The Right to Digital Literacy
Improving the learning outcomes of disadvantaged communities through technology and a circular economy approach.
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Improving the learning outcomes of disadvantaged communities through technology and a circular economy approach.
Providing educational opportunities to refugee children through electronic devices that are loaded with engaging content.
Empowering refugee and at-risk children to learn and thrive through self-paced, motivational electronic tools through donated computers.
Hello Sarah Nathan! Thank you for your lovely comments and question.
While our Thaki platform brings a rich offering of learning content to the communities that we serve, we also place emphasis on integrating the software tools that are loaded on the laptops. These include the LibreOffice suite which is equivalent to and fully compatible with the Microsoft suite, as well as a multitude of other advanced software programs including Gimp (a graphic editing tool similar to Photoshop), Blender (a 3D creation suite), LibreCAD (a computer aided design program), FreeCAD (a parametric 3D modeler) - among others.
We believe that it is important for resilient personal and professional development to learn how to use these tools and be flexible enough to navigate between different platforms (e.g. between Microsoft, the Google suite and the LibreOffice suite). We are striving to teach children and teachers alike HOW to learn and not just WHAT to learn. To that end, we are in the process of deepening our learner journeys and training toolkit, taking our current resource guide (http://thaki.org/resource-guide/) to the next big level - with the beta site to be launched this summer.
During this COVID lockdown period, we have been meeting regularly with our recipient partners and brainstorming how to continue the learning process under severe restrictions where the children only have limited access to a shared phone with a limited WhatsApp data plan. Among other things we launched a WhatsApp campaign to share resources, tools and tricks with the community and a "10 days of Tech Tricks" social media campaign to bring helpful insights to our partners. This is an iterative and ongoing learning process for all of us.
Thank you for your comment, Mia. Much appreciated!
I am familiar with Rumie and will contact them regarding this issue. Thank you for the suggestion!
Kind regards,
Rudayna
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