Young Ghanaian pupils from Basic 1 to 3 can now have the opportunity to upgrade their way of studying in and out of their classroom through a platform known as the Learning Passport.
Learning Passport was launched by the Minister of Education, Dr. Yaw Osei Adutsum with some student representations who are already making use of the service.
This initiative by is giving children the opportunity to study all their syllabus online with the aid of their teachers while parents monitor progress in every step of their learning endeavour.
Ahead of the launch, Senior lecturer and Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Ghana, Dr. Kofi Sarpong Adu-Manu explained that the learning passport is Ghana’s first digital initiative tailored to suit pupils at the basic level as they grow up.
“You believe that in our homes, the 2 and 3-year-olds are chasing after phones because their cartoons are resting on our digital infrastructure. So they are already having the feeling for digital technologies. We want to introduce them, and get them to play with it and then they grow up with it,” he said.
He proceeded to guide the audience to sign up to the website to familiarize with how the initiative works.
“Go to Google now and type, Ghana.learningpassport.org. So on your top right, you will see a sign up button. You will see the register. Click on it. We will take your basic information because we want to make sure it is runned by the children with parental control.”
“We want you to know whatever your ward is learning on that platform. So your name, phone number, email address is required. We proceed to authenticate your email address to have accessibility to track the performance of these young people. We want you to see the analytics and know whether or not your wards are doing well,” the website’s consultant explained.
The Minister of Education was now invited to officially launch the the initiative where he stated that “this is a great opportunity afford us by UNICEF“.
He invited a student from the Haatso Presby basic school to join him launch the program as they were given the privilege to experience how the platform works.
The student named Tracy said, “I am very happy to be here today for launching of the learning passport. Learning passport has really helped me and i recommend it to you.”
The minister added his voice to say, “what a better way to launch this program with recommendation from a student, the end user. Today I am excited to join Tracy in launching the Learning passport. Consider it duely launched by Tracy and the Minister for Education,”
The Minister of Education has a bold agenda to transform Education in Ghana using robust and innovative Edtech solutions.
Education Minister, Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum has urged headteachers to take advantage of technology to strengthen student learning practices and their cognitive skills.
According to him, this will help create a generation of critical thinkers who are able to do more than recall information.
The Minister launched the initiative in collaboration with the Centre for National Distance Learning and Open Schooling (CENDLOS).
An initiative previously known as The President’s Special Initiative on Distance Learning (PSI-DL), established in 2002 to blend ICT with Ghana’s system of education.
Meanwhile the Learning Passport was invented by the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) propelled by Dr Yaw Osei Adutwum’s vision to impact Ghana’s education with technology.
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source: TheIndependentGhana