ABUJA – Federal Ministry of Education on Friday declared its commitment to integrate WOWBii digital technology into the schools and colleges of education across the country.
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mrs. Didi Walson-Jack, made the commitment when the leadership of Unity Schools Old Students Association (USOSA) led by the President General, Michael Magaji, led a delegation to present a WOWBii interactive device to the ministry.
The Permanent Secretary, who described the device as the begining of the digitalization of the Federal Government Colleges, and as well as the teachers in the country, said the ministry would go back to the drawing board and see how the digital device could be integrated into the nation’s classrooms and also to teach teachers.
“I am very excited. Today, I believe marks the beginning of the digitalization of the Federal Government Colleges, and the digitalization of the teachers. Once the Federal Ministry of Education gets it right, every other schools would get it right. I will start appreciating the President General of USOSA.
“I recall it is barely two weeks ago that you led a large delegation to my office just to pay a courtesy call. I recall on that day you did promise you will be back here with WOWBii to make a donation of Wowbii interactive device. I can tell you that for us here in the Federal Ministry of Education, and I know I speak for my directors, this is the beginning of a revolution. We are going to go back to the drawing board and see how we can integrate this into our classrooms and to teach our teachers.
“It therefore means that for Nigeria to be digital, we need to have digital classrooms, digital teachers and of course digital’s students.
“And this WOWBii board will mark the beginning of interaction with students, by teachers in a way that has never been before in Nigerian public schools.
“So we’re very excited and we look forward to working WOWBii to see how we can escalate this to our schools and to our colleges of education for the teachers to learn this way of interaction digitally with its students.” she said.
In his remarks, Michael Magaji, the President General of USOSA, said the idea is to provide support to the ministry, and bring the country at per with the current development in education digitalization.
Also speaking, Gbolahan Olayemi, the Chief Executive Officer of WOWBII made a presentation of how to effectively apply the device in the classrooms.
He connected the Ministry to Schools in Port Harcourt, Abuja where the Perm Sec interacted with teachers using the device in their various classrooms in real-time.
According to Olayemi, the WOWBii interactive device would bridge the gap between the Gen Z, a term used to describe people born after year 2000, whom he said are digital natives, and the older people who are found in Colleges as teachers and lecturers known as digital migrants, stressing that the device is what currently obtains across the developed world.
Chdi Ugwu is a correspondent with Independent Newspapers.
