The Deputy Chief Zonal School Quality Assurance for Eastern Zone, Dr.
Emmanuel Laisser (left) hands over a certificate of recognition to
Zainabu Kibiki who is a Board Member at Kilakala Secondary School in
Morogoro for successfully completing the African Digital Schools
Initiative (ADSI) training organized by Global e-schools and Communities
Initiative (GESCI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education,
Science and Technology for Morogoro selected government schools.
By The Citizen Reporter
Morogoro — Twenty
public run secondary schools in Morogoro Region have been successfully
integrated into ICT thanks to the African Digital Schools Initiative
(ADSI) which was initiated in 2017.
This was confirmed
during the just ended ADSI training and awards ceremony held in Morogoro
and was organised by the Global e-Schools and Communities Initiative
(GESCI) in collaboration with the Ministry of Education, Science and
Technology.
The training
brought together different stakeholders including school heads, board
representatives, school based coordinators and representatives from the
Ministry of education who deliberated on how best to further the ADSI
program in terms of implementation even after it comes to an end in
April 2021.
Speaking during the
closing ceremony, the Deputy Chief Zonal School Quality Assurance for
Eastern Zone, Dr. Emmanuel Laisser, lauded the ADSI project and called
on the schools to embrace the ICT skills acquired through the program.
"You should be able
to share this with schools and teachers who were not part of this
project so that the knowledge can spread because this will greatly
simplify the teachers work in terms of preparation and presentation as
it involves the use of modern equipment such as computers, projectors
where the teachers apply various programs online to prepare their
materials before lessons," he said.
He also called on
beneficiaries to take good care of the equipment that was handed over to
them through the ADSO project and use them appropriately given the fact
that some teachers are still technology shy and only use them when they
know there is an inspection going on.
The Morogoro
Regional Academic Officer, Tullo Fundi stressed the government will
ensure it continues from where ADSI will end to ensure that the benefits
spread to other schools and teachers as well.
"It is sadly coming
to an end in April but you who have been part of the program are a true
testimony of its benefits and we as government will ensure we do
everything possible to sustain it in various ways," he added.
The Project
Coordinator, Ramadhani Matimbwa said the program has greatly helped in
turning secondary schools into digital schools of excellence and is
designed specifically to build student 21st century skills, including in
Science and Technology, English and Mathematics (STEM) subjects and
teachers' practice using ICT in a way that is responsive to the needs of
knowledge economies and the work place.
He said by the end
of the program, they will have reached over 400 teachers and 40
secondary schools in Morogoro and Pwani Regions.
Some of the
beneficiaries, Athumai Kapate from Morogoro Secondary School and Jane
Mtindya from Dakawa Secondary School admitted that the program has
transformed teachers and students and made work easy.
"For a teacher like
me who is living with a disability it is even much easier, I just go
online, prepare my lessons and can present through the projector even
while seated compared to the past when we had to use chalk which was
quite tedious," said Mr. Kapate.
The ADSI program is also under implementation in Kenya and Cote d'Ivoire and is fully funded by Mastercard Foundation, Canada.
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