Wikipedia Primary School: Providing on Wikipedia the information necessary to complete the cycle of primary education in the languages used by the different education systems Iolanda Pensa - Isla Haddow-Flood, - Luca Martinelli, Hong Kong 09/08/2013 Children at school in the Eastern Cape, 2013. photo: Sydelle Willow Smith courtesy of Equal Education
Wikipedia primary school, presentation at Wikimania Hong Kong, 10/08/2013. Iolanda Pensa, Luca Martinelli, Isla Haddow-Flood.
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Wikipedia Primary School: Providing on Wikipedia the
information necessary to complete the cycle of primary education in
the languages used by the different education systems Iolanda Pensa
- Isla Haddow-Flood, - Luca Martinelli, Hong Kong 09/08/2013
Children at school in the Eastern Cape, 2013. photo: Sydelle Willow
Smith courtesy of Equal Education
Children at school in the Eastern Cape, 2013. photo: Sydelle
Willow Smith courtesy of Equal Education Why?
Framasoft et Wikimedia France proposent en 2012 une cl USB
contenant l'encyclopdie libre Wikipdia accompagne de plusieurs
dizaines de logiciels libres.
Tsesler &Voichenko,Welcome, Minsk, Road sign.
Chacho Pueble, his great-aunt and photos by his sister Lula,
http://www.behance.net/gallery/Grandmother-Tips/2392946.
Why 1.Wikipedia is an educational tool 2.Available (mobile,
ofine...) 3. Making sure we are providing (good) content related to
education 4. Improving underrepresented content 5. Supporting the
Wikimedia projects and their (potential) communities in different
languages and in different places 6.Thinking about who we are
educating and what we are teaching
Children at school in the Eastern Cape, 2013. photo: Sydelle
Willow Smith courtesy of Equal Education How?
Wikipedia Primary School Providing on Wikipedia the information
necessary to complete the cycle of primary education in the
languages used by the different education systems
WikiAfrica Primary School Feasibility Study - Wikipedia
(languages used in Africa), Primary school system in South Africa,
Cameroon and Italy, 2012.
What we did 1. Languages used in primary education in Africa
2.Those languages on Wikipedia (status) 3. Case study about primary
education in Italy 4. Case study about primary education in South
Africa 5. Case study about primary education in Cameroon 6.What is
going on in the eld (projects, wikiprojects, OER...) 7. Content we
could target (possible list of articles)
Children at school in the Eastern Cape, 2013. photo: Sydelle
Willow Smith courtesy of Equa
//the statistics Total population of South Africa (2011):
51,770,560 # children under 19 in South Africa (2011): 19,103,566
37% of the population Total number of children aged 5-14 (2011):
9,414,637 or 18% of the population Almost one in three or 29.6% is
aged between 0-14 years. South Africa Public Primary Schools:
14,456 Primary Schools 5,992,863 Learners 187,520 Teachers Mobile
penetration in South Africa (by unique subscribers) stood at
63.68%. Unique subscribers in 2012: 32,386,986. The current
contract vs prepaid split on connections is 19% contract vs. 81%
prepaid. 8 million South Africans access the internet on their
mobiles. 2.48 million do not have access to computers, 5.42 million
or 90% South Africas internet users use their cellphones to go
online.
Zambian high schoolers and their mobile phones, by mLearning
Africa CC-BY -SA
//challenges Low levels of literacy and numeracy Focus on
Matric (Final) exams negate concentration on building blocks of
education Chaotic and expensive unsuccessful national dedication to
outcomes-based education Lack of trained teachers (in 2010 the
pupil/teacher ratio was 43:1) Over-crowded classrooms Educators do
not work regular hours Poor teacher attendance and time inefciency.
School infrastructure challenges include: shortage of books and
teaching materials Shortage of support and administrative staff Not
all schools have access to running water, electricity or toilets
Insufcient access for pupils to nutrition and sexual assault and
violence in school is on rise; A signicant number of children are
in grades that do not reect their age; Students are often not able
to complete homework due to household chores being seen as higher
priority The impact of HIV is signicant and debilitating.
Infrastructure - computers used as admin tools rather than teaching
devices - School access to internet intermittent or non-existent -
Security and out of school access to technology Teacher knowledge,
resources and time constraints It is reasonable to presume that
those problems might be consistent in other African counties
Children at school in the Eastern Cape, 2013. photo: Sydelle
Willow Smith courtesy of Equal Education
//OER in South Africa Siyavula In 2012 Siyavula, a Cape
Town-based Open Access publisher, began supplying the Department of
Basic Education with Grade 10, 11 and 12 Maths and Science
textbooks for R40 each. Nalibali Nalibali is isiXhosa for heres the
story, they are a national reading- for-enjoyment campaign to
designed to spark childrens potential through storytelling and
reading OER4Schools CCE-funded OER4Schools project started in
August 2009 with a pilot phase, that was completed in May 2010.They
assessed the feasibility of providing Open Educational Resources
(OER) to ICT- and Internet- equipped primary schools in Zambia, and
of supporting interactive forms of subject pedagogy with the new
resources. OER Africa OER Africa is an innovative initiative
established by the South African Institute for Distance Education
(Saide) to play a leading role in driving the development and use
of Open Educational Resources (OER) across all education sectors on
the African continent.
Children at school in the Eastern Cape, 2013. photo: Sydelle
Willow Smith courtesy of Equal Education
1. Scientic committee (list of articles and monitoring). 2.
Dataset about public administrations 3. OER Open Educational
Resources in cc by or cc by-sa 4. New institutions contributing to
OER. 5. Wikipedia Scientic Journal, aggregator of scientic
peer-reviewed journals. 6. Synergy with
Wikipedia/Wikimedia/OER/Education clusters (i.e.Wikikids, Wikipedia
in different languages, existing education projects, local
schools...) 7. Data analysis-research (monitoring, evaluating).
What we can do
What we are not going to do 1.We do not break Wikipedia rules.
2.We do not work for governments and ministries of education. 3.We
do not consider Wikipedia a schoolbook. 4.We do not promote
Wikipedia as a stable and passive resource. 5.We do not centralize
all the activities, and in any case we cant.
We want to make Wikipedia a better education resource.
Wikipedia Primary School: Providing on Wikipedia the
information necessary to complete the cycle of primary education in
the languages used by the different education systems Iolanda Pensa
- Luca Martinelli - Isla Haddow-Flood
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Primary_School cc by-sa
all, Hong Kong 09/08/2013 Mobile A2K, photo Zetalab for lettera27,
Dakar, 2010, cc by-sa.