The Republic of Sudan

The Republic of Sudan

The republic of Sudan is located in the northeast of Africa. It is bordered by Egypt to the north, the red sea the northeast, Eretria and to the east, Kenya and Uganda to the southeast, the Republic of Congo and the Republic of central Africa to the southwest, Chad to the west and Libya to the northwest.

        It considered the largest country in Africa and Middle East.  Sudan has a total area of 2,505,800 sq km (967,500 sq mi). The population of Sudan is about 44,000,000 the most densely settled area is at the juncture of the White Nile and the Blue Nile. It is about a quarter of the size of the United States (2,505,800 sq km), making it the 10^th largest country in the world according to the World Fact book. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/su.htmlThe world's longest river, the river Nile, divides the country between east and west sides.

Sudan is considered one of the biggest multicultural countries in the world. This country consists of about 83 tribes which differ in everything in their cultures, and spite of all these differences they used to live safe and friendly life.

 I found this video very interesting about Sudanese multi-culture and I want to share it with you.  Sudan went through political conflict sice mid the last centuray which let the country to fall apart last january. http://www.peacedirect.org/peacebuilders/sudan/?gclid=CJmp_5TI9KcCFQtPgwodNi9Oag

Can Information and Communications Technology Contribute to Poverty Reduction

            Information and technology can help poor people by finding access to education, health, local government and international institutions and organizations which may help them to reduce the level of poverty.

            This article is about rural area in general and rural Indian in specific where people like farmers and nomads is being exploited by the companies and entrepreneurs. Some people tried to help these people by connecting them to the world around them by any means of technology in order to keep them updated about the prices of their productions and the local and international circumstances around them. The introduced different types of communication technology one of them for example, Dairy Information System Kiosk (DISK) software developed by the Centre for Electronic Governance at the Indian Institute of management, they introduce telemedicine which helped in diminish the cost of long travel. Also information communication technology helps people to communicate better and easy with their governments instead of travelling long distance to reach them. The very important thing for poor people is microfinance to reduce the poverty level, by introducing ICT poor people can have access to microfinance, Smart Cards and software systems providing loan tracking and financial management.       

           

            The only thing that I would like to know is the potential risks of this type of projects. In many cases the target person does not benefit from the final effort of the project.  Personally I grew up in a developing country and I worked with two developmental projects, in both of them the last beneficiary is not the rural person.

Being a Curriculum Specialist

Before I read this article my understanding for curriculum specialist is to develop curriculum according to a grade level or certificate level. But after a read it I found out it is more than that, being a curriculum specialist as the author said (are experienced educators who are trained on both the curriculum and the overall EbD (Engineering by Design)  program and are able to offer that insight, as well as classroom experiences, to teachers across the country.)

To be an engineer by design you have to be a qualified in understanding the principles of education, engineering, design and application.  Curriculum specialist is kind of leadership in the community and in other way we can consider them as a future maker because by the way or another they will shape our further by making our decision maker and affecting the learner`s minds and thinking, therefore this specialty became one of the most demanding one in today`s in our employer market


meade, shelli. (2010). Being a curriculum specialist. Technology and Engineering Teacher , 70(10), 36-8.

Digital Class Roon Pedagogy

After I read this article I found out that there no something ideal or something that we can conclude our findings from using technology in the classroom. The outcome of this innovation depends on many factors which include for example, the classroom size, the age of the learners, their level of education, and the skill which they learning at that time, and the other attractive methods around them and so on. For example in my situation in DLI many military students is  distracting their learning by using their tablet PC with things other than the target language in the classroom e.g. opening English language sites which will affect their time of learning, in the same time is very hard for the teachers to get them back in the track.

Other thing some learners are technology oriented, the other ones can get lost easily by using advance technology so we have to be very careful and to use the appropriate technology as learning tool with the appropriate learner.

http://fno.org/jan2011/modes.html
Jamie, McKenzie. "Digital Classroom Pedagogy 101." from now on 3/January 2011: 1. Web. 8 Mar 2011. <http://fno.org/jan2011/modes.html>.