March 2017: MIT-Haiti Symposium
Prof. Michel Degraff speaks with Carel Pedre at Chokarella on the last MIT-Haiti Symposium, which took place March 27-28, 2017 at the Marriott Hotel in Port-au-Prince.
MIT and Haiti sign agreement to promote Kreyòl-language STEM education
Initiative designed to help Haitians gain technical education. Peter Dizikes, MIT News Office April 17, 2013 MIT and Haiti signed a new joint initiative today to promote Kreyòl-language education in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines, part of an effort to help Haitians learn in the language most of them speak at home. [...]
A Voices from Haiti
Michel DeGraff: Our Word is Our Bond A VoicesfromHaiti InnerView with Michel DeGraff, MIT Linguistics Professor Children Enjoying Learning (Photo: M. DeGraf Imagine a classroom in Haiti where students are forbidden to speak their mother tongue, Kreyòl. Instruction in most subject areas is in a foreign language: French. Students who lapse into Kreyòl are punished [...]
Minister Nesmy Manigat on the Future of Education and the MIT Haiti-Initiative
(Video is in Kreyòl) Minister Nesmy Manigat (Haiti's Ministry of National Education and Professional Formaiton) talks about the future of education in Haiti and the Ministry's collaboration with the MIT-Haiti Initiative. Kendy Vérilus (Verilux Films) conducted the interview on February 22, 2015.
STAR Ateliers an Ayiti
Photo Credit: Brandon Muramatsu Nan mwa Mas 29-30, 2012, Lourdes Aleman, MIT, présenté interactive ateliers sou STAR Biochem and STAR Genetics 25 patisipan yo de Ayisyen lekòl e inivèsite yo. Obje ktif lojisyèl “STAR” la ( “ Software Tools for Academics and Researchers ” ) se kreye yon pon ant ansèyman k ap fèt [...]
TEAL Ateliers an Ayiti
Nan mwa Mas 29-30, 2012, Peter Dourmashkin, MIT, présenté interactive ateliers sou Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) 38 patisipan yo de Ayisyen lekòl e inivèsite yo. Photo Credit: Michel DeGraff, Creative Commons Attribution License Sa fè 10 lane depi pwofesè fizik nan MIT devlope yon metòd ki rele “Teknoloji pou aprantisaj aktif” (“Technology Enabled [...]
New perspectives on basic and higher education programs
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. [...]