At least 120 teachers from the frontier counties are benefitting from a digital literacy-training program, which they will in turn impart on the more than 34,844 learners in different schools in the counties.
The program, which is sponsored by the Education Technology Easy Africa Organization (EdTech) and other partners in the education sector, is aimed at helping the teachers and learners in marginalized areas, to access the digital services and adopt technology in their classrooms.
According to Peter Wairagu, the Country Manager for Raspberry Pi Foundation, which is one of the partners in the program, the trained teachers will become digital champions in their schools and train teaching colleague on the knowledge acquired. "We have seen the ripple effect that when you train one teacher, they also go to their schools and teach their colleagues because the current world is ICT integration for every subject and we believe that before long, we shall be able to cover all the schools, reaching all the learners in the frontier counties," Wairagu said.
By introducing technology in schools, the stakeholders aim to inspire the young learners at a young stage to venture into the ICT sector and become innovators.
