• Senegalese elementary school educates with solar powered interactive whiteboard

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    Kids studying at the Senegalese elementary school of Ecole Sinthiou Mbadane1 will have a unique classroom environment. The usual blackboard and chalk have been tossed away for a more sophisticated interactive whiteboard, powered by solar energy! The area is cut of electricity grids and the whiteboard, by CyberSmart will just kick-start a long journey of providing better educational facilities to rural areas around the globe, powered by renewable energy like the sun. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) helped
    CyberSmart with a grant for this initiative in Senegal that will help widen the scope of the Senegalese national curriculum, particularly in subjects like math, science, and social studies.



    An initiative like this could be the best way to help educate the 1.5 billion people around the globe who are cut off from electricity grids and proper forms of education.
    [PRNewswire]

    Posted in Topics:Gadgets and Tech, Tags: , on February 11, 2011