Impact Learning
Lack of qualified teachers, as well as ignorance on the part of parents in middle and low income areas often hinders children from these areas from reaching optimum development. Proposing a training program for teachers in cognitive development, social and emotional development, speech and language development, and fine motor skill development. This skill will also be made available to parents via access to a dedicated website. This solution will leverage on technology to improve children's education regardless of their race, ethnic or religious backgrounds.
Lack of qualified teachers remain one of the major problems facing early childhood education in Nigeria; the very few qualified teachers are expensive for many early education institutions to hire. Consequently, public educational institutions are manned by unqualified teachers, making most of the early childhood education institutions in Nigeria unable to provide decent care for children, and they provide mediocre education.
More that 70% of children under the age of 3 live in remote areas in Nigeria, and do not have access to quality early childhood education due to lack of qualified teachers. For this reason children with learning differences such as dyslexia are discriminated against, and described as having deformities, which they superstitiously ascribe spiritual interpretations to. Parents and care givers, are not able to nurture the children in a way that recognize and support learning differences, so that the children can reach their potentials.
Population of Nigeria is currently about 200 million. Over 70% of this population live in rural areas, and do not have access to quality early childhood education, leading to a situation where over 15 million children are out of school. This solution will leverage on technology to train teachers and parents on early childhood education. Our team will develop and App and deploy to public healthcare centers in rural areas to arose interest in critical thinking and cognitive reasoning right from the health centers at child birth.
Impact Learning intends on developing cognitive skills and non-cognitive skills in toddlers and preschoolers, such as cognitive development, social and emotional development, speech and language and fine motor skill development.
Train Montessori teachers to be able to understand the different learning methods of children and kick start their
- social skills
- Motor skills
- language skills
- reasoning and concept development
- reading and writing
Impact learning tends to create and enabling environment to train and educate teachers to apply classes in any surrounding the find themselves that develop these skills.
The software application developed would be introduced to primary health centers working in hand with Impact learning in conjunction with the Universal basic education and the The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization tools to enlighten the mother of the newly born infant on how to utilize the app to kick start the learning of cognitive skills from that tender age
Impact Learning also plans on promoting systematic advancement in early childhood education, most especially in middle and low-income population and under developed countries so as to decrease the amount of young adults who were not properly educated at the correct age and prepare them for the working population
- Enable parents and caregivers to support their children’s overall development
- Prepare children for primary school through exploration and early literacy skills
- Prototype
- New application of an existing technology
The unexpected alarming rate at which care takers of toddlers and preschoolers do not invest their interest, time, and resources into the development of critical learning and cognitive skills of them is gradually increasing by the moment. IMPACT LEARNING creates an easy and affordable platform whereby;
- Teachers -especially in low-income areas like Lagos in Nigeria which we are currently operating on- would be able to properly instill in these children, the basic knowledge develop the critical learning and cognitive skills they need to reach their full potential at an age in which more than 1 million new neural connections are formed every second.
- Parents and care takers would be well exposed to the fundamental knowledge on what to do in order to properly and effectively aid their children in developing cognitive skills.
§ IMPACT LEARNING has begun measures at hospitals which involve mothers who recently would have had a baby, to make it easier for them to enable that their children to reach their full potential. IMPACT LEARNING plans on producing an audio-visual device which is attractive to children and very hard to destroy by the recklessness of young children. This device would be able to provide the child with Audio-visuals such as; Nursery rhyme songs, stories, Alphabet and numeric songs, and the ability for them to express themselves in form of writing and drawing. This device is promisingly affordable.
PORTABLE PROJECTORS. In the hospital, it is used in order to, using audio-visuals, to teach mothers who recently would have had a baby, to make it easier for them to enable that their children to reach their full potential. In schools to train specific teachers who teach preschoolers and toddlers and how to properly and systematically enable them to develop cognitive skills.
§ WEBSITES AND APPS. IMPACT LEARNING is still currently working on a website. In the meantime, various websites and apps that are positively related to the development of the critical learning and cognitive skills in the children are used and or referred to. IMPACT LEARNING plans on producing an audio-visual device which is attractive to children and very hard to destroy by the recklessness of young children. This device would be able to provide the child with Audio-visuals such as; Nursery rhyme songs, stories, Alphabet and numeric songs, and the ability for them to express themselves in form of writing and drawing. This device is promisingly affordable.
- Artificial Intelligence
- Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality
IMPACT LEARNING highly and firmly believes that the reason why children are unable to reach their full potential all comes down to the inexperienced and unqualified teachers, the ignorance on the part of the parents, and the inability for the child to be properly fed with the right nutrients; which are all due to the fact that most of them are unable to afford or and are just ignorant. IMPACT LEARNING’s solution properly tackles these problems.
- Women & Girls
- Pregnant Women
- Children and Adolescents
- Infants
- Rural Residents
- Peri-Urban Residents
- Very Poor/Poor
- Low-Income
- Middle-Income
- Nigeria
- Benin
- Ghana
- South Africa
- Nigeria
- Benin
- Ghana
- South Africa
§ IMPACT LEARNING has currently served about a hundred and fifty persons.
§ In about a year, IMPACT LEARNING plans on serving up to three hundred people.
§ In five years, about over million persons are to be served.
§ To be able to reach out to more people and to finish up with the website in the next year
§ To find and recruit more members to join and to be able to expand.
§ Very minute capital and funding
§ Low number of members
§ No website
§ Work has begun intensively in order to finish up the website
§ Planning on getting funds from solve
- Nonprofit
Three people
We are best placed to deliver this solution because we have seen children who are unable to reach their full potential due to this problem and we were truly filled with compassion. We have intensely research and we came up with this solution in order to be of help to those children who do not have the privilege that children have in developed countries.
§ Whitesands School Lekki.
§ They provide us with some staff members
Donations and Personal income
IMPACT LEARNING believes that solve is a huge platform in which our solution can be known to the world. And funding
Using the prize from the ‘AI Innovations Prize’, IMPACT LEARNING plans on producing an audio-visual device which is attractive to children and very hard to destroy by the recklessness of young children. This device would be able to provide the child with Audio-visuals such as; Nursery rhyme songs, stories, Alphabet and numeric songs, and the ability for them to express themselves in form of writing and drawing. This device is promisingly affordable.
IMPACT LEARNING plans on using the ‘Innovation for Women Prize’ to further improve the quality of the lives of women of the children which IMPACT LEARNING plans to effect in the hospitals. Using the funds, IMPACT LEARNING would be able to provide the women with Free Mp4 players with ear phones so that women would be able to, without stress, obtain firsthand training for their children to reach their full potential.
And to provide a vast number of hospitals with projectors so as to display audio-visuals which aid in developing the cognitive skills in children, thereby reducing the work load of the mothers.
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