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Please, somebody text me;

”Do you ALWAYS remember to wash your hands before eating?”

+358 50 5644145

For Lifelong eLearning – case SharingAwareness™

Mr Tuomas ErkkiläProject Manager

MKFC Helsinki CollegeSharingAwareness™

Shortly About My Background

• M.Ed., main subject music education• Administrative studies• Doctoral thesis ”almost” ready• Working experience as music teacher and chief

education officer, permanent post in town of Nokia, Finland

• On leave from there, working for SharingAwareness™ project since Oct 2009

• Project in Finland coordinated by Apuperille ry

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It’s About

Huge Progress, So Rapidly…

The number of mobile users grew from 10 million in 2000 to more than 180 million in 2007. Competition among operators produced a race to extend networks to cover more and more people. Coverage increased from 4 percent of the population in 1998 to 62 percent in 2006. The widespread use of prepaid telephone service—the form of payment chosen by 97 percent of consumers in Sub-Saharan Africa—has made services accessible for the first time to low-income households.

(source; www.infrastructureafrica.org)

And Now?

• 90 % population coverage this year expected, In Africa overall

Antennas Everywhere, And in the Middle of Nowhere

What Does This Mean – for Lifelong eLearning?

A dramatic change and huge possibilities for;- truly global communication – in seconds- complete equality in education- accessibility - distance learning- enormous need for additional teacher

training!

On the Other Hand…

• Mobile and call prices are western, but living standard and incomes genarally low

• What does it mean?– For instance, choices between…

– OR

What is SharingAwareness™?

• Project in health education. Teacher training workshops given in Zambia and work beginning in Ghana Feb 8th 2010

• Pedagogical approach; Active Learning• Working with teachers, in co-operation with local team

leaders• Working in and for distance learning – what ever it might be

(”Distance learning is for those who find it difficult to attend classes. Distance learning means that studying is not restricted by time and place – you can study for the most part when and where it suits you." (source; www.aikuislukiot.fi)

• Development aid• Managed by MKFC Stockholm College, Sweden

For Example – eLearning in Practise

• Short example when educating in Ndola, Zambia

• This is how it goes;– Short discussion– Group works activated– Extra material shared– Presentations given– Recordings made– Making video and producing DVD’s – in minutes

-> For lifelong eLearning

Main Problem in Development Aid Projects

• That they are projects – with a beginning and an END

• How to root the work into the society, how to raise up a local commitment – to guarantee that the work continues regardless of the existence of foreign help?

One Answer - CAP work in Ghana

“In a community where hope seemed lost, our children were constantly ill, our mothers and wifes were always tired. The community was polluted, we could not sit outside, for mosquitoes plagued the environment.We had given up hope. But we never thought that through the simple steps of Sharing Awareness, we could change our community!Our children are healthier, our mothers and wifes' now sit outside and laugh with each other. Our community has changed! and now we know if we can, you can too!”

By The Chief of Niliyungdo Bimbila District, Northern Ghana comments on local changes for better health and living conditions, brought out by the village people together with the local MKFC CAP Team.

Community Action Planreduce malariabetter nutrition and health

in poorest rural villages

MKFC

Sharing Awareness –

active citizenship

Goal: Minimizing malaria and other diseases Way: Shared Awareness new habits

http://www.stockholmcollege.se/community-action-plan-ghana/

Health education in schools –project

• What: Teachers are educated for 1) giving health education and 2) maintaining health inspections in schools

• Where: In rural villages and urban areas in African countries

• When: 2009-2012• In co-operation:

Käymäläseura Huussi ryApuperille ry

Better nutrition & health through eLearning

eLearning & mobiles:Community Action Plan

Participation Observation

ParticipatingMethod

Supporters Total Visibility


Partici-pating

method

500-1000 people

Supporters Total Visibility


Partici-pating

method

500-1000 people


Health Education

500-1000 people


Local resources

+ new habits

500-1000 people


Investi-gation

New solutions

500-1000 people


Sustainable change

500-1000 people

Other Examples of eLearning-courses in MKFC

• eCitizen & ICDL• Environment and Sustainable Development• Tourism• Social Media• Health Care modules

Lifelong eLearning

• People will never be left alone with their challenges• Our help is as close as the closest computer or

mobile phone is. And not just theoretically, even in practise.

Flying from Finland to Zambia takes about 24 hours, calling there just a few seconds.Flying there costs about1100 euros, using skype practically nothing.

SharingAwareness™ - Making it in practise

• Dividing us in groups; a) Short video using mobile cameras – to be placed

in sharingawareness YouTubeb) Txt messages – first to me, then to Zambia and

Ghanac) Twitter – you can do it by yourselfd) E-Mails

Please, choose your preference

Instructions

• Please, select the method of Your message with a pair• I have 20 Handbooks with me, some help may be found there.

Maybe not everybody needs one. • Please make a note (question, answers, regards, supports)

– by a short video, with question and answers– by a couple of txt messages or twitter – By E-mails– By facebook– And send to (either [email protected]; txt +358 50 5644145 or

twitter/facebook/YouTube named ”apuperille” • I will place them to these places and you will be able to see

afterwords how the work is going. Register if you like. It’s up to you.

mailto:[email protected]

This was a descripition of our battle for human rights for lifelong learning.

To happen not only in our lives and for our increasing knowledge, but also in developing areas for saving

more and more lives from completely needless deaths.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST!

Contacts; [email protected];[email protected]; +358 50 5644145 skype; ”sharingawareness”

