The Chief Executive Officer, Dumena Education Mr. Kingsley Ezejiaku, has urged school owners to introduce and integrate digital literacy courses into schools curricula to enable children to learn technology with ease.
Ezejiaku made this advocacy on Tuesday in Abuja at the Classroom of the Future Workshop, with the theme ‘Global Trend in Tech Education,’ organised by Dumena Education.
Digital literacy he said, is an individual’s ability to find, evaluate, and communicate information using typing or digital media platforms.
Ezejiaku said that Dumena Education is a platform that creates concepts to make it easy for children in primary and secondary schools to learn technology.
“I think it is time we begin to have digital literacy in our curriculum in both primary and secondary schools.
So, this workshop is designed to show schools how they will be able to integrate technology and digital literacy into their curriculum.’’
According to him, that children learning mathematics, English and Physics can also learn how to build websites, programmes and robotics from their classroom.
Ezejiaku said that digital literacy helped children learn to build things at a very young age and provide digital solutions to problems that were peculiar to the people.
He said the initiative was aligned the “National Digital Literacy Framework” that was unveiled by National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in July, 2023.
He said that the organisation’s goal was to see that children were learning how to build websites as part of their programmes.
He said that the workshop would be replicated across the 36 states of the nation and FCT.
“I think the government needs to identify organisations like ours who are already aligning with their policies and provide support to organisations that are on ground to implement government policies and directions,” he said.
