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Team from Pakistan Won My Mobile My Life Case Competition

Posted on | August 31, 2010 | No Comments

A team of MKFC students from Pakistan has won My Mobile My Life case competition in Tornio, Finland. My Mobile My life event took place in the peaceful surroundings of Tornio, northern part of Finland. MKFC and Kemi-Tornio University of Applied Sciences Finland organized this event to support and encourage the new developments in mobile technologies. Many researchers and practitioners came together to find out new, simple, innovative mobile solution and authentic practices that have positive impacts on human life. More than 70 participants from 12 different nationalities joined this event. MKFC students Qaiser Maqbool Khan, Babar Maqbool Khan and Ayesha Babar has won My Mobile My Life case competition, their area of mobile solution development was health. They created a mHealth model to spread the awareness among people about basic health, cleanliness and hygiene issues through mobile phones together with web technologies. Their model has been considered to be best on the basis of efficiency, high accessibility, ease of use, sustainability, and cost effectiveness. The pilot study was implemented in the suburbs of Multan, Pakistan.

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Traffic Safety in Pakistan Teacher Training

Posted on | August 16, 2010 | No Comments

In the Teacher Training assignment about Social Entrepreneurship Babar Maqbool Khan, Faisal Public School focused on traffic safety.

,,The best way to engage learners is by injecting fun into learning. SO, I decided for the awareness of traffic rules to learners, we and give them one task. For the junior group, they will clean the roads. Primary group will make zebra crossing in school ground. The middle group of learners will make sign charts. Secondary group of learners will make traffic rules pamphlet, which they distribute them among the people.”

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mLearning an Inclusive Approach

Posted on | August 9, 2010 | No Comments

The IPID 5th Annual Conference

Alamdar Khan, MKFC team member will present his research about mobile learning in IPID 5th Annual Conference, Barcelona on 9th September 2010 . The research is mainly focused on the theme that how mobile technologies can be used in learning to enhance the collaboration among peers and between teacher-students interaction particularly with reference to developing countries’ context. MKFC Stockholm College has many educational development projects in Africa and Asia including Pakistan. The research is underway on the MKFC teacher training Pakistan’s students that how MKFC can use mobile technologies more extensively alongwith its unique End-to-End™ eLearning model to make learning inclusive for all.

The main purpose of the conference is twofold

  • To let postgraduate students present short papers about their research in a supportive environment where they can gain positive feedback from other participants;
  • To provide an opportunity to discuss key themes of interest to ICT4D postgraduates. The conference organisers would be pleased to hear from potential participants about the themes they would like to have discussed

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Entrepreneurship in School

Posted on | August 5, 2010 | No Comments

In assignment 6 MKFC Stockholm college teacher training students were suppose to work on social entrepreneurship and entrepreneurship in class room. Hajra Bibi, currently working as primary school teacher at Beaconhouse School Kharian, Pakistan has shown her inspiring work that how she thinks about social entrepreneurship in school.

Entrepreneurship is an individual’s ability to turn ideas into action, to be innovative, take the initiative, take risks, plan and manage projects with a view to achieving objectives.

As attitudes and cultural references take shape at an early age, education can play a major part in successfully addressing the entrepreneurial challenge. Education should therefore develop awareness of entrepreneurship from an early age. Introducing young people to entrepreneurship develops their initiative and helps them to be more creative and self-confident in whatever they undertake and to act in a socially responsible way. However, the benefits of entrepreneurship education are not limited to more start-ups. Entrepreneurship is a skill that is also useful in both personal and social aspects of everyday life.

Teachers are great sources of ideas for learning activities that provide experience in entrepreneurial skills…and often they don’t even know they are doing so. Any teacher in the secondary schools can help students understand the opportunities of our entrepreneurial economy by infusing entrepreneurship-related activities in their regular course of study. Such experiences may change the vision of their future for many of our youth.

Farwa Ahmed and Zainab Shahid with Lunch

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Children are usually observed to be quite reluctant about their eating habits. They mostly avoid fruits and vegetables and love to have the junk food. For creating awareness among students about the importance of healthy food for the body and mind we (teachers in Beaconhouse Kharian) planned to have a healthy food day in the school. Students were asked to bring fruits or any sort of dairy products in their lunch. (In this picture Farwa Ahmed and Zainab Shahid of class II Yellow are having there lunch.) Read more

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LEARNER’S FEEDBACK ABOUT MKFC EDUCATION

Posted on | July 27, 2010 | 1 Comment

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