Innovation Village Launches Science Discovery Centre
Today marks the official launch of the Science Discovery Centre, a vibrant and dynamic haven designed to ignite a passion for science among young, curious minds. Nestled within the STEM Centre under the EdTech Lab at Innovation Village, this revolutionary space promises to transform the educational landscape by making science engaging, interactive, and accessible […]
Schools reopen: One player’s view on Future of EdTech Innovations
Uganda reopened all learning institutions on Monday this week, bringing an end to the World’s longest school closure. With 15 million students stuck at home without learning opportunities for the last two years in a bid to curb the spread of the COVID-19 virus, some parents and teachers adopted the use of EdTech to ensure children continue to […]
The year 2021 through the lens of Future Lab
Future Lab, a department at The Innovation Village, is building the largest corporation innovation platform in East Africa. Future Lab identifies innovation as a key driver for growth to solve several socio-economic challenges by leveraging innovation and design thinking principles to support organizations’ growth, especially in times of rapid change. At the helm of this is to identify and […]
Desperate calls to reopen schools: Innovation needs to speed up
Long before the second wave of the pandemic, questions about the future of education dominated public discourse in Uganda. Shamim Nirere of Izere Education not only had the question lingering on her mind, she found some answers too. “The future of education will not be about the right answers. We already have google for that. […]
What Could the Future of Education for Uganda Look Like? An Invitation to Imagine
“We have spent only four months at school and within that time, all the things we would have spent a year studying, we have been able to cover in those four months. This has made me question the idea of spending a year in each class” These are the sentiments of a form 4, student […]
Homeschooling Made Easy
My first interaction with Edtech was a TED talk about a free learning service on YouTube called Khan Academy, about a decade ago. I clearly remember Bill Gates himself introducing the man of the night Mr. Salman Khan, who had started a YouTube channel to tutor his family on the other side of the American […]