unable to walk away and do something else that there is a potential addiction problem.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Other people with a potential addiction problem might spend countless hours researching topics of interest or just finding activities that they find hard to break away from once they start.</p>
<p dir="ltr">An unhealthy preoccupation with the internet is a clear warning sign, as is when you find yourself increasing your internet time in order to try and achieve a certain level of satisfaction, spending longer online than you originally intended to spend.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you find yourself becoming restless or irritable when you can’t spend time on the internet and you are shutting out personal and family relationships in favor of internet use, these are all clear signs of an addiction problem.</p>
<p dir="ltr">An internet addiction can also cause a number of medical problems too, such as dry eyes, severe headaches, and even Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Staring at a screen is something that many of us do for hours each day as part of our daily personal life and work routine, but being able to take a break and do something else is something we should all be capable of doing.</p>
<p dir="ltr">It’s when you can’t do that willingly that might be an addiction problem.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Attribution:<a href="https://www.comparitech.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> <strong>Comparitec<wbr />h</strong></a></p>
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		<title>Safaricom’s Spark Fund Invests in M-Learning Startup</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2016 11:37:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Press Release:   Nairobi, Kenya – October 5th, 2016… Safaricom (NSE: SCOM) has today announced an investment in Eneza Education through its $1 million Safaricom Spark Venture Fund. Eneza Education ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2016/10/05/safaricoms-spark-fund-invests-in-m-learning-startup/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Press Release:</p>
<p><strong> <a href="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Shupavu291-launch.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-7727 aligncenter" src="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Shupavu291-launch-300x168.jpg" alt="shupavu291-launch" width="530" height="297" srcset="https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Shupavu291-launch-300x168.jpg 300w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Shupavu291-launch-768x431.jpg 768w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Shupavu291-launch.jpg 960w" sizes="(max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px" /></a></strong></p>
<p><strong>Nairobi, Kenya – <span data-term="goog_186503742">October 5th, 2016</span>…</strong> <a href="http://www.safaricom.co.ke/about-us/media-center/press-releases/release/297" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Safaricom</a> (NSE: <a href="http://www.safaricom.co.ke/investor-relation" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en&amp;q=http://www.safaricom.co.ke/investor-relation&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1475737385511000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGy_vY5K2Yp4Z_VSI9tee-EQiAcbQ">SCOM</a>) has today announced an investment in Eneza Education through its $1 million Safaricom Spark Venture Fund. Eneza Education provides mobile-based education tools for primary students.</p>
<p>The company was co-founded four years ago by Kago Kagichiri and Toni Maraviglia, who believed in the opportunity that Kenya’s expanding mobile ecosystem could provide for children who needed reliable exam revision tools.</p>
<p>Today, Eneza has more than 1.1 million learners across 11 countries, including Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ghana, Zambia, South Africa, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria, Benin and Iraq.</p>
<p>In a first partnership with Safaricom four years ago, Eneza developed the Shupavu 291 app, which is an affordable, SMS based exam revision and learning solution.</p>
<p>“We believe in the power of the mobile phone in extending access to learners so they can realize their full potential. The additional investment will go a long way in enabling us reach more learners in countries where we already operate in, and in expanding to more countries,” said Kago Kagichiri, CEO, Eneza Education.</p>
<p>As one of its most popular solutions, the Shupavu platform offers a personalized experience by providing real-time course level progress, interactive lessons and assessments, all via the simplest of mobile phones.</p>
<p>Users can access locally-designed tutorials, as well as chat live with a teacher either through a live teacher chat through either USSD or SMS, an online web app, an offline desktop app, or an Android app.</p>
<p>Eneza has also created interactive content to cover the local curriculum in several countries. In Kenya, learners have access to all subjects from Class 4 to Form 4 in the 8-4-4 curriculum, with courses designed to also cater for learners who have dropped out of school but would like to keep learning.</p>
<p>“We believe that the mobile phone has the power to exponentially increase access to critical services such as education. Our partnership with Eneza has already seen us transform the lives of several children in Kenya; the funding we are unveiling today through the Spark Fund will provide them with the money they need to reach more children across the world,” said Bob Collymore, CEO, Safaricom.</p>
<p>Over the last four years, 90 million messages have been sent on the Shupavu 291 platform, with more than 14 million questions completed by learners.</p>
<p>The Safaricom Spark Venture Fund invests in startups by purchasing minority equity stake or providing convertible debt, allowing young businesses to access the finances coupled with the technical advisory and business development services needed to grow their businesses. The fund’s first investment was in Sendy, a fast growing provider of on-demand, door to door delivery and transportation services.</p>
