[Rwanda-learningteam] re-send

Tue Apr 27 16:00:06 EDT 2010

Hey David,

I think it is a great idea. I am writing some short pieces as suggested.

A few scheduling comments:
The GIS group is doing their initial geocache work at Kagugu the week
of May 3. Depending on our desired involvement, we may need to take
this into account.

Also, we also have the following trainings scheduled:
Monday: Escaf 2-4
Tuesday: --
Wed: Nonko 8-11, Escaf 12:30-1:30, Kagugu 3-5
Thursday: Rwamgana 3-5
Friday: Escaf 12:30-1:30

Lastly, Jimmy and Desire will be working in Uganda May 6-11.

Maybe a retreat weekend would be best?

Do you think it would be appropriate to invite anyone from the schools to join?

Another goal of the retreat may be (through the below discussion
topics) to further define the actions of the Center for L & L as
separate from some of the work happening in Rwanda. So just as we have
been doing the last few weeks--despite the plans of MINEDUC and with
or without the core team, we still have leeway and the ability to
create powerful learning experiences for teachers, students,
interns....

Thanks
Julia

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 8:09 PM, David Cavallo <cavallo at laptop.org> wrote:
> My first attempt at this was too big and needed moderator approval. I am
> pasting the text of the document into the email body.
>
> -email text:
> I want to have a retreat as soon as possible so that we can work
> effectively. The attached document explains the ideas and makes requests for
> contributions from the team. Let's use this list for discussion.
>
> Since Juliano and Silvia will arrive at the end of next week, I propose
> having the retreat on the week of May 3.
>
> Thanks and best wishes,
> dc
>
>
> document:
>
> OLPC Rwanda Retreat
>
> In order to best plan for the rest of the year, I think it would be useful
> for us to have a retreat in order to focus and go into sufficient depth on
> all the issues. I am thinking of a 3-day retreat where only the OLPC team
> participates the first day; the second day we add Nkubito and Richard (and
> any other people they advocate); and the third day we include potential NGO
> partners such as Partners in Health, Search for Common Ground; ESRI, and any
> other organization which we would hope to include.
>
> We need to emerge from the retreat will solid, concrete goals and plans for
> the year. While I do not want to spend money, I think being away together
> and able to spend informal time discussing issues is beneficial. If we can
> find somewhere reasonable to hold the retreat, we will do so. Otherwise, we
> will remain in Kigali but try to focus on the important task at hand.
>
> Questions for all of you to consider include (where possible answers include
> doing nothing so that we can best focus and not spread too thin and become
> ineffective):
>
> •    What constitutes success for OLPC in Rwanda?
> •    What goals should we have for this year?
> •    What are the key activities we should foster in order to achieve these
> goals?
> •    What do we need to do so that there can be real development and
> transformation beyond this year?
> •    How do we provide children with the best possible learning experiences
> at scale?
> •    How can we best leverage the few resources we have in order to help
> create the greatest possible positive impact?
> •    How do we best build capacity in Rwanda and the region?
> •    How can we create the best exemplars for laptops and learning?
> •    How do we best extend beyond where we can personally go in order to
> provide powerful, meaningful experiences to children, their families, and
> communities?
> •    How do we best help transform the learning environment so that Rwanda
> can achieve the goals of Vision 2020, poverty reduction, and truly take
> advantage of saturated access to laptops?
> •    What should we do to help foster environments where people develop true
> respect for the full human rights of others; learn to develop means to avoid
> conflict; learn to understand the points of view of others, etc.?
> •    How do we better help make true learning communities and places that
> support them?
> •    How can we get more and better learning materials into the hands of
> children, teachers and families?
> •    How do we better use social media?
> •    How to better spread ideas about learning?
> •    How should we use all media?
> •    How can we better support the other countries in the region who are
> also beginning laptop initiatives?
> •    How do we better get the ideas for learning, the materials, and the
> activities spread more broadly globally?
> •    How do we better get new ideas from others into our work?
>
> This already extensive list could continue. As I said, I want to make
> certain we both go deeply (and thus not too broadly) and end with shared
> understanding and concrete activities.
>
> Thus, my requests from all of you are to:
>
> •    Write some short pieces on ideas and activities within the scope of the
> retreat to lead to deeper discussion
> •    Add questions and topics that you believe essential that I did not
> include
> •    Suggest others we should invite
> •    Suggest an alternative framework for the retreat
>
> Let’s try to use the next few days to clarify the retreat, the topics, and
> begin the discussion electronically.
>
> Thanks as always to all of you for the effort and positive attitude.
> -David
>
>
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