This project brings digital storytelling in the classroom to 1000 junior high school students in Ghana, selected among 100 schools. A pilot project to measure the changing focus from teacher led instructional to Student Centered Learning Classrooms. Digital storytelling intersects 4 Student Learning Strategies: Project Based Learning, Student Engagement, Technology Integration and Reflection for Deep Learning. Project just began with funds to cover 100 students from Vodafone Foundation.
90% of the1,500,000 Junior High School Students in Ghana are mostly faced with the under-utilization of acquired 'ICT' skills due to its incompatibility with the teacher led instructional classroom model. This project, though it will reach only 1000 students would pilot government, private enterprise and the international donor machinery to engage in the process of closing up the digital divide through student centered digital education in regions such as Ghana with the advanced world.
This student centered learning project will equip a 1000 students with critical and creative thinking, collaboration and communication learning skills; information, media and technology literacy skills; flexibility, initiative, social, productivity and leadership life skills needed for the growing information based community trend and its emerging digital economy in Ghana.
The 1000 Junior high school students trained in this pilot project will remain models for the educational sector of Ghana. This student centered learning pilot project can become the blueprint for a standard based approach; where Junior High Schools in Ghana especially, can adopt this model through the educational curriculum; thereby graduating the best candidates who will be provided with the requisite skills to participate in a 21st century global community.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
