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.

Zawadi Students Learn Documents - Primary School Lead Educator Irene Pepit Inspires Students to Create Their Own Documents

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.

Zawadi Students Learn Documents

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Every Thursday, we all gather around on Zoom to share stories from the classroom. Every educator writes a story to share from their week about student achievement.

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Document Editing

Scratch is block-based programming built for kids.&nbsp;This week at Zawadi Yetu academy, we decided with the fifth graders that they are going to create their own project. The previous weeks they have been practicing combining blocks of code and so they were only making basic animationsThis week they started on their projects. Everyone in the class is really working hard to make sure that before the end of the term he/she must have created his/her game in scratch. First, i encourage them to use different sprites and now they are in the level of making their own sounds and inserting them in their gameI look forward to encouraging them to discover new things day by day for their game and presentable look. They are very happy that at the end each one of them will have his/her game.

Making Their Own Games in Zawadi Yetu | TechLit Africa

This week in Zawadi Yetu academy, students spend 30 minutes every day building their own video game in Scratch. By the end of the week, they will have completed a complete game.

Scratch

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Making Their Own Games in Zawadi Yetu

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Zawadi Students Learn Documents

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Recent Posts from Irene Pepit

Zawadi Students Learn Documents

Making Their Own Games in Zawadi Yetu

Irene Pepit
School Lead Educator