<p>Lucy is our internet skills and touchtyping specialist.</p>

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<h2>Digital Literacy Required</h2><p>Last week, a fourth grader named Fortune in Mogotio Primary school, was struggling to open his Social account because he did not know how to spell his name. I wrote his name down on a piece of paper and placed it on his desk so that he could refer to it while typing. I returned to Mogotio this week to review their Internet Skills introduction. Fortune has really improved.</p><h2>Breakthrough Skills</h2><p>Now, Fortune he can even log into his account on his own. Today, he really amazed me as he drew six different designs on Inkscape vectors and saved all of them successfully during their lessons. Teaching them how to save their work has been a hard task, especially for Grade 4, but Fortune has really motivated the students.</p>

Grade 4 Student in Mogotio Primary School Overcomes Literacy Challenges to Become Leader in Digital Literacy Class

<p>Fortune, a student at Mogotio Primary has overcome literacy challenges and is motivating his entire class now. While most students struggle to save their work into their local, offline internet account, Fortune is saving many Inkscape designs every class.</p>

Digital Literacy in Mogotio Primary

Mogotio Primary

<p>Nelly Cheboi is a celebrated social entrepreneur, <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/nelly-cheboi/?sh=179de9a85764" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Forbes 30 under 30</a> honoree, and<a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/07/14/world/education-technology-recycling-kenya-poverty-cnnheroes/index.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> CNN Hero</a>. After growing up in rural Kenya and lifting her family out of poverty, she focused on her community.</p>

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<p>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.</p>

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<p>Denis is our school lead educator in Mogotio Primary School.</p>

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<h2>Digital Skills in Primary School</h2><blockquote>Today I found a student leader to help with class.</blockquote><p>Today's story came from this girl called Tracy, a student at Mogotio Primary school at Mogotio Hub. Because I am the school lead at Mogotio Primary, I usually arrange the kids and show them how to log in. But today I found a student leader to help.</p><h2>Tracy Leads Her Class</h2><blockquote>Tracey helped me arrange kids and taught them so much!</blockquote><p>Tracy is a clever girl and also a leader. She gave me an easy time to arrange the kids and also showed them how to log into the computer. She showed other kids how to play games, and even how to log out at the end of class.</p><h2>Leadership Starts Early</h2><blockquote>Tracey became a leader even outside of computer class.</blockquote><p>After class, Tracy lead her class back to their classroom. The whole experience made my very happy and excited, because it shows that leadership really can start from an early age.</p>

Clever Leader Tracy Leads Her Primary School Class To Digital Skills | Arranging Students, Logging In, Playing Games, Logging Out | Leadership Starts Young

<p>In Mogotio Primary, a clever girl named Tracy lead her whole class. In today's story, I will share that leadership starts from an early age.</p>

Young Leadership at Mogotio Primary School

Young Leadership at Mogotio Primary

<h2>New School Term, New Students</h2><p>Because Mogotio Primary was one of our first primary schools, most of the students know the basics of using a computer. They know how to log in and log out, open and close programs and switch between running programs. They even know all the functions of the mouse.</p><blockquote>Today we had 7 newcomers to computer class.</blockquote><p>So when we have newcomers to computer class, they need special accommodation for them to understand like the rest of the students. Today, we had 7 newcomers to computer class, and as the Mogotio Primary school lead, my job was to catch them up.</p><h2>Special Accommodation Pays Off</h2><p>From our 7 newcomers to computer class, 4 students came from Grade 4 South and 3 from grade 4 North. They were really out of their depth. They didn't know anything about computers.</p><blockquote>Vincent was behind, but after taking time to teach him the basics, he is now okay.</blockquote><p>What I did, I took time to teach each of them. There is this student called Vincent who didn't know anything but after taking time to show him the basics, now he is like the rest of the students.</p>

7 New Students Learn Computer Basics With Denis Marega | Newcomers At Mogotio Primary Need Special Accommodation | Digital Skills Required - Logging In/Out, Opening/Closing Apps, Mouse Movement

<p>Because Mogotio Primary was one of our first primary schools, most of the students know the basics of using a computer. So when we have newcomers to computer class, they need special accommodation for them to understand like the rest of the students.</p>