<p>Recently, the Fund announced its second investment in mSurvey, a mobile-first research platform leveraging SMS and mobile messaging technology to simplify access to credible, on-demand data from the emerging world.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>…Ends…</strong></p>
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		<title>Teaching good handwriting skills in the digital age</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Aug 2016 11:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Technology is bound to continue developing. Nowadays, everything has been digitized including learning. Kenya has not been left out of the technology revolution. What with the introduction of the Digital ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2016/08/20/teaching-good-handwriting-skills-in-the-digital-age/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_7474" style="width: 630px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a href="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/5184.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-7474" class="wp-image-7474 size-full" src="https://enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/5184.jpg" alt="Image courtesy" width="620" height="372" srcset="https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/5184.jpg 620w, https://www.enezaeducation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/5184-300x180.jpg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px" /></a><p id="caption-attachment-7474" class="wp-caption-text">Image courtesy</p></div>
<p>Technology is bound to continue developing. Nowadays, everything has been digitized including learning. Kenya has not been left out of the technology revolution. What with the introduction of the Digital Literacy program to schools.</p>
<p>This fact prompts many fears, one of them being the extinction of good handwriting. We were having a conversation with friends who happen to be lecturers, about students’ poor handwriting. Some students write in a way that makes it impossible to read what they have put on paper, making it impossible to grade them. Some fail their exams, not because they did not know the answers, but due to their poor writing.</p>
<p>Here are a few tips to teachers when it comes to teaching good hand writing skills to their students.</p>
<p><strong>Timeliness</strong>&#8211; The earlier good writing habits are instilled the better. Children should be taught how to write right from an early age. This is kindergarten. If you don’t insist on clear writing at this stage, then it would be an uphill task developing the habit at a later stage.</p>
<p><strong>Tight grip</strong>&#8211; The best way to hold a pen or pencil is to let it rest next to the base of your thumb. Hold it in place with your thumb, and your index and middle fingers. Some people have bad writing because they do not hold their pens correctly.</p>
<p><strong>Try fun writing games</strong>&#8211; Writing can be fun, for example, your class can have role plays as actors giving their autographs or doctors writing prescriptions. You can get as creative as possible with your class depending on their age. This way, you will develop a habit of good writing.</p>
<p><strong>Tracing Tokens</strong>&#8211; You may even introduce a reward system for the best or the most improved writing. This will motivate your students to be better writers. The reward system may be as simple as pinning the best written essay on the board for everyone to read. It might even be in form of a pen as a souvenir.</p>
<p><strong>Take time off tech</strong>&#8211; Technology is great, but every student must get back to the basics. In this age of texts and Facebook, maybe a little letter writing for fun can remind students of their good writing skills.</p>
<p>All these are good ideas that need the dedication of a teacher or parent. There are other ideas out there. Feel free to share them in the comments section.</p>
<p><strong>About the writer</strong></p>
<p><em>Juliet Otieno is the Brand and Social Media Associate at Eneza Education. She is trained in journalism and Public Relations and is a <a href="http://mwanadada.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blogger</a> who likes to play with words. </em></p>
<p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/2016/mar/07/how-to-teach-handwriting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Image credits</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 14:36:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[MPrep is a product tailored to enhance performance of Primary school kids in Kenya. Its platform is integrated with Short Message Service through the short code 8512 and eases revision ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2013/04/26/the-benefits-of-mprep-to-schools-kids-and-parents/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://twitter.com/MPrepKenya">MPrep</a> is a product tailored to enhance performance of Primary school kids in Kenya. Its platform is integrated with Short Message Service through the short code 8512 and eases revision for examinations. Every parent and teacher always longs for a bright future for his or her children, because the foundation laid in basic education determines the success of an individual in future endeavors.  MPrep is a comprehensive tool that provides an ultimate solution for preparation for examinations. This product is currently at a stage of take-off with a staggering ten thousand plus users.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://mprep.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/smiles-slider1.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class=" wp-image-755 alignleft" alt="smiles-slider" src="http://mprep.it/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/smiles-slider1.jpg" width="346" height="194" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://mprep.it/sign-up/">Schools</a> get access to concrete data on performance by students through MPrep. They receive performance information in form of rankings and subject scores. The ranking organizes data in graphical representations to ensure that enrolled schools compete healthily.  