Police in germany have broken up a demonstration against the ongoing Turkish Military operation in the syrian region of frayne more than ten thousand people joined the demonstration in cologne where some protesters refused to remove banned flags they show the image of kurdish leader abdul. Soul from a for now coming in of aid to africa and how solar power can revolutionize remote schools. We understand the differences. And the similarities of cultures across the world so no matter how you take it aljazeera will bring in the news and Current Affairs that matter to. Aljazeera this is innovate africa a new series highlighting innovation and creativity across a continent that is on the rise. Today and innovate africa. Solar powered taking high tech teaching to South African townships. Might cost tablets to bring local content to primary schools in kenya a disruptive intervention is what were doing and they can manage to getting kids into coding using robots built from scratch. I has a hidden camera that is which. Is. One of the un is a to Millennium Development goals is to achieve universal primary education however with massive inequalities between rich and poor its a tough challenge in africa but innovative thinkers are coming up with fresh solutions. Nairobis i hop is a place designed for kenyan innovators as space where smart young thinkers can share their ideas. My re getting g. And navy mcconaughey mate here and soon began to explore their shared passion for technology and education they are the creators of kenyas most successful learning teaching it its called even stopped. So tell me about the party that youve started its called youre without much i know what does. So anymore in swahili means education and even with our play on that word. Evil is an integrated learning system designed specifically for kenyan students ok so this is the main dashboard page once the students log in they come here and these are the six main subjects in our curriculum and the up includes condensed content from prescribed textbooks brought to life with the inclusion of animations video clips pictures and music culture. Factory tours of the package all the specially designed low cost and easy to use tablets that also offer controlled access to the internet when you want to learn about to learn about kenya social studies notions like either so once we go and its just like a textbook these are all the chapters in the textbook and as you can see it really tries to visually highlight and one of the key things that will come up in exams as im now off teaches to figure out what you need to put in there yeah so our it is i guess what the whole pedagogy expands this is on our team and their teachers by profession and they know the curriculum they know whats going to come up in exams and one thing to focus on but then we also want to focus with leading textbook publishers that have seen kids read their textbooks and go through the fans and so they also know which areas to focus and my legs. Interest to vittie in the classroom is a new concept for kenyan children under the colonial and. Mission based Education System children were not encouraged to speak up or question the teacher when you got up to. Where you are promoting interactivity is an important part of the concept now tablets are available in libraries like this one children are encouraged to explore the technology and interactivity on their own. Have done a few really interesting studies where weve shown students animations explaining a complex concept other students have just read about it or seen pictures and deftly the students that have seen the animation a better able to really understand and evaluate what that you know subject or topic is teaching. Just show. Every two weeks were pushing new content every day one of the teachers is seeing something new that would enhance the naming opportunities. Like book whatever the book to tuck. Into explicitly its a moment to explain things but. I guess when we thought about Something Like vision twenty thirty and we realized that the people were going to be running the economy is in twenty thirty the people who are going to be reading and participating yesterday in the classrooms right now were seeing that children are schooling that theyre not naming the learning outcomes are not proving that children are understanding concepts and weve tried to launch whats called the one Laptop Per Child Program so the governments keen to see other disruptive interventions in the space and learn from it. I want to start a good. Social studies struggle for those so they are there actually made Digital Literacy mandatory for all teachers so thats an important step that the government saying that you know in order to be a teacher youve got. Know how to deal with a digital device some people wish a small school in the district was the perfect testing ground. Team chose the school to pilot the program so it would be new and then called that the it was all over the issue. So why did you choose that particular school as the home of your Pilot Project it was the school that was struggling and the kids could really have benefited from Education Technology and they were definitely understand academically and financially and i suppose it helped that they had more. Extremely passionate about education and seems to be passionate about technology as well book. Yeah hes a great person to run a school like that and run an initiative where a disruptive intervention is what were doing. Stuff that we were thinking about. Job. Yes i did it. But the momo. Very good in the beginning it was a challenge when we started because my children the students some of them even from their homes have never seen such kind of devices some of the motive in of phones but with the time they enjoy using the tablet enjoy using because of things like the deals photos so it makes it attractive to that youve been there wanted to get the. Video. You have got it thank you very much. Video it is easy to understand see children some children learn in different ways some like watching and when they watch the exact thing it becomes easier for them to