First Computer Class in Grade 4

<h2>Graphics Editing in Primary School</h2><blockquote>Before specialists came to our school, students were eager to start design practice.</blockquote><p>As a school lead, my job is to help students practice specialties, but not teach specialties myself. But when TechLit began teaching a graphic design specialty, my students and I were too eager to start practicing to wait.</p><p>So today I showed some classes how to open and use Inkscape, the graphics editor we have in our computer classes. I was happy with the results.</p><h2>Creativity and Self-Teaching</h2><blockquote>Faith and Prince taught themselves new skills, and became even more creative!</blockquote><p>Two kids, Faith Jepkorir and Prince Kimutai, managed to do very well with Inkscape. They made shaped, colored the shapes, wrote the shapes' names and also wrote their full names.</p><p>I'm happy with the lessons because Faith and Prince showed themselves how to do things. They discovered that they can write their name and color their name with different colors.</p>

Two Primary School Students Gain Creativity By Self-Teaching In TechLit Computer Class | Graphic Design Lessons With Inkscape Leads To Digital Skills

<p>Today we started practicing graphics editing early. Two students surprised me with their creativity and ability to discover new skills in Inkscape, our graphics editor.</p>

Creativity and Self-Teaching with Graphics Editing | TechLit Africa

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Creativity and Self-Teaching with Graphics Editing

<p>Esther Wangui, a Grade 3 West student in&nbsp;Mogotio Primary drew a beautiful Christmas tree using various shapes and painted it using different colours in Inkscape.</p><p>She drew a triangle and painted it green, she placed a star on top of the triangle and painted it yellow then used circles of different colours as a decoration.</p><p>She asked for assistance in typing the words in capital letters and I showed her an example. She then wrote her name and the words "Christmas Tree" by herself.</p>

Grade 3 Mogotio Primary Student Esther Wangui Creates Digital Art with Inkscape in TechLit Digital Literacy Classes

<p>A Grade 3 student, Esther Wangui, was very creative this week. She drew a Christmas tree, using all the tools she knew of in Inkscape.</p>

Inkscape in Grade 3 | TechLit Africa

Inkscape in Grade 3

<p>Tyler Cinnamon is a American programmer and entrepreneur. He started TechLit Africa with Nelly Cheboi in 2018 to disrupt poverty with used IT devices.</p>

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<p>Mogotio Primary is a public primary school in Mogotio, Kenya. TechLit classes in Mogotio Primary serve over 800 students.</p><h2>Mogotio Primary Sets an Example</h2><blockquote>Mogotio is a reference for other schools interested in computer classes.</blockquote><p>Mogotio Primary was the first public school to have TechLit classes. After installing at Mogotio, we used their lab a reference for other schools. To this day, Mogotio allows us to bring guests from schools in Kenya and from organizations abroad to see how classes work in their school.</p><h2>Nelly's Childhood School</h2><blockquote>Nelly's childhood teachers are so proud of what she's brought back to Mogotio.</blockquote><p>15 years ago, our CEO Nelly was a student at Mogotio Primary. The computer classroom we use today was originally Nelly's eighth grade classroom. In fact, some of her childhood teachers still work at the school. Her teachers so proud that she came back and transformed her old school.</p><p>Nelly often talks about her childhood. At that time, she didn't even have the word computer in her vocabulary. Now, students at her childhood school use computers in school every other day.</p><h2>Proud Students at Mogotio Primary</h2><blockquote>Nancy doesn't even want to be a private schooler anymore.</blockquote><p>It's very common in Kenya that parents make extreme sacrifices to choose private school over public school for their children. Naturally, students in public schools often wish they could also attend private schools.</p><p>One day, a fifth grader at Mogotio Primary school explained how she can't wait to show her friend, a private schooler, all the things she learns in TechLit classes. Nancy was so proud to be a Mogotio student that she doesn't even want to be a private schooler anymore.</p>

<p>Mogotio Primary was the first public school to have TechLit classes. To this day, it serves as an example for all the other primary schools in Kenya who want to see the TechLit program firsthand.</p>

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Digital Literacy in Mogotio Primary

Young Leadership at Mogotio Primary

First Computer Class in Grade 4

Creativity and Self-Teaching with Graphics Editing

Inkscape in Grade 3