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… Plans iPad deployment in classrooms
The Chairman, Board of Governors of
Olashore International School, Prince Bimbo Olashore, has said that Nigeria
cannot continue to play catchup with technologies, just as his school has
advanced plans to deploy iPads in classrooms, reports ITRealms.
Speaking at the 2015 Apple iPad
Summit organized by Core Group Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa, Prince
Olashore said that Nigeria cannot also wait for technology transfer any more
but to do something about being competitive with the rest of the world,
hence his school took the path it has taken to empower teachers and students
technologically.
“We have to leapfrog 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 said.
The iPads in Classrooms programme is
expected to be achieved by setting up Local Area Network (LAN) distribution in
classrooms and hostels, wireless distribution, indoor wireless device with high
frequency, and firewalls to manage internet access on the iPad.
In addition, Prince Olashore
informed ITRealms that they have plans to deploy audio and visual multimedia
systems in the classrooms that will support the iPad integration, Learning
Management System (LMS) that will not use the Internet and a Mac Server for
Mobile Device Management to manage the iPads.
Equally speaking, the school
Principal, Mr Derek Smith also said that Olashore International will also
review its overall technology framework, through a curriculum mapping program,
faster internet connection, a new mobile device management (MDM) to check
unproductive online presence.
“It will also make professional
development for teachers mandatory, constant and purposeful, and finally,
reinforce Students’ responsibility in taking charge of their lives,” he said.
The Apple Summit
was aimed at running a successful students’ centered
classroom, integrating technology in the class for differentiation, putting
learning at the center of the class not the technology, enabling a successful
flipping of classroom, maximizing the learning time rather than the teaching
time, encouraging collaborative learning system as well as making learning more
experiential and interactive for the students.
Resource
persons were invited from all over the world and most especially North America
to facilitate the different sessions which catered for different levels of
involvement in the deployment of iPad in the teaching learning process.
One of such
facilitators were Kathleen Monnin, Assistant Professor of Literacy at the
University of North Florida, Tom Daccord, Tellagami, Beth Holland, amongst others.
The Summit also looked at how the Substitution Augmentation Modification
Redefinition Model (SAMR model) in which a progression of the adopters of
education technology often follow as they progress through teaching and
learning can be adopted.
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