Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Namibia Edition (ID: 22680147)
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Applicant Details
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Josaphat Tjiho
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Main Proposal
edit- 1. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Namibia Edition
- 2. and 3. Proposed start and end dates for the proposal.
2024-08-01 - 2024-10-31
- 4. Where will this proposal be implemented? (required)
Namibia
- 5. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign, project, or event? If so, please select the relevant project or campaign. (required)
Not applicable
- 6. What is the change you are trying to bring? What are the main challenges or problems you are trying to solve? Describe this change or challenges, as well as main approaches to achieve it. (required)
In Namibia, the teachers are not digitally trained teachers for a 21st-century children. They still use the whiteboard markers, and they are not equipped with using OERS to teach and improve their teaching methods and update their teaching resources and materials. They are stacked with the old method of textbooks only without adding online resources.
Many teachers do not even know about Wikipedia not to talk of using it to train in their classrooms which is supposed to help build their media and information literacy skills. These teaching methodologies are not in place in Namibia.
Through this program, This program is aimed at introducing Wikipedia as a teaching-learning tool, particularly to the selected teachers. we aim to create a pilot phase to capacitate a few selected Life Skills teachers on the importance of OERs which will help improve the media and information literacy skills of the teachers using Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom which is in accordance with the UNESCO framework. This will help teachers and learners to access, analyze, and create information, and help them improve their research skills, reflect on the information they have, and become champions of information verifications. Additionally the life skills teachers will be taught on how to use reading Wikipedia in the classrooms to convey messages and information on mental health, psychosocial support, coping strategies on self harm, as well as addiction and substance abuse in schools.
At the end of this program we will create a community of teachers that can use Reading Wikipedia in their Classroom as an important learning resource for their students. The club will be RWIC Club in Namibia.
Through this approach and program, the teachers will receive adequate knowledge and skills on how to multiply the knowledge they gain with their learners.
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This 3-month program which will be blended. It is online and physical training. We will have three phases of the implementation which are:
The planning stage: 1st August- 31st of August:
We will be sending out letters to all identified schools, through the Ministry of Education, notifying them of the intended date for the implementation and we will send out a needs assessment form to the these schools. Two weeks will be allocated for this assessment and we will be collecting the names of the identified teachers for the training.
We will send emails to follow-up with selected teachers for confirmation and a Whatsapp group will be created for the participants and trainers.
Selected high ranking officials from the regional office of the Ministry of Education will also be identified to be part of the training. An exco platform will be created and a series of trainings for the exco will be provided by the trainers. We will create our social media handles and promote the program across all our social media platforms 7.2 Implementation Stage: August 1st to September 1st : Day 1 : Opening Ceremony, Introductory training session and Module 1 Day 2: Module 2 Day 3: Module 3 Day 4: Mental health session Day 5: Graduation Ceremony
Additionally, it will consist of experts from Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture, making sure that there is an element of national context within the school curriculum. we hope to foster an understanding of how to navigate curriculums online by having practical examples during the training and how to interact with Wikipedia articles through using them as references, editing them, identifying them, and eventually creating new knowledge.
These sessions will give the participants and trainers an opportunity to interact with one another, and understand immediate challenges, which will help in monitoring the progress of the teachers.
For this pilot phase we shall select teachers from five different Secondary schools in the Omaheke region, the reason behind this is to make sure that teachers from different schools will bring in their individual and school teaching approaches as well as to become multipliers of these programs in their respective schools. Omaheke region is identified because we have a high rate of marginalized learners, from the San community who may have not been exposed to internet, smartphone etc. and who are dropping out of school at a high rate. This training may help the teachers assist the San learners from their schools to envision the world differently and complete school with a new burst of excitement for the future.
The mental health training will equip the teachers on the various element of learners, self-harm, coping strategies and how to assist with curbing substance abuse challenges within their schools and communities at large. We envision those teachers to lead the change towards the adoption of using Wikipedia as a pedagogical tool in the classrooms in their schools. We are reliant on their motivation to engage the leaders in their schools and networks to understand the importance of the program and convey the necessity of integrating digital mediums of learning in their teaching.
- 8. Describe your team. Please provide their roles, Wikimedia Usernames and other details. (required) Include more details of the team, including their roles, usernames, Wikimedia group, and whether they are salaried, volunteers, consultants/contractors, etc. Team members involved in the grant application need to be aware of their involvement in the project.
We have set up a small team of 4 people that will spearhead the program. The team consist of 1 Certified trainers who will take the lead in the teacher training program, helping both educators and students to develop their vital media and information literacy skills for the 21st century.
