Following the promotion of standard of education in the country, Government at all levels including the World Bank have been urged to come to the aid of public school students by providing them with more computers so they can have access to the system individually.
Education Specialist at UNICEF, Mr Babagana Aminu made this known while speaking with Correspondent Sherifat Oyediran during a visit to Ladoje Nursery and Primary school, Orile Agege, Lagos State.
Babagana Aminu said that the e-learning tablet was very essential to each child in school as one of the rights to enhancing their academic performance.
According to him, there were over two hundred and eighty thousand users of the learning tablet in Lagos and Ekiti states of which over fifty thousand of them are school teachers.
The Director of Education in Lagos State, Dr Afolabi Adejare said that e-learning tablet was introduced to ensure that children are familiar with learning through computer gadgets.
Dr Adejare said that the school learning method has changed with the introduction of e-learning tablet compared to those days.
“We believe that the way and manner children watch television and their exposure to internet is highly impressive as they learn music faster and easy so we applied the techniques in teaching them with computer because it makes them understand better than before. Different subjects have been solved with the use of computer system, student can pick up their tablet and learn after school at their convenience”. -Adejare
“The students can also go there to learn without the supervision of their teachers, they can pick up the tablet and listen to it at a repeated intervals to learn”.
While noting that not all school children have access to the learning tablet, government is putting measures in place to ensure that each student have access to the learning tablet both in school and at home.
One of the Teachers, Miss Alawiye Omowumi, said that introduction of e-learning tablet has positive impact on the learning ability of the children because they have been able to understand and answer questions correctly compared to before the gadget was introduced.
Initially, some students when they took assignment home, they bring it back to school telling their teachers they didn’t understand but since the registration of the students to e-learning, they search for answers, get solution and more explanations.
Miss Alawiye urged parents to guide and supervise their children when using their phones to learn at home, as this will help in achieving greater education.
Speaking with some of the pupils of Primary three aged 11 and 13 Falola Blessing and Nurudeen Adegoke explained that e-learning tablet has really improved their performance in school as the system has helped them to understand their English, mathematics and other subjects better.
“With the introduction of the e-learning tablet our education has been improved greatly as the system make leaning more easy and comprehensive, especially in most of the subjects we find hard and difficult to understand, using of the e-learning tablet has affected our performance positivity, we can now answer questions easily especially the English and mathematics”.
While commending the effort of the government for introducing e-learning table, they appealed to the government to provide more tablets so that they can have access to each of the system individually.
