Abstract:
Learning by doing is a bit of a mantra at the Gashora Girls Academy of Science and Technology (GGAST), an all-girls High School located in the village of Gashora in Rwand...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Learning by doing is a bit of a mantra at the Gashora Girls Academy of Science and Technology (GGAST), an all-girls High School located in the village of Gashora in Rwanda. No doubt theory and formal education are of vital importance in learning science and technology, but building, fabricating, assembling, writing or coding, integrate the best of theoretical and experiential learning. Doing so provides students with the type of satisfaction that rewards them with something of substantial value upon completion of their scholarly effort. Through experience, we have found that this is perhaps one of the most ideal ways to relate to our students. For this exercise in the form of a collaborative effort, formally a service-learning course at University of Pennsylvania (Penn), the two co-authors have been engaged with the GGAST and Penn students during the last five years. Spending a few weeks each summer in residence in Gashora and maintaining year-round collaboration via online meetings and shared resources, we used as a guide and foundation the ideas expressed in a previous publication [1], with our audience was Penn students.
Published in: 2019 IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC)
Date of Conference: 16-16 March 2019
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 24 October 2019
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Print on Demand(PoD) ISSN: 2330-331X