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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/22/2009 Posts: 7,941
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vinii wrote:McReggae wrote:I shake my head when some 'right' thinking niggas defend the laptop project as a priority for this country, please guys you can only suck up as much......don't lose your head and faculties while at it.......SORRY. nditto mcdoba Totally agree with @McReggae. This laptops business is a TOTAL WASTE of OUR money. Lets get our priorities right! Have you seen some of the schools Kenyan kids go to?? No classes, no desks, no chairs, no books, not enough teachers etc. etc. Sort this things out first! I would understand equipping each school with a computer lab with approx. 30 computers that can be used by ALL the students in the school - with proper timetabling. How many of us buy laptops for our kids before ensuring they have the basics? Then why isn't this misplaced priorities and wastage not obvious to some? Never count on making a good sale. Have the purchase price be so attractive that even a mediocre sale gives good returns.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 5/1/2010 Posts: 3,024 Location: Hapa
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Shak wrote:Bigchick wrote:Guys, once again its our noise and actions that will save us.
Let us demand to know what the house needs extra.It has never been occupied so its as new as it was done.I believe it has all the basics.Extras can be done at his personal costs not ours.
The DP himself must address this to Kenyans.
As for the county budgets, tusichoke, let us continue Mulikaing them and shame them too.
A credible issue based civil society is needed urgently.
A sad headline indeed. @ big chick, sorry but i couldo't post the link. The money is meant for installing cctv, putting up an electric fence and other mundane stuff like changing the finishes eg. They want the flush doors to be changed to mahogany panel doors, mazeras stone around the swimming pool etc. Priorities nazo? Ruto house upgrade to cost Kenyans Shs100mFloat like a butterfly, sting like a bee. - Muhammad Ali🐝
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Rank: Elder Joined: 2/22/2009 Posts: 2,449 Location: Africa
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Rwanda is also trying to do the same. Maybe it would be good to see what impact it has had on learning.
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Rank: Member Joined: 2/7/2013 Posts: 447 Location: Nairobi
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nakujua wrote:Meduza wrote:xyzee wrote:100m aside, the biggest waste coming soon is 53B on laptops, many of us touched the first computer keyboard after high school and yet many of them are IT gurus making a living out of it.
It would make more sense to build a computer lab for every school. Those children in Tana who read under the tree, have never seen a black board, how now will they upgrade to laptops. I really wonder why the president couldn't just say that he has reconsidered this project to first build schools in the arid areas...but then again, how much can be made in terms of tendering can be made in building schools in arid areas? Me thinks this laptop project is going ahead because somebody will make big bucks not to help the children. Why do they seem lost in priority really? some of those children who read under trees and have never seen a blackboard, probably have used a mobile phone and can operate one comfortably - the world will not wait for kenya to build classrooms, if you can get the kids to access information wherever they are I say go for it. Education is not the physical class room that kids sit in, its the knowledge impacted on them from an early age. Building computer labs in every school will be a very murky affair and will take some time - I say if people can take care of their mobile phones even in the rural areas, then we can unleash upon whole households the power of information and what better way to do it than using a form of a computer. lets for once think outside the box I wish they would have initiated the computer project from the Secondary school level. Are we doing so badly in the current way of learning? I don't think so. They should first make Education reachable to every child in primary school..that will create uniformity.. how about security of the laptops, have they thought about that? I wont be surprised that half of them will disappear within the first year due to the rate of insecurity in the country. I feel this project was not really well thought of. It reminds me of Nyayo bus...I hear MO1 went to some country huko ulaya...though it was a great idea, his govt forgot to do the their research on how it was going to work in Kenya...the project stalled... You cant win, unless you first begin....
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Rank: Veteran Joined: 11/19/2010 Posts: 1,308 Location: nairobi metropolitan
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McReggae wrote:Inferiority complex just like superiority complex is a disease sorry if I suffer from one, I maintain it is sick to support this white elephant is the right priority in the current kenyan economic situation..........I forget it's the easiest way to get hands into the cookie jar!!!!......@githundi pole if you feel intimidated by the chief, it's the only way to survive in an intimidating environment. What do I say?... Omera. Good to see we are now positively communicating. Don't worry about intimidation, wazuans won't let you fry in a frying pan unfairly.  Democracy does not belong to the dead
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/17/2008 Posts: 23,365 Location: Nairobi
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MaichBlack wrote:vinii wrote:McReggae wrote:I shake my head when some 'right' thinking niggas defend the laptop project as a priority for this country, please guys you can only suck up as much......don't lose your head and faculties while at it.......SORRY. nditto mcdoba Totally agree with @McReggae. This laptops business is a TOTAL WASTE of OUR money. Lets get our priorities right! Have you seen some of the schools Kenyan kids go to?? No classes, no desks, no chairs, no books, not enough teachers etc. etc. Sort this things out first! I would understand equipping each school with a computer lab with approx. 30 computers that can be used by ALL the students in the school - with proper timetabling. How many of us buy laptops for our kids before ensuring they have the basics? Then why isn't this misplaced priorities and wastage not obvious to some? A friend of mine did his MBA project based on education in Gem district, one Govt school only had the headteacher as a TSC employee......all the teachers in that school were UTs.......supporting the laptops project is simply sucking up too much........it's not what needs to be done in our as a priority country today. ..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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Rank: Chief Joined: 8/24/2009 Posts: 5,909 Location: Nairobi
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Shak wrote:Rwanda is also trying to do the same. Maybe it would be good to see what impact it has had on learning. I thought this was already implemented in Rwanda... One laptop per child in Rwanda
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/17/2008 Posts: 23,365 Location: Nairobi
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nostoppingthis wrote:Shak wrote:Rwanda is also trying to do the same. Maybe it would be good to see what impact it has had on learning. I thought this was already implemented in Rwanda... One laptop per child in Rwanda I think just in some specific schools, it's not universal!!!! ..."Wewe ni mtu mdogo sana....na mwenye amekuandika pia ni mtu mdogo sana!".
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Rank: Elder Joined: 5/21/2013 Posts: 2,841 Location: Here
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nostoppingthis wrote:Shak wrote:Rwanda is also trying to do the same. Maybe it would be good to see what impact it has had on learning. I thought this was already implemented in Rwanda... One laptop per child in Rwanda It's a work in progress. As of 2009, only Uruguay had succeeded in providing universal access to computers under the one laptop per child program. African countries participating in the program include Rwanda, Ghana and our neighbor to the north, Ethiopia. http://en.m.wikipedia.or...ki/One_Laptop_Per_Child
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Rank: Elder Joined: 8/4/2008 Posts: 2,849 Location: Rupi
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MaichBlack wrote:vinii wrote:McReggae wrote:I shake my head when some 'right' thinking niggas defend the laptop project as a priority for this country, please guys you can only suck up as much......don't lose your head and faculties while at it.......SORRY. nditto mcdoba Totally agree with @McReggae. This laptops business is a TOTAL WASTE of OUR money. Lets get our priorities right! Have you seen some of the schools Kenyan kids go to?? No classes, no desks, no chairs, no books, not enough teachers etc. etc. Sort this things out first! I would understand equipping each school with a computer lab with approx. 30 computers that can be used by ALL the students in the school - with proper timetabling. How many of us buy laptops for our kids before ensuring they have the basics? Then why isn't this misplaced priorities and wastage not obvious to some? All that is needed is a computer lab and one computer teacher. And in the school timetable, have computer lessons for each class. This thing of one laptop per child is a big nonsense. Lord, thank you!
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