The Otumfuo-Agroecom Mobile Learning Project (OAMLP) has resumed after a two-month break following the team’s stay in Wioso where the community got their fair share of practical knowledge in Information Communication Technology (ICT), Reading, and customs.
Today, the van is in the Ahafo Ano South-East district, specifically, Biemso for a two-week stay.
Over there, the project facilitators will equip students from different schools with the needed practical knowledge in ICT, Reading, and Community Cinema sessions.
For ICT, the focus will be on how to properly hold and use the mouse, the functions of the keyboard, features of the desktop, how to create a folder, how to personalise the computer, and basic skills of typing using Mavis Beacon, Microsoft Office Suite, painting using the computer, and many others.
The pupils will be taught how to develop a set of reading strategies and match appropriate strategies to each reading situation Previewing, Predicting, Skimming and Scanning, Guessing from context and Paraphrasing as well as the letters of the 42 sounds of English for effective reading skills, word pronunciations as well as how to use the dictionary.
Between the hours of 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm, each evening will feature the edutainment moment of the course for both children and adults known as the Community Cinemas sessions. Films of the Asante tradition (Adaekese ceremony) from Manhyia Palace, videos on conducted interviews with Cocoa farmers, videos of Agroecom, videos on the children’s classroom sessions, and a platform for Agroecom were televised after which they held discussions with the community.
Alongside the education will be the Smile Dental Outreach project in the community. This means a mobile dental team will provide dental services to students in the community.
The OAMLP is a project of the Otumfuo Osei Tutu II Foundation in partnership with licensed Cocoa Buying Company Agroecom which makes provision for 100 sets of laptops and two desktops powered by a generator for the ICT lessons, a makeshift library, and films for the Cinemas session which moves from one rural community to another with the aim of bridging the gap between rural and urban education in Ghana.
Since 2017, 62,646 pupils and 107 communities throughout 28 districts have benefitted from the project.
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