‘Use technology to improve education’

The Executive Director of Open Learning Exchange (OLE) Ghana, Mr Kofi E.N. Essien, has called on stakeholders in the education sector to make conscious effort to integrate technology into teaching and learning.

He said the delivery of quality education in Ghanaian basic schools could be done in a cost-effective manner if all stakeholders embraced newly evolved technological devices that facilitated learning.

Mr Essien observed that the key role that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) could play in widening access to and improving the quality of education at all levels in Ghana included literacy education, facilitating education delivery and training at all levels.

He said OLE Ghana had discovered a new tool known as the Raspberry Pi that supported quality education delivery which it had been using as a learning model.

Mr Essien expressed regrets that the deployment, exploitation and development of ICTs to accelerate education worldwide had been bedeviled by a number of challenges including infrastructure and costs, thus limiting the potential use of technology to achieve educational gains.

The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card-sized computer built on a single circuit board with microprocessors, memory and other features required of a functional computer. Unlike a typical personal computer the device may not include slots into which accessory cards may be plugged.
It can plug into a computer or TV, making it possible to be used for many of the things that desktop PC does.