SavSign BEMOAN LOW PACE OF ICT KNOWLEDGE IN THE NORTH

SavSign BEMOAN LOW PACE OF ICT KNOWLEDGE IN THE NORTH

A Team of ICT professionals calling itself Savannah Signatures (SavSign) has bemoaned the low pace of ITC knowledge among teachers in the three northern regions educational institutions.
In a presentation by the Head of ICT Department at St Charles Senior High School, Raphael Nucluse Adomey said the low pace of the ICT knowledge is due a situation where institutions like the Teacher Training Colleges using 1 to 2 semesters to teach teacher trainees ICT to come out to teach ICT in school.
Mr. Raphael Nucluse Adomey, who is also an ICT lecturer at the Bagabaga College of Education, said students are desperate to pass examination than to practically use the theory.
He noted that in this situation teachers do not take pupils through the necessary and detailing syllabus in the educational curriculum.
This was made known at a day Teachers’ Forum on ICT in Tamale.
The idea behind the forum was to give teachers and students in the Tamale Metropolis and its environs especially those who are teaching the opportunity to come together and share their thoughts, concerns, challenges, experiences and the way forward of using ICT.
He therefore indentified lack of any basic infrastructure, chronic shortage of trained teachers, student, teacher ratio among others in the country as the major challenges.
A Survey conducted by SavSign in the three regions of the north to access the state of ICT in schools three years after ICT has been introduced.
From responses given by the teachers it was realized that the highest number of computers that schools had was 6, followed by two and the rest one computer each.
It was also emerged that most students and teachers were not in agreement that ICT should be examinable for lack of equipped ICT facilities in schools.
John Stephen Agbenyo, Team Leader of SavSign called for immediate intervention of government and stakeholders to ensure the speedy recovery of ICT in the country.
He therefore advocate for the one laptop per a school child initiated by the previous government to be revamp and not renege on that dream which he strongly believe will enhance ICT knowledge among students in the country.