Hi there, o
ver the next few weeks, I’ll be sharing my thoughts on the Education Technology (EdTech) gap within the Nigerian Education system (primary and secondary). EdTech is not just about reformatting books, training manuals or the individual technologies themselves. It is about applying digital technology to deliver a new form of learning architecture. EdTech has become critical to the classroom of the future which reminds me of John Dewey’s quote, “If we teach today as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.”
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Gone are the days of library visits to photocopy a few pages from an Encyclopedia for a school project. Thanks to a generation that has grown up with technology at their fingertips, school children and even kindergartners now live in a world where education has changed and the internet is their primary source of entertainment and information.