Grants:Programs/Wikimedia Community Fund/Rapid Fund/Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom for Secondary School Teachers in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria. (ID: 22114412)
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Applicant Details[edit]
- Please provide your main Wikimedia Username.
Oby Ezeilo
- Please provide the Usernames of people related to this proposal.
Onyinyeonuoha
- Organization
N/A
- Are you a member of any Wikimedia affiliate or group, including informal groups like Wiki Fan Clubs, emerging language communities, not recognized Wikimedia groups etc.? Please list them all.
I am a member of the Igbo Wikimedia user group; Wikimedia Nigeria User group; Wiki for senior citizens network; Education user group; Igbo Wiki Fan Club, Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka; Igbo wiki commons; Igbo Lib Hub, and Wiki vibrance.
Grant Proposal[edit]
- M. Please state the title of your proposal. This will also be the Meta-Wiki page title.
Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom for Secondary School Teachers in Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria.
- Q. Indicate if it is a local, international, or regional proposal and if it involves several countries? (optional)
Local
- Q2. If you have answered regional or international, please write the country names and any other information that is useful for understanding your proposal.
- R. If you would like, please share any websites or social media accounts that your group or organization has.
- 1. What is the change that you are trying to bring about and why is this important.
Teachers in most secondary schools in Nigeria, especially secondary schools that are owned by the different state governments, do not have online resources to improve their knowledge and information. They only rely on information they could gather from textbooks. unfortunately, many of these schools do not have school library. The libraries that a few government schools have are so poorly equipped. Many of them have not received new books in the last 10 years. This is because of poor budgeting from the state governments and local governments that run these schools. There is also the issue of corruption in these governments. This leave teachers relying or whatever information they have from their school days when they studied education. I have been a teacher in government secondary schools from 1992 to date so I have personally been confronted with this challenge. I have also been faced with this challenge while carrying out my doctorate in the education programme at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka. This challenge has also been identified by some secondary schools in Anambra state including the Denis Memorial Grammar School, Onitsha. This is why they requested for assistance from Wikipedia for this training. Teachers need to have access to other sources of information, especially online materials.
- 2. Describe your main approaches or strategies to achieve these changes and why you think they will be effective.
The best way to enable these teachers to have access to additional and better information, beyond the old textbooks in some of their libraries, is to facilitate their access to free online resources. The online resources have to be free because the government that is able to buy textbooks for schools will also not be ready to pay for any subscription-based resources. Wikipedia is obviously the best free OER. Interestingly, WMF has a dedicated education programme for secondary school teachers called reading Wikipedia in the Classroom. This is a professional training program designed for teachers to learn how to integrate Wikipedia as a learning tool in their classrooms. The curriculum of this program is aligned with UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy framework and it connects different approaches and methodologies used in the classroom to leverage the power of Wikipedia as a learning tool. It will provide them with an alternative format for learning new things outside the regular school curriculum while improving Wikipedia. The program also addresses teachers' research skills, such as the ability to make sense of information, the ability to verify, evaluate, and sift reliable information from information chaos, and the ability to use the information to create new knowledge. We intend to organize this programme for teachers in Onitsha in Anambra State. We will organize this programme in collaboration with Denis Memorial Grammar School (DMGS)l Onitsha who has requested this programme. Participants will be teachers in secondary schools in Abuja. DMGS has offered to host the programme. Teachers in different secondary schools in Onitsha will be reached through the association of schools. As a certified trainer of Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Programme, I will be leading this training. I will be supported by other experienced Wikipedians. .
- 3. What are the activities you will be developing and delivering as part of these approaches or strategies?
