Title: Computer literacy in Savelugu Location: Categories: Technology
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
Ghana is gradually but steadily approaching a technological stage in her socio economic development where the application o f ICT can no longer be taken for granted. Whether Ghanaians like it or not, ICT has come to remold the entire globe into an e-world and a time will soon come where you can be a PhD holder in mathematics from the “University of Heaven”, but if you are not a computer literate, the system will flush you out.
Having reviewed the situation, Northern Information Network for Schools (NINS) is fully convinced that bridging the digital divide will both improve the education level and also reduce the poverty level. NINS, a community based organization has therefore been set up to help bridge the digital divide by promoting and creating awareness on ICT tools.
The current generation of school children is growing up in a world where Information and Communication Technologies (ICT’s) are pervading almost every facet of their lives.
ICT’s have promised to expand the basic nature of education such as the ability to link written with audio and visual materials that can enrich the full range of the learner’s senses.
The technology also creates a qualitative expansion in the means of education by taking a process rooted in the one-way delivery of knowledge and making it more participatory and reciprocal. Computer communication takes a system of learning based in narrow linear, narrative form and opens it up to a wide range of non linear, exploratory processes that allow the learner to make full use of his or her multiple cognitive maps.
ACTUAL WORK DONE
Northern Information Network for Schools (NINS) has set up a computer-training centre (with four computers) in Savelugu where students in the district are trained to become competent computer users.
Northern Information Network for schools has set up NINS-ICT clubs in basic and second cycle schools in the Savelugu Nanton District of the Northern Region. Some of the schools where the NINS-ICT clubs are functioning very actively include the following:
1. PONG TAMALE L/A JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
2. PONG TAMALE EXPERIMENTAL JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
3. SAVELUGU JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
4. YOO ROMAN CATHOLIC JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
5. RASHADIYA JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
6. TIYUMTABA ACADEMY
7. SAVELUGU EXPERIMENTAL PRIMARY SCHOOL.
8. SAVELUGU SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL
NINS also visits the schools to give talks to the students on the need and importance of ICT and other ICT related issues.
NINS has also set up a youth based ICT club. The youth based ICT club is made up of some fifteen selected non-schooling and unemployed youth. They are given free computer based training to make them become competent computer users. In all, two hundred and twenty five (225) students are so far enjoying free computer based training organized by NINS. Also, fifteen (15) unemployed youth are also being given free computer based training putting the total sum of people benefiting from free computer based training so far at two hundred and forty (240).
Objectives:
To create awareness on the power of ICT’s
To create a platform for the education of students on ICT tools in the north
To promote the use of ICT’s as a research tool
To promote knowledge sharing through the effective use of ICT’s
To offer training in ICT to students to enable them become competent computer and Internet users.
To organize and hold talks on ICT for Developmental (ICT4D) issues.
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