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“ M a t s i k o ” : R w a n d a n c h i l d r e n d o i n g c u r i o s i t i e s i n v e s t i g a t i o n
w i t h t h e i r l a p t o p sSilvia Kist
Juliano Bittencourt David Cavallo
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Rwanda• Highest demographic density in
Africa and no natural resources in quantity to boost the economy
• Vision 2020 - Services in tourism and ICT as engine for economic growth
• Educational system based on rote learning - teachers believe in what they do
• Children still believe in school as a way to get a better life
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OLPC project in
• Initiative from the Government as strategy to promote change in the educational system
• Aligned with Vision 2020
• Lots of excitement, but how to grow with quality?
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OLPC strategy in
• Cavallo’s Models of Growth - MoG: changing the learning culture inside and outside classrooms
• Focus on developing people
• Working in Micro/Macro strategies
• Instantiating exemplars of laptops and learning
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Matsiko• Matsiko = Curiosity
• Investigation of Children’s Curiosities
• One of micro level activities ran at schools in Rwanda
• Implemented 5 times with different groups of children
• Roots in the Learning Project methodology of Prof. Léa Fagundes(Brazil)
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Matsiko
• Principles • Kick-off activity
• Each student must make questions on their own
• Students must choose questions to investigate
• The teacher is the guide
• Investigation Process: more than finding the right answer on the Internet
• Build models
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Matsiko in Rwanda• “If Egypt is up and the heaven is up too, is
heaven in Egypt?” (Kagugu school, G3),
• “Where does the human come from?” (Nonko school, G1)
• “People use to say that the earth turns around the sun, why don’t we feel it?” (Nonko school, G2)
• “Where does the sun go when it is night?” (Kagugu school, G1),
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Children doing an experiment about perspective where the laptop records the globes movement.
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Solar system simulation done in Etoys(left) and Rose explaining her work (right)
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Final Considerations• Proposals like Matsiko aren’t meant for larger adoption as a
curriculum. They are interventions in the school system
• Matsiko achieved success in changing the mindset of many politicians and managers inside the government, making the discussion to shift from an “ICT project” to an “Education project”
• It served as a laboratory for the development of people in new ways of thinking about teaching and learning
• It influenced and gathered support from school managers
• It provided a powerful learning experience to many children
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More informations• E-mail:
• Blogs:
• http://www.gc4ll.org
• http://silviakist.blogspot.com