We will announce in Onitsha and its environs that WMF will be organising the Reading in the Classroom Programme for secondary school teachers and invite teachers to fill out the online application form. We will issue an expression of interest form which will be circulated in different platforms that are popular in Onitsha, Anambra State including Facebook, WhatsApp etc. This will be a google form. We will also write to the leadership of some secondary schools in Onitsha informing them of the proposed training. Denis Memorial Grammar School Onitsha has expressed interest to collaborate with us by hosting the training. We expect to receive up to 100 applications. From the application forms, we will choose the 50 best applicants bearing in mind criteria like teachers with laptop, smartphone; that have an idea of how to browse the internet etc. We will prepare and situate the training manual in line with the standard curriculum and training documents as prepared for the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Programme by the Wiki Education Team. There will be 4 physical sessions during the training and several online sessions. It will commence with an opening ceremony where key government and other officials in the education sector will be invited to make short statements. The training will involve -teaching teachers how to use Wikipedia as a learning tool in the classroom, and improve their media and information Literacy skills as approved by the UNESCO media framework and Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Programme. There will also be assignments. The assignments will be assessed and marked by the Wiki Education team headed by Mrs Mellissa Gwadalupe. When the assignments of the participants have the assessed, the successful ones will be issued certificates in accordance with the programme of the education team. The 4th physical session will be the graduation and closing ceremony. The programme will be carried out with close supervision of the Wiki Education Team.
- 4. Are your activities part of a Wikimedia movement campaign or event? If so, please select the relevant campaign below. If so, please select all the relevant campaigns from the list below. If "other", please state which.
Not applicable
- 5. Do you have the team that is needed to implement this proposal?
The team includes; 1 certified trainer of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom Program in Nigeria and 2 experienced co-facilitators who are Wikimedias. They are: Mrs Oby Ezeilo Oby Ezeilo: She is a Certified Trainer of the Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom program. She is also a co-founder of Igbo Wikimedia User Group; a founding member of Wiki for Senior Citizens Network and a project facilitator for Wiki Vibrance. Facilitated over 30 programs ranging from Ig Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikiicommons, and Movement Strategy Saloon. She will be the Project lead for this project and also work as the communication expert. She will be paid for her services. User: Onyinyeonuoha member EduWiki Conference Commi, Founder- Wiki Loves Names. Documentation Specialist- EduWiki Outreach Collaborators Network. Former Coordinator for Igbo Wikimedians User Group Anambra Hub. Facilitated over 15 programs which include training, edit a thon, photo walks etc on Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wiktonary, WikiQuotes, and Wiki Commons. Onyinye has also received several certificates from Wikipedia including the Education Green House initiative. She will be the co-trainer and also double as a data analyst. She will be paid for her services
- 6. Please state if your proposal aims to work to bridge any of the identified CONTENT knowledge gaps (Knowledge Inequity)? Select up to THREE that most apply to your work.
Geography
- 6.1 In a few sentences, explain how your work is specifically addressing this content gap (or Knowledge inequity) to ensure a greater representation of knowledge.
The programme will take place in Onitsha which is in the South Eastern part of Nigeria. Nigeria is a big country with over 200 million people with 6 geo-political zones. Earlier Reading Wikipedia in Classroom programmes in Nigeria took place in Lagos (South West Zone), Kwara and Abuja (North Central Zone). This programme will allow teachers in another geographical part of Nigeria to benefit.
- 7. Please state if your proposal includes any of these areas or THEMATIC focus. Select up to THREE that most apply to your work and explain the rationale for identifying these themes.
Education, Open Technology
- 8. Will your work focus on involving participants from any underrepresented communities?
Geographic
- 9. Who are the target participants and from which community? How will you engage participants before and during the activities? How will you follow up with participants after the activities?
The target participants are teachers who are teaching in secondary schools in Onitsha Anambra Strate, Nigeria. we will reach them by advertising an invitation for interested teachers to fill an application form which will be a google form. The advert will be both on social media and on the radio. We will also write to schools within Onitsha notifying them of this training and urging them to inform their teachers to participate. 50 teachers will be selected from all applicants. we will create a whatsapp group and Facebook page. All participants will be members. After the programme, we will be encouraging participants to be using Wikipedia in the classroom and address any challenge they have. we will also be sharing the experiences of different participants in the forum which will encourage each of them
- 10. In what ways are you actively seeking to contribute towards creating a safer, supportive, more equitable environment for participants?
