[Wikimedia-in-en] Fwd from mr-wiki - Experience of taking Wiki academy at lesser known site of digital devide

Sat Jan 14 04:58:19 UTC 2012

Very instructive post.

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From: Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia <mahitgar at yahoo.co.in>
Date: Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 9:47 AM
Subject: [mr-wiki] Experience of taking Wiki academy at lesser known site
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Hi all,

12.05 pm  13th Jan 2012 ,Principal's Cabin at Abasaheb Prashala Day School
near 15August Square Rastapeth Pune ; A visibly anoyed mother with her
middle school son visits principal to discuss her sons school absentism
the mother informs sons father is expired five years ago , She is working
as home maid at some  middle class families and making a living; Principal
does her job very well ; seems such situations are quite regular and routin
to the principal madam.

12.15-12.30 School prayer And at 12.30 bell  Wikipedia Academy -Sans any
projector or laptop only help available  is the black board , a chalk and a
duster-  begins in Standard 8A aprox 35-40 students (An equal mix of girls
and boys)

Students are asked to show their hands to find out what do they know about
internet only one hand comes up and rest of the faces are blank and now
the  Wikipedian knows the challenge at hand. Mind the fact that the day
before School teacher informs that Wikipedia is part of School syllabus in
english language for 8th standard since 1999 usually he teaches the first
page of the lesson the rest of the pages can not be given justice without
internet support (for aprox 20,00,000 every year ) students across
Maharashtra .The class goes ahead the wikipedians requests to make stack of
all their books on a table and request for a Home Work note book with a
promis that it will not be opened, one girl gets convinced and provides the
same .

Childern smartly give different different answers when asked what is their
in their bunch of school books , Most of them say "study" one Student
answers as Mahiti ie.information and a shy girl answers as Knowldge.The
students know that knowledge available in bunch of school is limited and
there on concept of encyclopedia is explained the word they never heared
before, they answer smartly  the wikipedian explains  By now children are
getting in interactive mode discussion goes about curiosity information and
knowldge . Without any teaching aid demo laptop how do one explains what is
internet ? Luckily children knew about computers So with crude examples a
book was a web portal and pages ther in were web pages and then rest of
internet story without internet at hand .(May be few schools in rural areas
still wont have computers too and wont know how a teacher explains what is
Computer)

Now the student who provided Home Work note book is asked What will be her
reaction if not herself but other students from the class write her home
work note book turn by turn  ,The entire class of students smiles freely
and a smile comes even on the face of the class teacher , who was very
patiantly sitting in last row of the class for wikipedia  academy.

Wikipedia home page is drawn on black-board and The black board itself is
edit window . When asked any doubts faces blank, about a thing they never
saw what doubts they will ask ? But when asked what is Wikipedia ? a girl
student Laxmi stands up and answers what she understood to her  best about
wikipedia in learned in Wiki academy Students are requested to clap for her
correct answer and a chorus of clapps begins !!

Later Principal agrees to importance of introduction to internet and
informs about their schools steps to upgradation of computer lab
infrastructure , After a  cup of tea with the class teacher,the  Wikipedia
leaves school premises for next meeting.

Before one day that is on 12th Jan we receive info that a pilot project in
some of Maharashtra schools will be extended from coming academic year to
all schools mandatorily along with practical unicode Marathi  typing and
internet , with a chance to explore further collaboration for marathi
language wikisource and school board .

Rgds
-Mahitgar from Marathi Wikipedia

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