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AGE Closing the
digital divide between nations and between rural/urban
Try to
distribute your contents through CD Roms or Flash online systems, it would be costly and
challenging.
Without these two, do you have any other way to do
it?
With AGE you have.
To all Ministries of Education trying to introduce ICT to
rural schools ...get
AGE
If you want your
ICT in mass Education
to succeed, use AGE to create the modules.
Otherwise success will be elusive no matter how much money
you put into it.
To quote Microsoft's Unlimited potential's
comments...
Quote "Several barriers stand
in the way of effectively reaching these underserved
communities, including environmental or infrastructural
obstacles, localization issues, the need for personalized
solutions, and the prohibitive cost of technology.
To better serve these people,
Microsoft Unlimited Potential combines advanced technologies
and strong partnerships with governments, international
organizations, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs),
educational institutions, and technology and service
partners. Ultimately our mission is to enable sustained
social and economic opportunity for those at the middle and
bottom of the world’s economic pyramid—the next 5 billion
people. " unquote
This proves the problems are real and we see no solution in
sight using current technology. AGE is precisely aimed
to overcome such inhibitions and aims to reach out to the
next 5 billion people using a simple technique of reaching
out to the poor or excluded.
Equitable education to rural/urban areas. A project to
close the digital divide among nations and among the urban
and rural areas.
Imagine the entire animated
Additional Mathematics contents for Form 4 and 5 combined
created under AGE platform took less than 1.4 mbyte in size !
Impossible? try this.
Download
90% of Additional Maths - only 1.09 mbytes !
(to run it you must download
AGE
Homework tools
first )
Minutes/seconds of downloads you get months/days of usage!
AGE is the poor man's solution that rich can use too. Runs
on new and legacy computers up to Win XP - the solution to
global
Education for all (EFA). Particularly effective for ULPCs. Education for All
- UNESCO target date 2015
Fast track initiatives -
Read more
More about FTI
.
http://www.education-fast-track.org
AGE Paperless Homework Tools and contents
- a new platform for a greener world can accelerate progress
towards achieving Education for All.
How AGE accelerates EFA and helps to achieve EFA by the target 2015.
Current situation -
The target towards Education for All
by the year 2015 is in danger of
missing the target.
This is not surprising in view of the inhibitions faced by
implementers of ICT in Mass education in many countries especially
third world countries where the budgets for such are limited.
It does not matter how much money or resources is put into the
project for EFA, it is going to take really great efforts to succeed
simply because no technology is available today to enable it so.
Most ICT platforms in place are meant for easy to reach and
well-to-do areas e.g urban schools with Labs. Most are CD/DVD based
or online Internet based.
EFA is about empowering the poor students and not the rich who are
mostly in the urban or semi urban areas. Try bringing ICT to these
rural areas are big challenges. Even the OLPC project is not
going to help much if contents cannot be made available. Check out a
feature story about AGE at
New Educational
Content for Old Computers
There are a hosts of problems that just
cannot be overcome by current technology and to date not a single
country can safely claim to be successful in implementing ICT in
mass education including the most developed countries much less so
the third world countries.
What AGE Homework Tools
do...
AGE will provide all countries (especially third world countries)
free use of tools and contents. AGE would empower their teachers
digitally for free and AGE would save their trees and money too.
AGE in a single stroke will be able to
overcome many of the inhibitions to allow very effective delivery of
contents as well as AGE solutions to empower teachers to be able to
create self correcting digital contents even in the middle of
nowhere using currently available equipments, technology and AGE.
On top of that by using AGE, the number of trees that need to
support papers used in Education would be tremendously cut and
pressure on chopping trees down for such would be dampened.
Imagine if each child is to save 3 reams of
paper per year, how many reams or trees would be saved. Saving the
trees means you save the environment, the rivers, the animals, the
birds and the climate. All these without efforts because benefits
for doing so is so overwhelming. See benefits
www.paperlesshomework.com/Ybenefits.htm
We the developers of AGE, are willing to
allow countries to use our tools to create contents for free.
Schools can have the tools and contents created by us for free since
we are sufficiently financed by our Malaysian government grants and
other sponsors. These free tools and contents are worth millions
given free.
Help us to help the world
Immediate benefits:-
1. teachers will be free of all hard part of teaching
...correcting question papers and collating
the students' marks.!
2. teachers will be able to access a good and wide
variety of tested modules
3. students save time and money (without having to pay
for photocopies of homework)
4. If each student saves two
reams of paper per year, 10 million students will save
20 million reams of papers ...and that is a lot trees
saved( better than recycling)
( Malaysia has been reported to
be the world's biggest increase in carbon usage per
capita!!! Let's reduce the use of carbon)
5. Students will have
less books to carry to schools....lighter school bags
6. Classes will be more lively and students pay more attentions.
7. Equitable education for rural and urban areas.
8. Governments do not have to spend hundreds of millions for
computers!
Most important of all...
students will learn fast with easy and good materials. Ideal for use
in
classrooms and do the exercises in classes. You would be
amazed how the classes will come to life.
We have done it in schools and know how effective this would be
...bring life back to your classes.
... and it is free for all schools...because right now we are funded by
the Malaysian government.
Teachers can now
create their own interactive digital contents easily with AGE and
very easily distribute them and be used easily by untrained
kids/teachers. See
video
Scores/marks can be easily sent back to teachers
See
video and
teachers can easily collate the scores into MS excel.
See
video
Everything
simplified from production to collating the scores. Saves time,
money and energy ( less headaches too).
Even teachers who loathe computers, can easily participate.
It is meant for teachers who, in spite of all the
technologies and software available, find that giving digital
homework assignments are too involved, impractical and costly.
AGE is a simple solution to
enable ordinary teachers of the world to effectively make use
of computer technology without inhibitions normally associated with
using computers in schools and enables a near paperless
classrooms without the high costs (no PDAs, no Tablet PCs or
IPODs ....but just plain old diskettes) for a
GREENER
WORLD. It is also about freedom. Freedom
by teachers able to create digital materials unrestricted by cost
and technology.
Contact us today for
collaboration to make this world a better place.
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