Over 500 teachers both from government aided schools and private schools in Entebbe municipality, Wakiso district have been equipped with Information Computer Technology (ICT) basics.
The four days training was organized by the Entebbe municipal council in conjunction with the Universal Communications Service Access Funds (UCSAF) under the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC).
The participants were grouped into four centers including one at Entebbe secondary school, Entebbe comprehensive secondary school, Airforce secondary school and Entebbe girls secondary school. All the centers were facilitated by Kisubi Associated Writers Agency (KAWA).
The closing ceremony was presided over by former State Minister for Information Technology Nyombi Thembo who is the director of UCSAF. Nyombi urged the educators to get access to internet gadgets including smartphones and laptops to be smart in this digital world.
“As UCSAF we feel that every teacher must be ICT literate because as we know over 18 million Ugandans are in schools and the way education content is to be delivered to the students using online platforms making ICT the bridge between the new curriculum,” Nyombi said.
On the issue of the aging teachers, Nyombi said that they must cope-up to remain relevant because their is no way you can deliver educational content when the kinds of people you are teaching are more knowledgeable than you therefore they must have the basics skills of information computer technology (ICT).
Paul Charles Rukundo the Executive Director of Kisubi Associated Writers Agency (KAWA) remarked that they want teachers to get in touch with the ICT devices, use them to their advantages, teach better and deliver better contents to the learners.
Therefore he pledged to continue with this program of offering teachers with the ICT basics in every holiday for a full year so that they get exposed to the digital version.
The Municipal educational officer Joyce Nalubega said that the primary purpose of the training was to ensure that all teachers go digital by supporting them in improving on their knowledge and interpretation of information computer technology (ICT) because of the digital age.
“We hope for an effective teaching learning process because teachers will now be able to do good research, lesson plans, schemes of work among others,” she remarked.
Nalubega also revealed that they are in an agreement with all the 500 teachers to have the continuous trainings every first week of each holiday in away of upgrading their skills in ICT.
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