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Inter High Schools ICT Competetion

Submitted by Lee Muzala on Saturday, 16th October, 2010 — Blog entry

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Zambia's education system is largely based around the British education system. The Zambian education system to date still lacks the integration of ICTs in its curriculum. This is also compounded by the non-integration of ICT at teacher training level. We have a few isolated projects that are promoting the use of ICT in education, but these initiatives have not been taken up fully by the government.

With the objective of promoting the use of ICT as an education tool, e-Brain Forum of Zambia Southern Chapter in partnership with Zain Zambia, is organizing an Inter High School ICT competition for schools in Livingstone.  Six schools have been selected to participate in the competition.  Each school is sending five students to represent them. Total number of students to take part is 30. The following schools are participating in the Inter - High Schools ICT competition.

1. Hillcrest High School
2. St Marys High School
3. St Raphael’s High School
4. Linda High School
5. David Kaunda High School
6. Makuni Basic School

Date: 25th October 2010

Venue: Livingstone Museum

Location

Livingstone, Zambia

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Great move

Comment Author

Abdul - Rashid Imoro

Wednesday, 30th March, 2011

 Hi Lee,

That is a very great effort there. I am directly in charge of ICT education in Savana Signatures in Ghana. We have Ict Clubs in some basic and second cycle institutions in the Northern part of Ghana and  the organisation have had this idea to organise ICT quiz and debates among the school  ICT clubs. To see you already doing in your country is a very great move.

But please could you share some of your experience with me on how you organised it. I would also  be very grateful if you could tell me how you got funding for the project and as well recommend some international organisation where you think our organisation could approach for support to also organise  ICT quiz for our school clubs in Ghana and northern region to be precise. Keep the good work and hope to hear from you.

Outcome of quiz

Comment Author

Agbenyo John Stephen

Wednesday, 8th December, 2010

Hello Lee, 
I agree with Gonzalo. We are anxiously waiting to hear of the lessons of the competition.

Cheers!

ICT Quiz for Schools

Comment Author

Lee Muzala

Sunday, 12th December, 2010

Dear Colleagues,

Sorry about the silence - end of year activities become so overwhelming. I have been on the road trying to wrap up some projects and business.

The Quiz was organised by the eBrain Forum Livingstone Chapter, and Zain Zambia (now Airtel) sponsored the event by providing t-shirts, wall clocks, pens, key-holders, caps and several other materials. eBrain Forum, courtesy of IICD Knowledge Sharing Officer (Martine Koopman) provided flash disks as part of the prizes.

Comments gathered after the event were on the lines of making the event an annual one, and Zain/Airtel agreed to continue supporting. We are currently trying to see how best other provinces can host similar events.

Thanks.

Lee

Inter Schools ICt quiz competition

Comment Author

Gonzalo Portal

Tuesday, 7th December, 2010

I know how busy you are, Lee.
All the same, any follow up on the interschools quiz competition. As Stephen mentioned there is interest from organizations and schools to organize similar events ... in our case, here in the Copperbelt of Zambia.
Other members of this group might want to share their experiences in other parts of Africa (the world) ... and that would be great.
Best to all

Inter Schools ICt quiz competition

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Agbenyo John Stephen

Friday, 22nd October, 2010

 Thanks Lee for this publication. This has been an interest area particularly for me and my organisation, Savana Signatures. Currently, my organisation is seeking for funding to hold one in the three Northern regions. This we will be organising in partnership with Community Information Centres. Since we still do not have the funding yet, could you please share with us how you got Zain to partly fund this.

Also, could you please share with me the quiz questions after the 25th of October when it is over.

Cheers!

Quiz Questions

Comment Author

Lee Muzala

Sunday, 12th December, 2010

I will ask our Chapter reps to send me the set of questions, and I will forward that to you.
To give you an idea, the schools involved do not have any ICT subjects and so the knowledge was mainly based on their day to day experiences. The questions were elementary, basic and some a bit technical.

Report

Comment Author

Lee Muzala

Friday, 29th October, 2010

Thanks Stephen for the comments. I will do a follow up on the entry, to give you insight on how the contest was conducted and how partnership was arrived at with Zain.

Watch this space!