The future success of the African continent lies in its ability to hone the skills, talents, and ambitions of its ever-growing youth population through quality education.
Yet teachers face many challenges that hinder successful curriculum implementation – and the COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated these issues. It is worthwhile to note however that the pandemic didn’t exactly change the future; it merely accelerated its inevitable arrival.
A recent HP-commissioned survey of 800 educators in South Africa and Nigeria shows most teachers believe that acquiring new skills will help them across every dimension of teaching. They believe such skills will help with classroom instruction and management, ICT integration, and lesson and curriculum preparation.
Providing time for teachers to engage with changing practices and to connect with other educators to share ideas and experiences is essential in supporting the uptake of digital literacy in African classrooms.Critical and entrepreneurial thinking should be both the aim and the basis for teaching and learning – especially at a primary school level.
But these technologies can also be better leveraged to improve communication , monitor and evaluate learner progress, digitize learning material, and distribute homework online.