Children Should Be Exposed To Technology in School – Education Expert

Special education director, Lagos ministry of education, Adeyemi Adebayo says children should be taught to use technology in schools.

Adebayo, who was the keynote speaker at a webinar on education and nation-building to mark the launch of the Association of Nigerian Educational Psychologists (ANEP), said COVID-19 pandemic revealed Nigeria’s failure to invest in education which led to the shutting down of schools without viable alternatives for learning.

According to him: “The pandemic has shown Nigeria’s failure to invest in education. Although our children used online virtual classes, the question is — did  we prepare our teachers for that? Are our children aware that such will happen? did we notice that our teachers were grappling such that they couldn’t even figure out how to help the children,”

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“People should understand the need for technology, it is inevitable, it’s something we cannot negotiate with. Our children should learn the use of technology right from the school and the school should also prepare them for that.

“As one psychologist said, if children don’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. So it is high time teachers understood the psychology of this generation and adopt the methodology that works in terms of 21st-century learning.”