the School and ICT (Gracecourt schools, Awka)

Introduction

It can no longer be over-emphasised that the mission of the school is to spearhead the silent Academic revolution that will positively turn around the potentials of our children to regain our pride as the most academically advanced state. 

Position of the School

In this regard, the school has taken giant steps in the right direction to inculcate the habit of information technology into our academic programme to introduce these children into the current evolution in information as the key factor in child’s education building. Grace Court Int’l Schools has ensured that it is not left out of this world acceptable information sharing network (the ICT), our website has be enriched with lots of events, programmes, as well as information. Grace court makes sure that parents and pupils are not kept in the dark on events and information about the school and they can also assess the schools’ educative materials, events and programmes. We have advance and empowered our website to suit the need for ICT EDUCATION.

In February 2016, the school took another giant step in fulfilling her promise of being an ICT oriented school, exposing the pupils/students to the world of ICT and EDUCATION today.

We have consistently trained our staffs on how to use the ICT for teaching and communicating effectively. We have also made sure we empower our ICT department with unlimited and consistent internet connection, making it possible for teachers to send and assess their online assessment for effective communication with the pupils on and off the classrooms.

We’ve also provided a mobile projector for easy learning; and teaching the pupils/students with the aid of a projector and computer, and also not forgetting to train our pupils on how to navigate through the computer effectively.

Response of Parents

But despite the effort of the school to train our pupils/student to be able to face the challenges poised by the use of ICT in education, some parents have made our vision more tasking. This is due to the reasons which they give to their kids.  These reasons are fashioned to why they can’t key to the vision of the school. The school discovered that some reasons why the pupils/students have refused to participate in the ICT programme is that their parents;

i.                    Can’t  empower them with a laptop/computer

ii.                  Can’t provide a modem for an internet connection

Some have also told the pupils that the school is disturbing them and that they are too young to know how to make use of the computer and internet.

The Big QUESTIONS ARE:

ARE OUR KIDS TRUELY TOO YOUNG OR TOO SMALL TO HAVE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT THE COMPUTER?

ARE THEY TOO SMALL TO KEY IN TO THE TREND OF THEIR GENERATION?