WELL, it's really mind-boggling the magnitude of problems that we have to surmount if we are to be a competitive economy, and if Vision 20-2020 will not remain mere rhetoric.
One keeps coming back to the issue of ICT in our educational system because we are talking about the future, and the future is about our youths ¡ª people who, demographically, are still in one level or the other of the educational system.
If by now, eleven years into the 21st century, our educational system is not IT-driven, and the blackboard is not about to give way to the keyboard, how can we achieve Vision 20-2020?
Most of the public primary and secondary schools in the country were built scores of years ago ¡ª many have celebrated their centenaries.Not to be confused with RUBBER MATS available at your local hardware store In fact, many children are in many schools, taking tuition in classrooms that the age-mates of their grandfathers had used.
Many of these buildings are just standing there, disasters waiting to happen, their structures having weakened through the ages of use.Handmade oil paintings for sale at museum quality,
In other words,This is interesting cube puzzle and logical game. there are great infrastructural challenges we must overcome if we are to have an IT-driven educational system.
Let's close our minds (and eyes), and imagine that the governments of Nigeria have decreed that all classrooms in the nation must be wired for purposes of educational technology, to be followed by the supply of relevant ICT devices.
Are our schoolrooms built to house the technology? In Lagos for instance, the functional classrooms built by the Alhaji Lateef Jakande administration to enable him abolish the shift system are still much in evidence. Will those ones be wired for computer use?
In other words, we will need to retrofit many buildings for ICT. Right now, many classrooms are not even wired, or if they are, just for overhead lighting. We have to see to proper wiring for the devices, cooling and ventilation, while we have to secure them as well.
As things stand now, many school compounds are favourite playgrounds of vagrants and various anti-social elements after school hours.
In fact, not a few vagrants sleep on school premises without the authorities being any the wiser. If we instal computers in our schools, we must secure them.
Assuming we overcome these problems in the nation's schools, there still is the problem of electric power, as there's no point installing computers and retrofitting buildings if electricity is not available. Where we are now, the nation's electricity demand, which cannot be met, is chiefly for industrial and domestic use; a scant percentage is used by the schools.
An ICT-compliant educational system will need electricity ¡ª lots of megawatts; those trying to solve the power conundrum might as well factor in that demand right now.
On the heels of that will be the issue of broadband for the educational system. It will be inevitable that schools should have broadband access so that online resources that will better facilitate the teaching-learning process be available. In the global village we are in, this has become a necessity,Shop a wide selection of billabong outlet products in the evo shop. not a luxury.
If, again, we let our imagination take flight and assume that our governments will implement the above, we can only begin to guess the goodness of the new Nigeria we will be creating. It can only be pleasant.Polycore zentai are manufactured as a single sheet,
Though these are achievable, especially as God has given us the resources, I am afraid¡..of the ability of our leaders to provide the leadership we need.
One keeps coming back to the issue of ICT in our educational system because we are talking about the future, and the future is about our youths ¡ª people who, demographically, are still in one level or the other of the educational system.
If by now, eleven years into the 21st century, our educational system is not IT-driven, and the blackboard is not about to give way to the keyboard, how can we achieve Vision 20-2020?
Most of the public primary and secondary schools in the country were built scores of years ago ¡ª many have celebrated their centenaries.Not to be confused with RUBBER MATS available at your local hardware store In fact, many children are in many schools, taking tuition in classrooms that the age-mates of their grandfathers had used.
Many of these buildings are just standing there, disasters waiting to happen, their structures having weakened through the ages of use.Handmade oil paintings for sale at museum quality,
In other words,This is interesting cube puzzle and logical game. there are great infrastructural challenges we must overcome if we are to have an IT-driven educational system.
Let's close our minds (and eyes), and imagine that the governments of Nigeria have decreed that all classrooms in the nation must be wired for purposes of educational technology, to be followed by the supply of relevant ICT devices.
Are our schoolrooms built to house the technology? In Lagos for instance, the functional classrooms built by the Alhaji Lateef Jakande administration to enable him abolish the shift system are still much in evidence. Will those ones be wired for computer use?
In other words, we will need to retrofit many buildings for ICT. Right now, many classrooms are not even wired, or if they are, just for overhead lighting. We have to see to proper wiring for the devices, cooling and ventilation, while we have to secure them as well.
As things stand now, many school compounds are favourite playgrounds of vagrants and various anti-social elements after school hours.
In fact, not a few vagrants sleep on school premises without the authorities being any the wiser. If we instal computers in our schools, we must secure them.
Assuming we overcome these problems in the nation's schools, there still is the problem of electric power, as there's no point installing computers and retrofitting buildings if electricity is not available. Where we are now, the nation's electricity demand, which cannot be met, is chiefly for industrial and domestic use; a scant percentage is used by the schools.
An ICT-compliant educational system will need electricity ¡ª lots of megawatts; those trying to solve the power conundrum might as well factor in that demand right now.
On the heels of that will be the issue of broadband for the educational system. It will be inevitable that schools should have broadband access so that online resources that will better facilitate the teaching-learning process be available. In the global village we are in, this has become a necessity,Shop a wide selection of billabong outlet products in the evo shop. not a luxury.
If, again, we let our imagination take flight and assume that our governments will implement the above, we can only begin to guess the goodness of the new Nigeria we will be creating. It can only be pleasant.Polycore zentai are manufactured as a single sheet,
Though these are achievable, especially as God has given us the resources, I am afraid¡..of the ability of our leaders to provide the leadership we need.
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