{"id":2128,"date":"2017-05-04T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2017-05-05T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T15:03:07","slug":"kayamandi-township","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/kayamandi-township\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Design Thinking to Create High-Quality Education in Kayamandi Township"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This May, a team of volunteers will train educators in South Africa how to integrate technology and design-thinking into their classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The volunteers from Autodesk, Adobe, and Ketiv are partnering with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.team4tech.org\/\">Team4Tech<\/a> to support the Greater Stellenbosch Development Trust (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsdt.org.za\/greater-stellenbosch-development-trust\/\">GSDT<\/a>), Makupula Secondary School, and the Vision Afrika Community Center in Kayamandi, a township outside of Stellenbosch, South Africa.\u00a0 Kayamandi\u2019s 35,000 residents largely live in informal housing and have historically had low economic and educational opportunities.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/i2.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2124\"><br \/>\n<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/Picture1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2129\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2129\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1379\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/Picture1.png 1379w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/Picture1-300x83.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/Picture1-768x212.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/Picture1-1024x282.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1379px) 100vw, 1379px\" \/><\/a>Left: A workshop with Autodesk volunteers and Makupula educators<br \/>\nCenter:\u00a0Award ceremony with Makupula and Vision Afrika educators<br \/>\nRight:\u00a0Students learning Tinkercad at the Vision Afrika Community Center<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The educators in the Kayamandi Township are deeply committed to the future of their students, schools, and community. They invest countless time and energy into their classrooms each day, and into their own professional development. In the two years since Team4Tech and Autodesk began volunteering in Kayamandi, their teachers have learned how to integrate technology, 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century teaching methods, and design-thinking into their classrooms. They are eager to learn more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p>\u201cWe fight for our learners\u2019 attention,\u201d says an Accounting and Economics teacher at Makupula, \u201cThey are discouraged by the textbooks. With this experience, we can speak a different language\u2014a language they understand.\u201d After bringing instructional videos into the classroom, she also said, \u201cMy learners are soooo proud of me!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this third project, volunteers will focus on deepening technology skills and introducing key STEM learning tools. Creating a modern computer lab at Makupula will encourage collaborative and project-based learning. Integrating making and design into the Vision Afrika curriculum will fuel creative thinking and exposure to STEM careers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is fantastic to be able to send Autodesk employees back to Kayamandi alongside other volunteers from Adobe and Ketiv. Our employees grow personally and professionally through the project, and they get to work directly with educators and organizations using technology and design to make a positive impact in their community,\u201d said Kellan Hays, the employee impact manager at Autodesk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/i4.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2126\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2126\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/i4-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/i4-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/i4-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/i4-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><em>An Autodesk volunteer teaches educators and a representative from the Western Cape Education Department how to use a 3D Printer<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">That is just the start to what these driven Kayamandi educators and creative volunteers will be able to learn and create together during the project. Long-term, Team4Tech and GSDT will continue to build capacity in Kayamandi to provide high-quality education throughout the community.<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/i5.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2127\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2127\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/i5-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/i5-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/i5-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/i5-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/05\/i5.png 1429w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><em>Tech Day participants and volunteers with a beautiful mountain view at Vision Afrika<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Follow the story at #autodesklife and #adobelife<\/p>\n<p>Read about past Autodesk and Team4Tech pro bono projects <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/?s=south+africa\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This May, a team of volunteers will train educators in South Africa how to integrate technology and design-thinking into their classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>The volunteers from Autodesk, Adobe, and Ketiv are partnering with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.team4tech.org\/\">Team4Tech<\/a> to support the Greater Stellenbosch Development Trust (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gsdt.org.za\/greater-stellenbosch-development-trust\/\">GSDT<\/a>), Makupula Secondary School,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":2122,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128,38],"tags":[537,539,538],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-sustainability","tag-autodesklife","tag-south-africa","tag-team4tech"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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