Enhancing Primary Education with Mobile Phone Applications for Teachers and Pupils: Findings and Results from Senegal Presented at UNESCO mLearning Week 2014
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Enhancing Primary Education with Mobile Phone Applications for Teachers and Pupils: Findings and Results from Senegal Presented at UNESCO mLearning Week 2014
1. Enhancing Primary Education with Mobile
Phone Applications for Teachers and
Pupils: Findings and Results from Senegal
Agbessi Constant Tchona, Childfund Senegal
Landry Ahouansou and Mame Ibrahima Bakhoum,
SenMobile, Senegal
Chun Hei Cheung, USA
UNESCO Mobile
Week #mlw2014
@UNESCOICTs
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8. Little individual attention for each student
Different learning styles are not accounted for
Few active learning activities
Lack of libraries and hard to get access to books
Late introduction to ICT
Teacher training to increase and improve
Lack of local content (in French and local
languages)
Problems AddressedProblems Addressed
19. Use of Apps in the ClassroomUse of Apps in the Classroom
20. EvaluationEvaluation
Are the children
learning?
• Pre-test
• Use of the apps
• Post-test (conducted
on the same day)
Perception of the
tool
• Interviews with
directors, supervisors,
teachers, and parents
Observations
21. EvaluationEvaluation
• Reading improved by 40%*
• Writing improved by 45%*
• Different styles to use the apps:
• Some students work on paper and enter the results
• Some students just use the apps
• Some students read questions aloud
• Pupils finished a large number of exercises without
pausing
* Between the pre-and post-test. Further study is needed to
verify these results
22. Positive points
Good start
Completed many things in 4 months
To improve
Emphasize teachers’ training and coaching
Find ways to have teachers contribute content
Add more content
Build an ecosystem
ResultsResults