Olashore celebrates Falz on 2016 BET awards

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An uprising Nigerian star, Mr Folarin Falana, popularly known as Falz, is being celebrated by his former school, Olashore International School for winning the 2016 Best New International Act at BET Awards under the Viewers’ Choice category, reports ITRealms.

The award presented at the weekend ahead of the main event which holds at the Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, the United States of America.

ITRealms gathered that Falz was nominated earlier in the month of June, amongst peers in South-Africa, France, Australia, and United Kingdom (UK), even as the Nigerian Comic Rapper and fast rising entertainer slugged it out with other talented up and coming artists around the world to emerge the best.

Falz was nominated at award shows winning Best Actor in a Comedy Movie cum Series at the 2016 Africa Magic Viewer’s Choice Awards for his role as ‘Segun’ in Funke Akindele’s TV series ‘Jenifa’s Diary’. The 2016 BETS Award was hosted by Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross. The BET Awards recognizes artists, entertainers, and athletes across 20 categories.

The nominations are selected by BET’s Voting Academy, which is comprised of fans and an esteemed group of entertainment professionals in the fields of television, film, music, social media, digital marketing, sports journalism, public relations, and the creative arts.

ITRealms also gathered that while at Olashore International School, Falz started out with a music group by friends and released a compilation mixtape titled ‘Shakara’ in 2009. By 2011, he released another album titled ‘Waz Up Guy’, ‘High Class’ and ‘Currency’ which gained him grounds in the Nigerian Music Industry. Later in 2015, Falz released ‘Stories that touch’.

Recently, Falz also won the award of the ‘Most Influential Personality’ at the Friends of Olashore Event organized by the Alumni of the school and concerned personalities. 

He got this award based on the fact that he had shown exemplary strides in his profession and in life generality, and has been able to shape how people act or how things occur in their sphere of influence and beyond. 

Receiving the award on his behalf, recently by his father, a legal luminary and Human Rights Activist, Femi Falana (SAN) spoke, “We are glad our son has carved a niche for himself on the sands of time through passion. We actually sent him to school to study Law but he went ahead to marry his passion with his course having been nurtured to his full potential by the Olashore International School which he attended then. He chose to go into music and today he is doing well for himself. I’m proud of him. I also appreciate Friends Of Olashore for giving him this award.”

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Olashore launches ‘One iPad per Teacher, Student technology curriculum

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With the fast penetration of Information and Communication Technology in the 21^st century, learning in Olashore International School, gained a significant shift in expectations from teachers and students, as it launches to its school system “One iPad per Teacher and Student” new technology driven curriculum, which would enhance the kids ICT know-how to favourably compete with the world especially in an information technology age, reports ITRealms.

In a press release made available to ITRealms, Chairman Board of Trustees, Olashore International, Prince Bimbo Olashore, speaking in an Executive Briefing Session in Lagos,with the theme: 'Blending Technology and Education for World Class learning' stated that, "Nigeria can no longer wait and be playing catch up with technology or keep waiting for technology transfer. We have to leap frog to catch up and get our young Nigerians prepared for the new technology driven world. We are pleased to be making substantial investment in this direction"

He equally added that, "the Challenge is how to produce children to think out of the box and make them clearly different. Communication is the key. If a child has all the A's in the world and cannot communicate, it's a waste of time. The result is the only benchmark to show how well the school is doing on the students. The world has gone far beyond, and how the kids can compete favourably with the world especially in an information technology age, aside from classwork is necessary, so an iPad project was introduced to use technology in education. We went round the world to see how this will be achieved. With this, things will change".

The principal of the school, Mr Derek Smith, ITRealms gathered, shed more light on what the school has put in place to make the project work. He pointed out the support system, guaranteed electricity, Power-point lessons, interactive whiteboards, projectors in classrooms, one to one roll out of iPads, and mobile devices, amongst others, as some things put in place to ensure education and technology.

“Some educational apps will be made available on the iPad which ranges from ‘Ever-green apps’ which will be used across all subjects on the curriculum, ‘iMovie’ which will allow students make educational movies, and ‘Presentation Software’ which will allow for voice over of educational materials, amongst others”, Smith said.

The principal further explained that, the inter-connectivity band width of the school had increased in the last few years by 10, and hopes to keep increasing, and that the fibre optics has been rolled out for coverage and density and that the school has a Mobile Management System (MMS) to control and track all that is done with iPads provided by the school in order to ensure that no student deviates from the actual reason for issuance.

As knowledge becomes freely and easily available through mobile internet access and the value of knowledge retention decreasing, ITRealms authoritatively gathered that Olashore International has called on 21st Century schools to ensure that learners move to the higher levels of Bloom's Taxanomy of learning, beyond knowledge and comprehension to the levels where they are comfortable analysing, synthsosing and evaluating information as it believes will ensure an effective transformation of learning.

ITRealms learnt that Olashore International is the first school in Nigeria to launch this initiative into its school system. 

Daniel Nsolibe/GEE

  

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