understand everything the difference if youre looking at the results the kids are getting before using the tablet and using any move too often first of all their eggs. Results shot through the roof and we saw that they were doing so much better but also their social environmental consciousness the way that they looked at the world and the people around them we saw that that changed the first subject which we saw a very big improvement science initially when we started our main school was at fifty six to sixty one but. Today we are beyond seven attempts to reach eighty which is very good we are targeting ninety and this has really made the children feel like we can make it going to make. It. Across africa the combination of science and technology could be the formula for accelerating development. Is going up to meet an innovator believes that coding is set to become one of africas most important languages this is a place where we build robots have. Been naughty otherwise known as the buckmaster is a robot builder entrepreneur and teacher you know robot is actually everything that include games everything hes the founder and c. E. O. Of the Metro Institute of innovation and technology in ghana. And. How you and very well can you show me where the students are yeah and the lab currently. So generally the students come here during School Holidays and over weekends absolutely lives shows a lot of dedication on their part yes because usually during the day theyre busy with their schoolwork so we can see how we do the best time for them to come along and some new skill is your students my students some of the morning everyone then leads an extracurricular coding course for children of all ages in order to spread his passion for robotics we want to build a new generation of people the kids in this particular generation thing we just dont have to. Part for the smarts are the power and the smarts of the teachers i mean does the fact they are born into technology so this is a test that he also loves robotics he is just about fourteen years and getting ready to go to high school kindly and hes building a robot to solve a major problem robot to really blind explain what youre doing here i can see that theres some kind of relationship between what youre doing on the screen and its. Programming and the rewards that are when it sees an obstacle it stops it makes it to well blame people are working you can see so do need people to give a damn about and what kind of other robots would you like to build in future rewards from here when theres a fire somewhere people need to receive whats going to be sent into the fire goes there was a lot gets hit in it and so the. People in being the most so youre really interested in helping people its a move away from the traditional style of educating with a teacher standing in front of a classroom and children sitting in a desk and receiving information why do you think this works so well with our children i think when it comes to robotics one thing you know if youre going to excel in that field is youve got to have that. Fun. To see to imagine things that doesnt exist and try to make it happen just meant he loved games a lot even if he actually did write his own games. What kind of games do you like i like anything you know that it is not religion especially science so if i. Like do with gogu things its actually actual science youre making good progress. When were teaching the kids we just dont want them to learn and to vacuum we want them to see through life we want them to appreciate mathematics when you have a big problem you have to break it down into smaller chunks and when you start little by little bit it would also teach your kids math really ways and once you take that approach you know i believe that kids who really have. A mindset and you find that the programs what they are learning here the games that they have building programs that they are writing do you find that that inevitably has a knock on effect to their schoolwork that there are definitely definitely because you know when youre designing games for example you need to understand physics a concept principles of Motion Dynamics kinematics we are trying to use robotics i said to to inspire the study of science and. To relate clash fiores use in robots so that if were talking about a scientific principle newtons first law of motion so then we just memorize the facts we can actually use robots and we can demonstrate it for them to really see that look and the law really works. Most of the robots in bens lab a made from scratch when hes not teaching been. His team scoured the a cranky waste dumps for useful material. He believes that students should not be spending money on pots creating robots from the waste is one of the skills he promotes. Because actually an old concept. That has been discarded. A lot of component that we can use. That we can use for mechanical construction. And i guess i have components that we can use for some of our designs maybe the head of the robots you know we can actually use Something Like that. How. Do you guys busy with. Where they actually come from and one of our robots new book called yes this is called it was actually a spy saw villains for us so that in some time we really want to see whether that were going to be out playing these areas. Around some of that expression for us so that i has a hidden camera you know so you might not really you know whether its watching your back is watching. You see. Everything in. The camera its also intelligent enough to to actually see use to recognize faces so what happens is once a sees a phase you can actually i mean know you by your name testing. As you can see these where these are some of the projects made by brackets really. Then pays regular visits to schools across the country to drum up interest in coding and robotics so. Just coming in from point deep down where you want to be. The worst you really are i mean we have two thousand five hundred students across the country you know once you we expose them to their feel you know they always get a better idea of how to go about things so irrespective