Humberto Galo Romero. Cuando era niño, casi todas las noches le pedía a mi mamá que me leyera el cuento favorito del librito azul medio desvencijado que teníamos en la casa. Sin importar cuantas veces oyera la historia terminaba riéndome con la expresión burlesca que el tío conejo le gritaba al tío coyote; sin lugar a dudas, los personajes más representativos de la tradición narrativa popular nicaragüense.
UAM-CUSE students are part of the leading team for the Bibloko Project, which seeks to construct a culture of reading in Central America by creating a virtual collection of short stories for children between the ages of 4 to 12 years of age coming from regional authors’ donations. This collection will focus on improving reading and writing abilities in children, exercising mental skills through reading (i.e. synthesis, analysis, induction, deduction, critical thinking), reinforcing formative education through emphasizing ten transversal competencies (ethics, leadership, environment, love for learning, entrepreneurship, civics, personal hygiene, humor, family relations, creativity), and providing an educational tool for regional teachers. This virtual collection will be created in a webpage and as a download version, which will be donated to the one-computer-per-child program. Professors will receive training on classroom management and how to use Bibloko as a classroom tool. Children and professors in the area will directly benefit from this project since reading and writing are necessary tools for quality learning, higher retention rates, and higher intelligence indexes. Society as a whole will benefit from this project!
Do officers and the Bibloko team organized a party at Moods to raise funds for Bibloko!
