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Bridging the technology gap in the Nigerian education system (I)

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.” Advertisement 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.

ScienceOnline 09 - Saturday 10:15am

By clock on January 24, 2009. Moving on with the morning, once again, I had to make a tough choice. OK, in this case, it wasn t that tough, really, as this was the session I was looking forward to all along: Science online - middle/high school perspective (or: how the Facebook generation does it ?) , led by Stacy Baker and her students. But this session has a long history.. We had a session on using blogs in science education at the 1st science blogging conference and it was quite an eye-opener. It was led by Adnaan Wasey and Lea Winerman (from the The Online PBS NewsHour at the time). Takehome message #1: a lot of science educational materials on the Web are not accurate (and need scientists to verify them). Takehome message #2: no matter how good a blog post is, it is useless to a teacher if it does not fit into the curriculum as designed by the state. The result of that discussion was the starting of the initiative to collect in one place all the posts that

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