BLOSSOMS module “Can Earthquakes be Predicted” by Zach Adam of Teachers Without Borders, translated by Yvon Lamour (Cambridge Public School District) and Michel DeGraff (MIT), and with Kreyòl voiceover by Yvon Lamour. MIT Tech TV
Jacky Lumarque points Symposium participants at this article as the starting point for his presentation. Ten days after the earthquake, Quisqueya had organized a volunteer system. First the medical students set up in a tent on the parking lot. They were supervised initially by their teachers, then by a team of Slovak doctors who arrived [...]
“I believe the role of the university is to create opportunity, pure and simple. We create opportunity for young people, for cities, and nations ... And people everywhere need opportunity. ” Charles M. Vest
Jean-Marie Théodat provides new perspectives on basic and higher education programs in Haiti. One of the major challenges our generation is facing in Haiti is the lack of education and human resources in the rebuilding of a sustainable society. Traditionally Haiti has been counting on foreign countries for the definition of its higher education framework. [...]
As a proof-of-concept, OCW collaborated with Université Caraïbe, Mr. Menès Dejoie (Haitian Educators League for Progress), and Professors Alfred Noël (UMass-Boston) and Michel DeGraff (MIT) to produce a translated caption file for a lecture in MIT's 18.01 Single Variable Calculus. We have embedded OCW's site here--you can also view the full site.
We asked participants from Haiti to describe: What projects would you like to help sustain or help initiate and develop through your participation in the symposium and through subsequent partnerships between MIT and Haitian academic institutions? A number of the participants responded: Patrick Attié and Marlene Sam FOKAL Sergey Galliard Anton Lévy Janin Jadotte Lyonel [...]
Lyonel Sanon describes the details of the joint creation of an e-learning platform for Haitian universities. The Faculty of Applied Linguistics (FLA) would like to work with U.S. universities to create e-learning platforms. Such platforms could be used for the following: Distance learning Online courses and course materials Workshops for the creation of educational technology [...]
FOKAL’s library program aims at assisting partner community libraries all over Haiti with funding and training in order to make them as effective as possible for their respective communities. The training for those libraries aims at strengthening and improving the skills of the libraries' clerks, technicians and directors. Since 2003, a training program was set [...]
MIT Prof. Michel DeGraff describes his hopes for MIT’s involvement in helping to rebuild the educational infrastructure in Haiti. Most Haitians I know have a precise and often tragic story about what they were doing when the earthquake hit on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, at 4:53PM. In my case the story is not [...]
For the last 2 years, Educatech has provided for its classrooms what we call a "numeric room" that includes interactive boards, projectors, a laptop for the teacher, and twenty-five to thirty Intel Classmate PCs for students. Most schools added a router and an internet connection--although the bandwidth was only 64kbps, but this is what they [...]
