L2L is beginning a completely new phase of educational
support at Kokobe Primary School.
Through a collaboration with Arizona State University, we will be
bringing “education in a box” to the students.
The XO Laptops currently used will be phased out and replaced with the
Kindle Fire. Students will be able to
access the SolarSPELL Educational Library. The SolarSPELL is a rugged,
portable, solar-powered digitized library which includes an offline digital
hotspot, designed to simulate an online experience. Currently, more than 275 SPELL libraries have
been deployed across the Pacific and East Africa. The content can be specific to the area and
offer many resources for teachers and students.
The school has little space for a dedicated computer lab and the principal requested our help in building a dedicated computer classroom and library. That
will be phase 1 of the project. The
computer lab will have a solar-powered electrical system to charge computer
hardware.
“SolarSPELL’s mission
is to provide relevant, localized educational content to resource-constrained
locations around the world.” To
Learn more about SolarSPELL visit solarspell.org.
