By Ademola Orunbon
The Ogun State Government, in collaboration with National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has trained some teachers across the state on digital literacy for improved, effective and efficient impartation of knowledge.
Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, while declaring open a five-day training at Akin Ogunpola Model College, Akinale, said the government was committed to ensuring that education was digitalised, to meet international best practices.
Represented by the Director, Department of Science and Technology, Mr. Sunkanmi Ogunpola, according to the Ministry’s Press Officer, Mr. Samuel Ogungbesan, charged participants to be attentive and ask questions where necessary, saying facilitators were experts and professionals in their fields.
“Don’t forget, our objective is to train our learners so that they will be marketable; hence the need for this training for teachers that will flow down to them”, he said.
Speaking, the Director-General and Chief Executive Officer, NITDA, Mr. Kashifu Abdullahi, represented by the Administrative Officer, Digital Literacy and Capacity Building in the agency, Mr. Divine Buhari, expressed satisfaction with the level of preparedness and government’s support to ensure the training yielded desired results, urging participants to be focused, to acquire new digital knowledge.
On his part, the Chief Facilitator, Mr. Joshua Umaru, highlighted areas of concentration as browsing, searching, filtering data information and digital content, finding data, information, content through a simple search in a digital environment, evaluating data, information and digital content, among others.
In their separate responses, two of the participants, Mrs. Aderonke Olatunji-Osho, from Remo Secondary School Sagamu (Junior) and Mr. Bashir Obasanjo, from Ajoda High School Senior Ayetoro, commended government for the initiative, promising to pass down whatever knowledge acquired to their colleagues and learners.