Irene Pepit is our school lead educator for Zawadi Yetu in Mogotio, Kenya.

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Today, my story comes from a grade 5 boy called Bowen. Since word processing was introduced, he has been really into it. Bowen likes documents more than other specialties.He has been practicing bolding and editing words since the first day. At first,it was a bit challenging for him. He was really figuring out how at the end he can have his own written document.So now, during breaks and lunch hours, he comes to the lab to work on a new project: a notice to other students about the environment. Bowen asks for my help every time. His aim was to make sure that he wrote the notice on the computer.His classmates weren’t sure what to use word documents for. Some were just writing their names and others were typing the names of their friends and school. Bowen was the first student to think of how to use word documents.During his 35 minute class on Wednesday he finished his notice. The rest of the class were asking him where he got the idea. He told them that some might write compositions and others might write recipes. They were happy because now they had ideas about how to use word documents.I am confident that we have a typist, script writer, speech writer in the making.

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This week, a student of mine wrote a notice for his school about Environment Celebration Day. He was so inspired that he came to the computer lab between classes to practice.

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On Tuesday, I was in Zawadi Yetu Academy to step in for their teacher, Irene Pepit, who was unable to report on that day.&nbsp;We had previously introduced the concept of a director where we give one of the kids a phone and then that one kid goes around the classroom taking pictures and recording videos of the lesson. This is our way of teaching photography and videography in our TechLit classes.On this particular day I had fifth grade, which is known for their smartness and drive when it comes to computer classes. We were doing a project in Scratch, and the director of the day was called Ogutu. He understood the assignment and started taking photos. I never once had to correct him. For example, I never had to tell him to take pictures in portrait mode and not landscape, this bright boy already knew what to do.I continued with my work and the next time I turned around to see how our director was carrying on with the assignment, I was surprised to find him going around, picking the students who were done with their project, taking them aside with their laptops, having them sit down and then he would do some sort of an interview while recording the interview. He was like "Can you tell us more about this project. Explain what it's all about, how it works and how you've made it."I was honestly amazed, he just took the role of the teacher, director and interviewer at the same time. He would be like "No, can you move this way, I need to take a good video. That's a nice project. Go sit down, I'm done with you. I need a new person here. Next?"😂😂I had to sit back and watch. I did not give instructions anymore, I just let the director take control and he was doing it perfectly. I took a rest because Ogutu had me covered.

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A student director ran the show this week in Zawadi Yetu Academy. Ogutu, a 5th grader, interviewed students about their projects.

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Zawadi Yetu was TechLit's first primary school in Kenya.Visit Zawadi Yetu's website to learn more <a href="https://zawadiyetu.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">zawadiyetu.com</a>

Zawadi Yetu was TechLit's first primary school in Kenya. Visit Zawadi Yetu's website to learn more <a href="https://zawadiyetu.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">zawadiyetu.com</a>

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