“We want kids to love learning, and ultimately become lifelong learners.” – Nisha Ligon
Η παροχή εκπαίδευσης για κάθε παιδί, ακόμα και σε περιοχές όπου η έκθεση περιορίζεται, είναι απαραίτητη για την επιτυχία των μελλοντικών γενεών. Αρκετές από αυτές τις περιορισμένες περιοχές υπάρχουν στην Αφρική. Υπάρχουν οργανώσεις αξιοποιώντας τη σύγχρονη τεχνολογία μέσα μαζικής ενημέρωσης και τη δύναμη της ψυχαγωγίας για να φτάσουν τα παιδιά με τη διασκέδαση, παιδί με επίκεντρο, εντοπισμένη edutainment που θα δεσμεύει, διδάσκει παιδεία για τα παιδιά όλων των ηλικιών, και καλύτερα να τους προετοιμάζει για το σχολείο.
Nisha Ligon is a screenwriter, κινηματογραφιστής, and the co-founder and CEO of Ubongo, one of the leading producers of kids’ edutainment in Africa. The organization reaches millions of families across Africa via TV, radio, and mobile phones with its edutainment content that helps kids learn. Ubongo was founded in 2013 by a group of animators, εκπαιδευτικούς, φορείς, and filmmakers who were interested in closing the learning gap in Tanzania and providing kids meaningful learning experiences at low-cost and massive scale through the technologies households were already using. Σήμερα, two TV shows, Akili and Me και Παιδιά, reach over 11.2 million households across 9 countries in Africa. Akili and Me is designed for kids from Ages 3 to 6-years old. The content is focused on pre-literacy, αριθμητικής, and social-emotional learning. Ubongo Kids targets kids from ages 8 to 14-years old. This show focuses on teaching STEM and 21st-century life skills such as digital literacy, γνώση οικονομικών, and critical thinking. Η Σφαιρική Αναζήτηση για Εκπαίδευση invited Nisha Ligon to find out more.
“We’re really focused on impact, and we’re constantly doing focus groups and surveys to measure that and make sure we’re reaching and engaging kids and parents.” – Nisha Ligon
Nisha, you provide an edutainment model that provides effective, localized learning to African families. How would you describe the main takeaways for the kids from your programming?
We want kids to love learning and ultimately become lifelong learners. We want children to know that they are creative, to develop a growth mindset; rather than fixed thinking, they should be critical thinkers, as well as humane and empathetic people. There’s a lot of science, μηχανική, and mathematical topics we cover in Ubongo Kids. Ωστόσο,, the things I mentioned before are what’s really important and will help children become the problem solvers Africa needs.
When it comes to the Akili and Me ηλικιακή ομάδα, there are a number of developmental milestones that we try to help facilitate through our show. So we focus on pre-literacy, pre-numeracy, motor skills, social-emotional learning, and some critical behavioral habits like hygiene and nutrition.
How would you describe the shows’ greatest achievements so far?
There are many things we can celebrate like winning the Next Billion EdTech or some of the funding we’ve gotten. Ωστόσο,, what matters most to us is impact. We’re really focused on impact, and we’re constantly doing focus groups and surveys to measure that and make sure we’re reaching and engaging kids and parents. We conducted an impact evaluation in 2016 in partnership with the University of Maryland School of Public Health, and the results were published in 2017. The study showed that children who watched Akili and Me in Tanzania experienced 12% higher school readiness than kids who had watched other cartoons.
Εξάλλου, we recently worked with Acumen’s Lean Data initiative to survey parents in East Africa about the impact of our shows on their kids. From the preliminary results, 63% of parents in Tanzania say that our programs have positively impacted their lives, και 99% say they’ve positively impacted their children’s lives.
We also did another study, which found that 3/4 of urban kids and 1/2 of rural kids can name our characters. That’s really exciting, since it shows that even kids who don’t have a lot of access to TV are finding out about the characters and brand in other ways!
“I would say that language adaptation is both our greatest challenge and greatest opportunity.” – Nisha Ligon
I know language adaptation has been a challenge for your programming. Tell us a little more about how you deal with that.
I would say that language adaptation is both our greatest challenge and greatest opportunity.
Εχουμε 440 million kids in Africa, and UNICEF estimates that 2 δισεκατομμύριο more will be born over the next 3 decades! This is a continent of kids, and there is huge room for growth! But they speak over 1000 different languages.
We’ll never cover them all, but we do have an opportunity to bring quality, διασκέδαση, edutainment in languages and places where kid’s TV programs have never existed before. That’s critical for achieving learning outcomes, and it also takes engagement to a whole different level when you put something in the local language. It’s magical to see how kids light up and connect when they see cartoons in their own language for the first time ever!
But every language has different nuances, and a lot of them aren’t systematized. We were recently struggling to adapt one of our color songs to a language where yellow and orange aren’t differentiated and are the same word!
We’re still developing our processes and growing our capacity to adapt content while maintaining educational quality — to ensure that songs still have catchy rhythm and rhyme — and really making the content sound and feel local.
Our other big challenge is in deciding what not to do. There are so many different things we can do, but we have to prioritize and make sure we really invest in the most important, high impact opportunities, and do those things really well, so we can bring transformative content to all of those 440 million kids in Africa!
“This is a continent of kids, and there is huge room for growth! But they speak over 1000 different languages.” – Nisha Ligon
Looking ahead – Can you share some of the new content coming soon from Ubongo?
We are currently working on Season 5 του Ubongo Kids, Εποχή 3 του Akili and Me, and also piloting a new pan-African show. We are also developing more content for caregivers and will be launching a caregiver kit where parents and guardians can access videos, worksheets, and learning resources to use at home with their children to support their development and cognitive stimulation.
Thank you Nisha.
C.M.Rubin and Nisha Ligon
Σας ευχαριστούμε για μας 800 συν παγκόσμια συνεισφέροντες, δάσκαλοι, επιχειρηματίες, ερευνητές, οι ηγέτες των επιχειρήσεων, οι μαθητές και οι ηγέτες της σκέψης από κάθε τομέα για την ανταλλαγή προοπτικές σας για το μέλλον της μάθησης με Η Σφαιρική Αναζήτηση για Εκπαίδευση κάθε μήνα.
C. M. Rubin (Cathy) Είναι ο ιδρυτής της CMRubinWorld, μια ηλεκτρονική εκδοτική εταιρεία επικεντρώθηκε στο μέλλον της παγκόσμιας μάθησης και συν-ιδρυτής του πλανήτη στην τάξη. Είναι συγγραφέας τριών βιβλίων best-seller και δύο ευρέως διαβάσει σε απευθείας σύνδεση σειρά. Rubin έλαβε 3 Upton Sinclair βραβεία για το «The Σφαιρική Αναζήτηση για την Παιδεία». Η σειρά που υποστηρίζει για όλους τους μαθητές ξεκίνησε το 2010 και συγκεντρώνει διακεκριμένους ηγέτες σκέψης από όλο τον κόσμο για να διερευνήσει τα βασικά ζητήματα της εκπαίδευσης που αντιμετωπίζουν οι χώρες.
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