Denis is our school lead educator in Mogotio Primary School.

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This week in Mogotio Primary was a very busy week. We have so many students in our school, that I cannot cover our whole curriculum in a regular class schedule. So, between scheduled classes (during lunch, recess and after school) I pull groups into the computer room who may have missed our latest specialty.This week, I was finally able to associate and socialize with grade 6, 7 and 8. I learned that they were not aware of all our curriculum changes, since they hadn't been to computer lessons in so long. The last TechLit classes they took were from our old curriculum, which was mostly about touch-typing and playing games. Now they are learning many other exciting programs, like Inkscape, LMMS and OpenShot.A 6th grade student named Kevin gave me confidence that his class finally appreciates how much they can learn with computers. Kevin wrote a story about TechLit during his introduction to word processing. He explained in a short sentence "TechLit is a good company, because they help us learn how to use computers." (He underlined the word TechLit). Kevin thanked Nelly for bringing computers to their school and for having the heart of sharing.

Upper Grades Restart in Mogotio Primary - Primary School Lead Educator Denis Marega Teaches Grade 6, Grade 7, and Grade 8 New Digital Skills

I was finally able to teach the upper classes in Mogotio Primary this week. They were very appreciative after learning about all our curriculum changes, and learning about all the new programs they can use in classes.

Upper Grades Restart in Mogotio Primary

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Every Thursday, we all gather around on Zoom to share stories from the classroom. Every educator writes a story to share from their week about student achievement.

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Irene Pepit is our school lead educator for Zawadi Yetu in Mogotio, Kenya.

Today, my story comes from a grade 5 boy called Bowen. Since word processing was introduced, he has been really into it. Bowen likes documents more than other specialties.He has been practicing bolding and editing words since the first day. At first,it was a bit challenging for him. He was really figuring out how at the end he can have his own written document.So now, during breaks and lunch hours, he comes to the lab to work on a new project: a notice to other students about the environment. Bowen asks for my help every time. His aim was to make sure that he wrote the notice on the computer.His classmates weren’t sure what to use word documents for. Some were just writing their names and others were typing the names of their friends and school. Bowen was the first student to think of how to use word documents.During his 35 minute class on Wednesday he finished his notice. The rest of the class were asking him where he got the idea. He told them that some might write compositions and others might write recipes. They were happy because now they had ideas about how to use word documents.I am confident that we have a typist, script writer, speech writer in the making.

Zawadi Students Learn Documents - Primary School Lead Educator Irene Pepit Inspires Students to Create Their Own Documents

This week, a student of mine wrote a notice for his school about Environment Celebration Day. He was so inspired that he came to the computer lab between classes to practice.

Zawadi Students Learn Documents

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Lucy is our internet skills and touchtyping specialist.

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Word document specialty focuses on introducing students to common text formatting options available in word processing apps.Joy, a fourth grader in Mogotio primary came in with her project written on a piece of paper. The project was a designed birthday invitation card which she had drawn during their previous class.After introducing word documents, she went ahead to do her project. She typed the invitation letter and wrote the subject in bold. Then she used a watermark: ‘birthday.’ She then decorated it and saved her work.Everyone in the class was amazed and they were going to joy to consult.she took over the class to teach word document.

First Digital Letter in Mogotio Primary | TechLit Africa

A fourth grader in Mogotio Primary wrote her first digital letter this week.

First Digital Letter in Mogotio Primary

Today, Dreams Hill teacher came to the lab and asked us to teach his students how to type a paragraph on the computer and save.I showed them using the office application (writer libreoffice document).Joy, a fifth grader, was able to type the paragraph and edit it on her own.She coloured the words with different colours ,bolded some words,italicised&nbsp;and saved.She ended up being a student teacher&nbsp;since everyone was calling her for help.

Word Processing at Dreams Hills | TechLit Africa

Students at Dreams Hills primary learned how to use word processing apps today. A fifth grader stood out and helped the rest of her class.

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Word Processing at Dreams Hills

<h2>Well-Rounded Students</h2>This is a story about the fifth graders at Zawadi Yetu Academy. They have enjoyed every single one of the specialties that have been introduced to them, from Coding, Music Production to Personal Branding and Graphic Design.They can do all the specialties without the help of their specialist and have shown great passion for learning TechLit programs. They keep asking me what is next. “What are we learning next?” they would say, almost in unison<h2>Self-Teaching with Computers</h2>So today I felt challenged and decided to introduce Word Processing and Document Editing to them. They were really happy to see a new skill they could learn. I used LibreOffice to show them the basic elements of word processing.I only knew how to type and format the texts. I didn't know some of the other elements. To my surprise, the fifth graders started doing a lot more than what I had shown them. I even asked them to show me how they were able to insert images and where they got it from.<h2>Self-Expression and Creativity</h2>Most of them made a document with a computer image in it. Some wanted to recreate the QWERTY Touch-Typing application screen. So they wanted a computer with three icons on it that said “You Did It!” just like the feedback screen on our Touch-Typing application QWERTY. Almost all of them had “TechLit Africa” somewhere on their document.Manu even wrote a thank you note to Nelly and Tyler and also TechLit Africa. It read “I thank Nelly and Tyler because since I joined this school i have been attending computer classes. Now I know how to use Inkscape and OpenShot. If it was not for TechLit I would not have known what a computer is.”

Students at Zawadi Academy Learn More Than Their Teacher in Word Processing / Document Editing Digital Literacy Specialty Lesson

This week, I introduced my students to Document Editing because they are hungry for new computer skills. After just one lesson, they already know more than I do. They created such complicated documents and even a thank you note.

Document Editing at Zawadi Academy

Tyler Cinnamon is a American programmer and entrepreneur. He started TechLit Africa with Nelly Cheboi in 2018 to disrupt poverty with used IT devices.

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