Presentation by Pixl International at webinar on use of Technology Sep 22

1. PiXL International
How technology can help alternative education
pathways in Tanzania

2. At PiXL International, we seek to complement the work of
others in the field, such as the very welcome online
publication of textbooks by the Tanzania Institute of Education
and the excellent learning resources published by Shule Direct
and others.

3. We complement others by working with school leaders and
district and regional education officers to help schools
improve their exam results, and we use technology in several
different ways. We share PowerPoint presentations with
schools, in English and Kiswahili, to outline school
improvement and leadership development strategies and how
to plan for excellence.

4. Tanzania already has excellent published data on school exam
results in the NECTA website.
We use Excel to analyse this data to give schools and districts a
report of where they are in relation to previous years’ results and
in comparison with other schools in their neighbourhood. The
analyses include gender breakdowns so that the relative
performance of girls and boys can be identified and any issues
addressed. Schools use this data to set their own targets for
improvement in the year ahead. We then analyse their mock
exam results to give them reports of what needs to be done before
the final exams if students are to achieve their goals.

5. We provide electronic revision resources for teachers to help
students prepare for the exams and fill in any gaps in their
understanding as revealed in the mock results. We make
these resources available on an App and on flash drives which
are circulated to schools by ward education officers. The
resources include all past paper questions and answers from
the past five years of exams, at primary, secondary and
advanced levels.

6. We provide funds for creating revision videos which are made
by ETETA with Tanzanian subject teacher experts in Morogoro
region. These videos are stored on YouTube.

7. So the technological equipment and software we find most
helpful for teachers, school leaders and education officers to
use are:
 Their own smartphones
 Laptop and projectors for use in school halls.
 Powerpoint for presentations.
 Excel for analysis and student tracking.
 YouTube for accessing video presentations.
 Online sites for bespoke Maths revision resources.