All participants will be encouraged to respect each other and appreciate each other's differences. Ffrom the first meeting in the programme, participants will be informed and educated on the friendly space policy of Wikipedia and informed that the policy must be kept. Participants will be teachers who are ordinarily used to respect for each other and for students as is required in the profession.
- 11. Please tell us about how you have let your Wikimedia communities know about the planned activities and this proposal. Use this space to describe the processes you carried out to make the community more involved in planning this proposal. Please link the on-wiki community discussion(s) around the proposals.
I have informed and discussed with members of the Wikimedia User group Nigerian. I have largely informed wikipedians based in Onitsha Anambra state and the Wiki Fan Club which is based in Awka Anambra State. The link to my announcement is here https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_User_Group_Nigeria#Community_Notification
- 12. Are you aware of other Rapid Fund proposals in your local group, community, or region that are being submitted and that align with your proposed project?
No
If yes:
- 12.1 Did you explore the possibility of doing a joint proposal with other leaders in your group?
- N/A
- 12.2 How will this joint proposal allow you to have better results?
- N/A
- 13. Will you be working with other external, non-Wikimedia partners to implement this proposal? Required.
No
- 13.1 Please describe these partnerships and what motivates the potential partner to be part of the proposal and how they add value to your work.
- 14. In what ways do you think your proposal most contributes to the Movement Strategy 2030 recommendations. Select a maximum of THREE options that most apply.
Increase the Sustainability of Our Movement, Identify Topics for Impact, Innovate in Free Knowledge
Learning, Sharing, and Evaluation[edit]
- 15. What do you hope to learn from your work in this fund proposal?
We will find out whether participants agree that Reading Wikipedia in the Classroom is relevant to global educational issues and helps them to think critically. We will also want to know their impression of the module, quality of training material, timing etc. To achieve these, we will conduct a post-event survey. From my experience in my past project, I out that most teachers knew about Wikipedia but believed that it was written by the owners live every other encyclopedia. However, some teachers teach in schools that do not have free data, do not have laptops, and may find it difficult to access Wikipedia
- 16. Based on these learning questions, what is the information or data you need to collect to answer these questions? Please register this information (as metric description) in the following spaces provided.
| Main Open Metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia as OER | Whether most of the teachers who will participate in the training will be convinced that Wikipedia is the best OER in the teaching and Learning Environment | 35 |
| Assessment of materials used in the training | how many teachers believed that the materials used in the training like the modules etc were effective | 35 |
| Use of Wikipedia as a learning | the number of teachers that accept that the use of Wikipedia as a Learning tool will improve teaching and Learning | 35 |
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- 17. Core quantitative metrics.
| Core metrics | Description | Target |
|---|---|---|
| Number of participants | Participants include teachers, resource persons, and school and Education Authorities | 60 |
| Number of editors | Selected Teachers that will participate in the training | 50 |
| Number of organizers | Lead trainer and Co-trainer who will double as communication expect and Data Analyst | 2 |
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- 17.1 If for some reason your proposal will not measure these core metrics please provide an explanation.
It will be measured by the number of teachers that completed the three modules, the number of teachers that completed their lesson plan using Wikipedia, and approved by the Wikimedia Education Team and are Certified. I expect that 40 teachers will complete the program and be certified.
- 18. What tools would you use to measure each metric selected? Please refer to the guide for a list of tools. You can also write that you are not sure and need support.
The performance of teachers' participation will be assessed by the Wikimedia Education Team. their assignments, lesson plans, etc will be marked and those who pass will be issued a certificate as certified trainers. my target is that at least 40 teachers will successfully complete the training and be certified.
Financial Proposal[edit]
- 19. & 19.1 What is the amount you are requesting from Wikimedia Foundation? Please provide this amount in your local currency.
2183528.2 NGN
- 19.2 What is this amount in US Currency (to the best of your knowledge)?
4746 USD
- 20. Please upload your budget for this proposal or indicate the link to it.
- We/I have read the Application Privacy Statement, WMF Friendly Space Policy and Universal Code of Conduct.
Yes
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