giraffe games mid-review presentation

20.2.2012 Mid-Review by Students: Aslihan Oguz, Ketan Devadiga, Saara-Maria Kauppi, Jarkko Kurronen & Tutors: Eva Kagiri, Kiarii Ngua

Designing an Educational Game for Kenyan Children

Aslihan Oguz, Ketan Devadiga, Saara-Maria Kauppi, Jarkko Kurronen& Eva Kagiri, Kiarii Ngua

Giraffe Game


What does learning mean to you?


Project Overview


The Objectives• Making learning fun

• Encouraging applied learning

• Raising consciousness of real-life issues

• Engage families and communities


Kenya - Educational SystemEducational Challences in Kenya

• Learning by memorizing

• Competition for applying for universities causes selfishness

• Only 4 teachers / school

• 5% of children are not enrolled in school

• Lack of personalization

• Real world, “ethno-mathematics” problems easier for kids


Kenya - Educational System


The Stakeholders


Benchmarking


Existing Solutions - DigitalImproving Literacy in Rural India -Project 2009

• English lesson cell phone games modeled after traditional village games

Word-picture matching game (vocabulary)

Rearrange the words to form sentence (grammar)


Existing Solutions - DigitalPlaypower

• Educational games for $10 TV-computer platform affordable for children in developing countries


Existing Solutions - SystemsMobile School

• Belgian NGO that provides mobile schools in order to reach and educate street children all over the world


Existing Solutions - SystemsActivity Based Learning (ABL)• Unicef funded project in Chennai, India• Self-learning according to aptitude and skills


Existing Solutions - TraditionalEducational Card- & Board Games• Plenty of existing ones• Fun, social interaction• Inexpensive to manufacture


Approach


Initial Ideas


Timeline & Methods


What did you find most interesting in your childhood games?

• Where? Classroom, outside, at home..?

• Individual or group games?

• Tools?

• With or without teachers?

• With or without parents?

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Thank you!

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