Marcella Katjijova: She will be handling training, she is a licensed Psychological Counsellor and will be incorporating the counselling aspect in this training. This is crucial as the teachers deal with learners dealing with mental health challenges and this may cause a delay in understanding any new information, thus training on how to assist learners to grasp better from a psychological aspect will be addressed to make the process easier and not harder for them. Secondly she will guide on how to assist with coping mechanism, substance abuse , self-harm strategies for the teachers. She will be handling training, evaluation, and monitoring of the project and she will be paid Josaphat Tjiho- He is the project lead, a certified Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom trainer, and an experienced trainer on media and information literacy. Username: Joe Tjiho, he will be paid Melissa Guadalupe Huertas from the education team will support the implementation by helping to create the EDX Platform to be used for the training and monitoring the progress of all participants on the platform.
The 4th member of the team is a communications specialist who will take the lead in creating pieces for teacher outreach: social media posts, letters to authorities, emails, etc. to help us register the target number of teachers. Scheduling posts for social media. The person will also select testimonies and relevant data to effectively communicate the impact of the program after its evaluation as well as make sure that everything works out according to the project and its deliverables.
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities? (required)
Our target participants are Secondary school teachers from five different schools in Gobabis, Omaheke Region. These are teachers who teach life skills subjects.
Before the program, We will provide expression of interest forms to the schools for the teachers to fill in. During the training, we will capture images and videos of the teacher's experience and inputs for our social media as well as for monitoring. Additionally, we will have one-on-one online sessions and mentoring sessions with the teachers during the program to get insights into their experiences and suggestions. Before the onboarding, we will create a WhatsApp group for follow-up, mentoring, and our social media platforms.
We will send out a feedback form to understand the knowledge of the teachers and how well they are able to relate to the curriculum and we also do short video interviews to hear the views of the teachers.
- 10. Does your project involve work with children or youth? (required)
No
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- 11. How did you discuss the idea of your project with your community members and/or any relevant groups? Please describe steps taken and provide links to any on-wiki community discussion(s) about the proposal. (required) You need to inform the community and/or group, discuss the project with them, and involve them in planning this proposal. You also need to align the activities with other projects happening in the planned area of implementation to ensure collaboration within the community.
I have announced it on the community meta page, for now though we are yet to be a Usergroup. Talk:Planning Wikimedia Community User Group Namibia - Meta
- 12. Does your proposal aim to work to bridge any of the content knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Socioeconomic Status
- 13. Does your proposal include any of these areas or thematic focus? Select one option that most applies to your work. (required)
Education
- 14. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities? Select one option that most apply to your work. (required)
Digital Access
- 15. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select one that most applies. (required)
Invest in Skills and Leadership Development
Learning and metrics
edit- 17. What do you hope to learn from your work in this project or proposal? (required)
The main reason for this task is to help the Namibian child reach maximum potential through all platforms presented to them, both paper and pen and online through Wikimedia. Learners are using social media platforms for recreational purposes (etc dancing, jokes skits etc) but never for the advancement of their future or research purposes. Additionally we hope to have a better understanding on the challenges that both the teachers and learners faces in Gobabis and how the incorporation of mental health and RWIC can assist both the teachers and the learners to advance and perform better academically. Finally we hope to have a clear understanding on the challenges that the ministry at large faces from their expert and how the RWIC program can assist with mitigating those challenges.
We aim to have a multistakeholderal approach (Teachers, learners, ministry) to have a better understanding on challenges on the ground and how collectively we can contribute to the development of our learners in the country.
- 18. What are your Wikimedia project targets in numbers (metrics)? (required)
| Other Metrics | Target | Optional description |
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| Number of participants | 25 | |
| Number of editors | 15 | |
| Number of organizers | 15 |
| Wikimedia project | Number of content created or improved |
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| Wikipedia | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Wikidata | |
| Wiktionary | |
| Wikisource | |
| Wikimedia Incubator | |
| Translatewiki | |
| MediaWiki | |
| Wikiquote | |
| Wikivoyage | |
| Wikibooks | |
| Wikiversity | |
| Wikinews | |
| Wikispecies | |
| Wikifunctions or Abstract Wikipedia |
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N/A
- 19. Do you have any other project targets in numbers (metrics)? (optional)
No
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- 20. What tools would you use to measure each metrics? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support. (required)
By the number of content created on Wikipedia as well as through the skills and understanding of the participants.
Additionally, I would need more advise and support to further make sure that I have captured the right tools for my intended outcome.
Financial proposal
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- 22. and 22.1. What is the amount you are requesting for this proposal? Please provide the amount in your local currency. (required)
90000 NAD
- 22.2. Convert the amount requested into USD using the Oanda converter. This is done only to help you assess the USD equivalent of the requested amount. Your request should be between 500 - 5,000 USD.
5000 USD
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Yes
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