Balázs, with all due respect to both Epukiro and the Smithsonian, the initiatives that lie somewhere in-between the charm of rural settings and the clout of established institutions don't grab attention as easily. Check out blog posts tagged "global education program" at the WMF Global Blog and you'll see them (unfortunately two of us - at least that I know of - were not awarded scholarships for Wikimania to share our work and interact with other Wikimedians and educators)
Mina ----- Original Message ----- From: Sophie Österberg To: Wikimedia Education Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 8:16 PM Subject: Re: [Wikimedia Education] blog post from Namibia
Balázs, are there any specific ones you have in mind? Those in between which are 'missed'.
/ sophie
2013/7/13 Balázs Viczián balazs.viczian@wikimedia.hu
Aha.
I feel that people are either targeting African jungles/other extremely remote places or to the locally famous/large universities/colleges and barely anything is targeted in between them.
I'm not telling you that there is nothing at all (there are a few examples of such educational programs), simply I just wish to raise the awarness that there are many other educational facilities in between Epukiro Post 3 Junior Secondary School in rural Namibia and the Smithonian in Washington D.C.
Balázs
2013/7/13 Everton Zanella Alvarenga everton.alvarenga@okfn.org
2013/7/11 Balázs Viczián balazs.viczian@wikimedia.hu:
> Would be interesting to see a similar project somewhere in rural Europe or > the US,
Interesting idea. You made me curious and made me look for some data on rural schools in US. According to this 2010 data[1] it seems we don't even need to go to rural areas. As an example, look at California, where we have more 5 to 17 years old in families living in poverty in town than in rural areas.
As a cultural curiosity, I wonder what would be the results of a survey for professor with questions about Wikipedia in schools of poor districts of USA.
[1] http://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ruraled/tables/a.1.a.-6_2010.asp
This reminds me my high school in a public school of São Paulo (1996-1998), where we had a good computer lab to train AutoCAD software, but it was never used, since teachers didn't know how to use these new computers. Same thing with my brother, who became a Linux geek at the age of 15, but the school director kept the computer lab doors closed and he could not spend his time with something he loved. Quite the opposite, teachers were sometimes wrong things to him or underestimating his intelligence.
I gave these two examples of public school in the richest town of South America to tell about teachers who simply didn't know how to use some tools everybody had access to.
P. S. AutoCAD for the level of things I needed that time is easier than editing Wikipedia.
Tom
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