Microsoft Corporation in a bid to strengthen the Nigerian education sector recently organized the “Microsoft Innovative Educators National Forum”. The aim of the forum was to provide Nigerian teachers with another opportunity to enhance their skills and meet the knowledge demands of the 21st.
During the event, teachers were amply encouraged to embrace technology enabled learning and teaching skills which would help them remain relevant in the 21st century.
The Microsoft Educator Network is aimed at educators and it teaches them how to effectively use technology to teach and develop their students. It also offers educators a chance to renew their skills and create new teaching and learning skills.
The forum brought over fifty (50) educators from both public and private institutions, from various states across Nigeria.
Yemisi Oredugba, a School Principal and a Microsoft Innovative Educator present at the event mentioned that many your-pharmacies.com teachers were currently not interested in acquiring modern day techniques in their field. According to her, too many teachers do not have the skills required to teach effectively in this century, not because they lack the tools but because they were not at all interested.
In her own words “You will be amazed that some teachers have laptops but will rather see a movie than update a class score sheet on an excel sheet, which is very sad.”
She however urged all the teachers present to embrace the opportunity of being a Microsoft Innovative Educator as a sure means to improving their teaching skills to match the demands of today’s teaching environment.
Also at the event was Patrick Onwumere, Director, Education Industry, Microsoft Nigeria, who spoke about Microsoft’s commitment to help re-shape Nigeria’s education system. He said ““At Microsoft, we help educational institutions meet the evolving needs of education infrastructures by offering cost-effective IT products and technologies that help secure and manage the business of education, in the cloud on premise.”