NELIS SCHOOLS

Empowering future generations

We’re Friends Right? Inside Children’s Technology at Nelis School. Nelis Schools is a co-education operating and providing education services to all classes of people in the community. Today’s society places high demands on the individual in terms of ability to acquire understanding of and knowledge about technology. Children are curious and want to understand and reflect on their environment.

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Overview

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Updated March 2025

Web presence

2025

Established

1

Countries

All students

Target group

If the growth of innovative ideas, skills and knowledge sharing effectively can be increased to facilitate children’s movement and full inclusion in the society. And our Nelis School practices at the global and country level with other partners to ensure children with enough technological guidelines and resource management as their future may hold.

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

This innovation focuses on children’s building and construction technology activities in education to contribute new knowledge about teachers’ and children’s volitions during activities play. Children’s practice with different tools and models enables them to develop their language at the same time they explore and discover phenomena in the world around them.

What does your innovation look like in practice?

Construction activities involve many subjects such as science, mathematics, language, technology and arts, and through construction children are exposed to the intersection of these areas, also typical in society and the environment. The approach is to study the learning objects and concepts visible in the children’s and teachers’ activities in technology. The purpose of the innovation is to contribute new knowledge about children’s volition at Nelis schools play to identify, build and improve technical constructions. Two different kinds of constructions are learned: houses and vehicles. The focus of the analysis is children’s use and handling of different materials, to understand their experiences of the materials’ characteristics in different constructions. The absence of resources, such as books, adequate classrooms and trained teachers, is the main barrier to children’s education in emergencies.

How has it been spreading?

There are countless stories and examples of how children around the lake zone are capturing opportunities to learn and enjoy themselves as the technology platforms shape their own paths into adulthood. Often without the help of adults, they are using technology platforms to do their homework; learn how to play the guitar or make their mother’s favourite soup; chat with friends; access educational and other information; bring positive change to their communities; find out what’s happening locally and globally; and design and write blogs to express their talents and opinions. These opportunities must be considered alongside the reality that they are not available to millions of children, as well the risks of life technologically and the potential impact of connectivity on children.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

If the growth of innovative ideas, skills and knowledge sharing effectively can be increased to facilitate children’s movement and full inclusion in the society. Then, we can foster the technology platforms for children in building strong relationships in the wider community and design and write blogs to express their talents and opinions.

Implementation steps

We’re Friends Right? Inside Children’s Technology at Nelis School.

Participant-observer approach to children innovation is both a theoretical and methodological departure from the more traditional innovation strategies. Our innovation implements a variety of approaches at the early primary level – deploying school-based volunteers to tutor children at home, setting up remedial classes for struggling students, training teachers in child-friendly pedagogy, and creating supportive after school learning programs.

We’re Friends Right? Inside Children’s Technology at Nelis School.

If, however, instead of the clinical interview of a single child, we examine the actual friendship interactions of children we discover a world of complex social relations. Children are active agents of their own socialization. In fact, kids creatively take information from the adult world to produce their own unique childhood culture. In this sense, children are always participating in and are part of two cultures adults and kids’ and these cultures are intricately interwoven.