08/17/10 by Aprender Team | Blog | No Comments »
Our team were finally re-united in Uberlandia, a city Aprender has visited on many occasions but only as a transit point. Our strategy is to find a local church we can work with, who understands and supports our objectives and who has good community networks. ‘Missao Sal da Terra’ has it’s roots in local mission and is the charity that has invited Phil and the family to work with them and helped with the visa. Their HQ is Uberlandia and so we were able to make contact with Pastor Vivaldo and Pastor Gilberto who have been fantastic.
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03/17/10 by Aprender Team | Blog | No Comments »
Our link school in Goiania, Brazil is really going places. Having spent the last two summers with the staff there, helping, encouraging and, most importantly, listening to both teachers and students, we are seeing a transformation in the look and feel of the school. We’ll be able to show some photos on a later blog. The key development this week has been an email I received from Marcelo, our man on the ground. He needs a teacher training programme to begin with the staff that are part of the, what they call ‘Thematic classes’.
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03/09/10 by Aprender Team | Blog | No Comments »
Our Director of Sport at school recently attended a Youth Sport Trust event at the Emirates stadium, London. One of the outcomes was news that YST are branching out into Brazil. Aprender has emailed them to see if there can be some synergy – particularly excited about it as our pilot school in Goiania has recently worked really hard to clear the scrubland to make some space for PE. It would be great to help them in this area.
11/26/09 by Aprender Team | Blog | No Comments »
3 hour meeting today regarding future use of ICT in education. What is our vision? What affects our vision – our dreams? Does everyone visioneer in the same way, with the same framework? Probably not. What happens when a team of people are visioneering and most are not really visioneers? Its’ not a criticism but an observation. Some people simply don’t ‘get’ vision. It’s not their bag.
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11/23/09 by Aprender Team | Blog | No Comments »
Just how much will information technology play a part in the acceleration of progress in education in Brazil? If you you-tube brazilian education you’ll see a whole range of postings talking about the ‘laptops for kids’ initiative. Large, multi-national electronics and computing companies are doing a lot to support this great government scheme. To help young people connect into the resources that the internet can offer can certainly help advance their studies – and why not!? But ICT is not the utopian solution that some are suggesting.
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11/15/09 by Aprender Team | Blog | No Comments »
What influences us, or who, or why are we influenced? Are we conscious of influence? All the time? What’s the connection between motivation and influence? What comes first? I’ve just watched a series of mini-tasters of a DVD collection from work by a guy called Simon Guillebaud from the GLO initiative. Inspirational. Check it out. I want that to influence me.
11/14/09 by Aprender Team | Blog | No Comments »
some great opportunities opening up for Aprender. Lots to do. Home front not so good. Kids and wife have the flu to varying degrees. It’s pouring with rain and blowing a gale. But I’m well and in a centrally heated home so i consider myself very fortunate.
