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1. Enhancing Primary Education with Mobile
Phone Applications for Teachers and
Pupils: Findings and Results from Senegal
Agbessi Constant Tchona, Childfund Senegal
Landry Ahouansou and Mame Ibrahima Bakhoum,
SenMobile, Senegal
Chun Hei Cheung, USA
UNESCO Mobile
Week #mlw2014
@UNESCOICTs

8.  Little individual attention for each student
 Different learning styles are not accounted for
 Few active learning activities
 Lack of libraries and hard to get access to books
 Late introduction to ICT
 Teacher training to increase and improve
 Lack of local content (in French and local
languages)
Problems AddressedProblems Addressed

11. Java ME

12. Java ME

13.  1 school in the suburbs of Dakar
 80 pupils
 4 teachers + principal
 2 inspectors of the Ministry of Education in
Senegal
PilotPilot

14. Involvement of TeachersInvolvement of Teachers
Content

15. Observing Class ActivitiesObserving Class Activities

16. Meetings with ParentsMeetings with Parents
Distribut
e apps

17. Training for TeachersTraining for Teachers

18. Introduction of the AppsIntroduction of the Apps

19. Use of Apps in the ClassroomUse of Apps in the Classroom

20. EvaluationEvaluation
Are the children
learning?
• Pre-test
• Use of the apps
• Post-test (conducted
on the same day)
Perception of the
tool
• Interviews with
directors, supervisors,
teachers, and parents
Observations

21. EvaluationEvaluation
• Reading improved by 40%*
• Writing improved by 45%*
• Different styles to use the apps:
• Some students work on paper and enter the results
• Some students just use the apps
• Some students read questions aloud
• Pupils finished a large number of exercises without
pausing
* Between the pre-and post-test. Further study is needed to
verify these results

22.  Positive points
 Good start
 Completed many things in 4 months
 To improve
 Emphasize teachers’ training and coaching
 Find ways to have teachers contribute content
 Add more content
 Build an ecosystem
ResultsResults