of what you want to do you pick a one of your politician in your head gets engaged in the baltics he sees technology and what this week later i will influence the kind of policy he makes we have to be able to you know at this with enough intelligence ok so that it doesnt move anyhow most of the time they lend him to forget but with this you know the want to actually varies out and its for feeling its rewarding they want to reward. The associated thank you thank you i believe strongly that it is time we really redefine. Education because the in done i know that we have been running independent and also stem from the british education that they put in place for us we really need radical change you know we should be able to identify peoples interests passion alley and then put them at the right place to give them their rice stuff and i think that the theyre going to excel so this is the kind of future we want all of you to be part of thank you. But i believe that now in the central every kid must court every kid must go just as you. Basic math issues you should know how to quote if people can now see the problem in an act and to solve the problem i think we will go a long way as a nation makes me think that like makes me feel i could thing there. Ahead you know and the world is moving in and i think the world is not witting for anybody. Part of garners ongoing commitment to include i. C. T. In the School Curriculum but computers and technology require power in parts of africa where Electricity Supply is limited new ways are being found to harness the continents most abundant resource a sub. Just a few kilometers outside of johannesburg is tembisa a township with thousands of black South Africans were forcibly relocated during the years of a party. Under the all white regime School Children were taught specifically structured curriculum designed to prepare them only for menial work and. It would bring equality to the South AfricanEducation System isnt working progress. Many schools still have limited resources and little or no access to actual cities but things are looking up tempe says as a new word which means promise and here at how much of a primary School Children a part of an exciting new era one which could connect them to a brighter future. This small container standing in the playground is a fully operational classroom and i. C. T. Hub. Designed by Amber Technologies its called edi education delivered intelligently and its entirely solar powered. And you know the area quite well you grew up im from yeah actually i grew up here or schooled here. Is a member of the amber team who has been working with the department of education to identify suitable test sites for the project so you know the area and the needs and what kind of environmental challenges the students face quite intimately definitely understanding the environment as well you can and you know be part of the Development Initiative with transforming and empowering our community so these are the solar panels like in most of the solar panels ok its taken years to get the project up and running and this classroom is the first of its kind in south africa and a big part of the whole concept behind the classroom is the fact that it is solar powered by interesting internet yammering or shine obviously in developing communities we have an interest city cutouts you know so this allows the school to be empowered whether theres electricity or not some of the lessons still continue in. The classroom maybe high tech but delivery and installation is simple and quick. Its fully operational as soon as the solar panels are installed mobility is one of the most important things in developing communities because you want to be able to say i want to build a classroom in a week so it can be transported here so you know it can be built so this particular one in the school took about half an hour to assemble. This is interesting so this would be an easy learning environment and show its quite different from the classrooms that you went to school in in tempe so when you were growing up here you know i remember back in the days i used to have a big back ahead of us in my tons of textbooks in their size books and like that you know now each and every child has got an ebook now you have an easy learning you have one book for all the lessons that youre. Quiet because i lived in play so the curriculum would be the same for each and every child in another school it would be this thing designed as an educational system that is approved by the government bake wittman allows you to be able to engage with the character level but you have been given so the teacher can communicate directly with the students and they can make communicating talking to each other for teamwork as well as. Waking to get. This unit is not only designed to provide a Learning Space but also to supply power for the rest of the school. It can be used like a generator in areas where there is little or no Electricity Supply. Today mississippi will be taking the first formal lesson in the classroom and im joining them ok john thank you thank you know im going by the. Public. Ok this is the one you just going to take us to the folks in joint have to. Do anything for you. Before we begin everything i want you guys to play taking in there are they. Just the fact ok im going to. Face the race. The if you get this is for you to write this out. Its ok because you know that the race that. I. Called it i think you would like to be that way is all i was going. Thank god this is closer to if you guys are going to watch. P. S. That is a link here. Because. That is a good idea oh they played a head. On that project maybe in its infancy but already has the full support of the department of education. The eighty units will hopefully provide the energy needed to drive a new era of learning for south africas children. Playing doesnt quite sound as good as it should but maybe i need to get one of these at home. On what do you think theres more. Today theres a mood of optimism among africas educators that you learning revolution is a reality here the future of education is in the same