The Nigerian Academy of Education (NAE) has urged teachers in the country to embrace Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to remain relevant in the digital age.
The President of the Academy, Prof. U Uvonmi, who spoke at the academy’s 30th annual congress held in Kaduna on Tuesday, said the world had become digital driven.
He said that teachers in the country must join the train or lose out.
Uvonmi said that the theme of the conference, “Transforming Education in Nigeria to Global Levels of Relevance and Competitiveness,” cannot be achieved without teachers systematically keying into the digital age.
In his keynote address, the Secretary to Kogi State Government, Prof. Olubgemiro Jegede, said that the slow adoption of ICT by teachers in the country posed a serious challenge to the nation’s education system.
Jegede described ICT as a crucial tool for delivering quality education in the country and urged Nigerian teachers to key in, to remain relevant and compete favourably on the global stage.
He said that the academy, as a critical stakeholder in the education sector, needed to produce a position paper that would guide government on issues bordering on education.
Declaring the event open, Prof. Vincent Tenebe, the Vice-Chancellor, National Open University of Nigeria, urged the academy to convince the government to reposition the teaching profession.
Tenebe said that teachers must be at the forefront when discussing matters of education, and should be given their due relevance.
“If we don’t recognize them and encourage them, then whatever we are doing, we are just wasting our time.
“Nobody wants to be a teacher today because there is nothing so special about the teaching profession.
“If you can convince the government to make teaching the highest earning profession, people will compete to become teachers and it will not be a dumping ground for job seekers,’’ he said. (NAN)
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