The impact of technology on education, especially rural schools in Zimbabwe

RURAL EDUCATION IN ZIMBABWE

It's really hard to teach kids computers skills when you have no electricity in your classrooms, and this is what has been experienced by most teachers in rural ereas.
Children are growing up in a world where social media, mobile technology and online communities are fundamental to the way that they communicate, learn and develop. In recent years the speed, flexibility and affordability of rapidly evolving digital technology has further strengthened the digital divide between the haves and have-nots and led to the failure of millions of young people in developing countries to join the digital world.
 Children in the rural areas cannot use the computer due to the fact that most rural schools do not have electricity and besides that, the computers are not even there. Due to these problems, most children in Zimbabwe have developed an apathy towards education, hence underage marriage is reportedly common in rural areas. Rape and sexual abuse against children are also reported.

Hopelessness is written all over the children's faces and their sorry story is in stark contrast to the estimated 94% literacy rate touted in Zanu PF’s election manifesto last year and which Zimbabwe prides herself with.

Without sufficient investment of resources to equip the schools, Mwenezi schoolchildren are at risk of losing their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire a basic education.
On a larger scale, their society will be starved of the human potential it needs to thrive in the long run. Unless government ropes in the international community to step up its investment in education there, and elsewhere in the countryside such as in Binga in the Zambezi Valley; Uzumba, Maramba, Pfungwe; part of Gokwe; Msampakaruma in Kariba; Chipinge and Chiredzi to name, but a few areas, the prospects are slim that the country will recover even with the change of administration or the end of the economic crisis currently prevailing.
These poor schools should be government and an international community priority.
  
children at rural schools