Camp Rumi Technology Literacy Group

Educating 'Rumi's of the Information Age
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About Us
 
Camp Rumi Technology Literacy Group, Inc. is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) literacy camps in primary schools in order to enhance the quality and accessibility of primary education in Turkey.
 

Mission

Operating in an environment of creativity, uncompromising integrity and mutual respect for all participants, volunteers and affiliates without regard to race, sex, color or religion, we strive to improve youth education using information technology in the following ways:

- Generate enthusiasm for technology, encouraging curiosity and independent learning
- Encourage lasting university mentor relationships between university student volunteers and at-risk youth
- Concurrently engage primary schoolteachers in the use of technology for professional development and new pedagogical paradigms
- Develop feedback-driven lesson plans and programs
- Establish easily replicated program model to facilitate expansion to new primary schools



Our Story
 
Named for world-wide known greatest thinker Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi- our foundation year 2007 has been designated as the ‘Year of Rumi' by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)- Camp Rumi was established to educate the new “Rumi”s of the information era and ultimately to achieve the objective of self-sustaining poverty reduction through empowering local communities with information technology enhanced learning.

At all levels, Camp Rumi is run by university student volunteers who bring tremendous energy, creativity, and dedication to our common objective – to reduce poverty through technology-based knowledge empowerment.

Central to Camp Rumi, too, is a team of education experts who search for effective teaching strategies and methodologies that integrate the use of freely downloadable open-source educational software. So, we practice what we preach!
 
Although we are community-centric, Camp Rumi adopts a broader vision of tackling the so-called digital divide problem internationally through collaborative grassroots efforts: shared curriculum development, frequent communication among site coordinators to discuss effective teaching strategies and methodologies.