0:00now what happens if classrooms are overcrowded and learning resources are
0:05limited
0:06well for many children in the slums of Kenya these conditions are
0:11a reality which leaves many discouraged from going to school
0:15but one project is tapping into the latest technologies to try to keep
0:19students in the classroom
0:21let's see what they are doing done
0:26the entire Canyon primary school curriculum just a few touches away
0:30that's the magic of the so-called EMU tablet
0:33which means at 22 in Swahili it's used in this classroom in a poor area Nairobi
0:39where most kids can't afford to go to well-equipped schools and drop address
0:43can be up to 40 percent
0:45students are at a disadvantage with just a few textbooks available
0:48but EMU has changed all that
0:52loom make now um
0:56lining up to pick on parts sum up lunch
0:59that since I am seen a team getting to know more about their own stems and
1:05branches
1:06the transplantation and electing is that dick button up large
1:09who get to land law using the tablets because the books
1:13as shallow you don't get more information yet
1:19me the challenge mostly
1:24the we had two stacked in voting dem
1:27teaching them how to use it is said billion up
1:31now they're used to it
1:33and leading it to that he spoke with it bedouins
1:37EMU was co designed by needy Mukherjee from Nairobi
1:40the idea came to her while working in slums schools like a materials led to
1:45promote innovation among the students she says
1:47but they were deeply interested in her tablets and phones
1:50whenever they'd see me interactive the gadgets that get very involved
1:54I started looking for videos and animations and songs that
1:58would help them learn things better and and I just saw what an impact would do
2:02rather than loading it up as a text book in pdf and
2:06we add animations videos and
2:09just the constant hand you know striving to
2:13make that learning process fun an interesting and engaging for the
2:17students
2:17be to allow low is the founder of the school
2:20he says EMU has improve national exam scores
2:24their own class is coming from 289
2:28going to three and they like the last exam we had no is 300
2:31and hopefully in the final examination they're going to add another points
2:36other planes on to what we have today
2:39as for the children they might be a little closer to fulfilling their dreams
2:48I want to become a lecture a pilot
2:52there are now one thousand students in Kenya using EMU tablets
2:56the ambitious goal for next year is 10,000 across the country