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Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Folashade Adefisayo
A former Commissioner for Education in Lagos, Mrs Folashade Adefisayo, has called for the integration and adoption of technology in the school curriculum.
Adefisayo said this at the just concluded February edition of Edtech Mondays, an initiative organised by the Co-Creation Hub in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation’s Centre for Innovative Teaching and Learning in ICT.
The engagement session, titled, ‘Evaluating the impact of government policies in Edtech adoption in Nigeria,’ was moderated by the Programme Associate, Education, CCHUB, Abigail Anaza-Mark.
She also canvassed the need for stakeholders to give attention to upskilling teachers to guarantee a positive impact on the adoption of edtech in Nigeria’s education sector.
Adefisayo who is the Chief Executive Officer, of Leading Learning Limited, admitted that though there had been a rising case of edtech adoption in Nigeria, it had failed to impact learning outcomes.
“If the government is keen on adopting innovation in the education sector, it must give adequate attention to the teachers in training and rewards system. Innovation has to happen in the classroom; the teachers need to be superbly skilled. We need to look at how we treat the teachers and give the profession the glamour it deserves. We should also upskill teachers and teach them how to deploy resources to improve their crafts,” she said.
Adefisayo stated that despite the implementation of the 2019 National Policy of ICT in Education, which focused on research and infrastructure, the course of learning and teaching in schools had not improved.
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