Monday, August 26, 2013

Activity Update


The students have already gone back to school but we have gotten interest from some of their parents and the same students to come and use the room a couple days a week. To address this we have decided to open the study room two days a week in the morning and one day in the afternoon. For sure one of the morning days will be Saturday morning. We have one of the tutors that helped us during the program who also works for the company, so he will be in charge of over site during these days and especially Saturday. We are also talking to some schools that have honors programs for those students to come and learn to be instructors for this kind of thing and get community service hours in this way.

We have also mentioned the pilot program to several different people. There are different groups which are now excited and have expressed interest in what we have done. As we have limited facilities we can not accommodate all these people and the possible students this means. So what we have decided is to set up a seminar that two of the instructors, Eduardo and Jose, can give to different schools, teachers,parent groups and people who are interested. These seminars will let interested people learn about the Khan academy and how we went about doing the pilot program, this way they can learn from our mistakes and build on what we saw as the successful parts of our program. Our first seminar will be given to a small school that has started in the city of Samaipata. Thanks to them the seminar idea was started because the schools founder were the ones to ask us about this. We have made an outline of the seminar and are preparing to go to Samaipata in the next 2-3 weeks. This will be an interesting learning experience for us and enable us to see the viability of using the Khan academy in a school setting. This school is a great place to start because it is a small school with small class sizes. Since there are no more than 100 kids,  it will be interesting to see how this works out.

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