This helps in achieving milestones on academic performance set by schools. Teachers are able to identify areas on which kids are weak and improve on them through individualized attention. In order to access the analytical data, schools need to open an account with MPrep. The account is cheap to open and runs on web, mobile web and SMS platforms.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Parents are keen on academic trends by their children’s educational path. MPrep offers an opportunity for parents to monitor growth in the classroom by identifying strengths and weaknesses.  They get performances per subject as well as collective and average performance of kids.  All this is at an affordable rate for a term of study and stress free weekly updates pushed to the parent’s mobile phone.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">MPrep for kids is a one-stop shop when it comes to revision. The content takes into account all the subjects as per the Kenyan curriculum and gets regular updates by the <a href="http://mprep.it/about-us/our-team/">MPrep team</a> and related tutorials.  Students benefit by receiving rankings and variety of quizzes that widen the scope of their revision. At the same time, the tool works for any kind of mobile phone, whether it a smart phone, java phone or the simple feature phone.</p>
<p>The procedure to register for MPrep is a follows: First, text the word <b>START</b> to the Safaricom short code <b>8512</b>. Then:</p>
<p>v  Register the Names, Gender, Region, and School</p>
<p>v  Activate the first quiz through the codes given by teachers or suggested by MPrep</p>
<p>v  The first question is sent to the mobile phone</p>
<p>v  Respond with the one correct choice answer</p>
<p>v  Receive a tailored response for the answer chosen</p>
<p>v  Complete all the questions in the quiz(usually five)</p>
<p>v  Receive your overall quiz score, ranking in school and ranking in region</p>
<p>v  Receive suggestions for new quizzes</p>
<p>v  Proceed to another quiz by responding with other quiz codes suggested by MPrep</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Indeed, MPrep works to transform education and sets a stage for affordable m-learning solutions in Africa.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2013 13:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Gone are the days when IBM computers cost $ 500,000, gone are the pencil days and the times when computers solely worked as flight simulators for use by MIT pilots. ... <a href="https://www.enezaeducation.com/2013/04/19/why-education-technology-is-inevitable/" class="more-link">Read More</a>]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gone are the days when IBM computers cost $ 500,000, gone are the pencil days and the times when computers solely worked as flight simulators for use by MIT pilots. The tech-world is fast evolving with innovations hitting the markets day in day out. Learning technological tools continue to dominate the education arena in the universe as developers spend sleepless nights working on the most efficient and result oriented platforms. Education applications and software is the current order of society. The use of more robust tools like smart phones and iPads is taking the world by storm.</p>
<p><a href="http://mprep.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Peter-Sereti.jpg"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="wp-image-1206 alignleft" title="Peter Sereti of MPrep" alt="" src="http://mprep.it/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Peter-Sereti.jpg" width="294" height="220" /></a>Online learning is increasingly becoming an appealing way of studying. Online bookstores, libraries and the web are currently the dominant sources of information. Education enthusiasts have a smoother time in accessing reading materials as opposed to perusing through bulky novels, literature, religious or educational books. Google books and Amazon now command the largest market share in trading on online books. This shows that the digital revolution is on its take off. I foresee a world without physical books in a near future as soon as 20 years from now. Every person should strive towards such a lovely world without destruction of forests, as this would save the environment a great deal.</p>
<p>Technology is a tireless teacher in that students can access it at any time thus making it reliable and convenient. Individualized feedback to students is the key for any successful technology. This feedback gives automatic corrections to pupils hence saving on time. At the same time, every learner gets the necessary attention that a classroom teacher would have otherwise taken 10 times more to attend to each learner. An example is MPrep’s revision platform whereby students get individualized feedback for quizzes. Students can therefore know the correct answers without consulting anybody. Furthermore, <a href="http://t.co/6Op4Erjd2v">MPrep’s platform</a> has thousands of quizzes tailor made for the Kenyan curriculum. The revision tool also helps in providing accurate analytics, it grades students automatically hence helping them improve on performance.</p>
<p>Technology encourages an active rather than a passive participation of students. It promotes good health, for example, use of white boards eliminates the use of chalk, which is a major cause of respiratory diseases. Through DVDs, online mode and through other multimedia tools, creation of lesson plans and saving of notes becomes a simple task.  To add to that, distance learning is encouraged hence improving productivity while lowering the cost of education.</p>
<p>Take this to the bank, “Truth be told, our daily lives cannot go on without technology in the current age.” The world now lives, eats and drinks Technology.</p>
<p>By <a href="https://twitter.com/TimothyKeter">Timothy Keter</a></p>
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