When you recall of must - have equipment for an information and communicating technology ( ICT ) class , electronic computer are at the very top of the list . But , this week , picture of a Ghanaian teacher using much more creative method acting have go viral .
Meet Richard Appiah Akoto . Akoto , 33 , is an ICT teacher at Betenase M / A Junior High School in Sekyedomase , a town in the Ashanti Region of Ghana and a two hours ’ private road from Ghana ’s 2d city , Kumasi . or else of desktop and tablets , Akoto uses blackboards and chalk .
He teaches his scholar how to use computers by drawing meticulously elaborated pictures . This one of a Book processing window took the Internet by violent storm after he post it on Facebook two weeks ago . Like many teachers , Akoto goes by a different name on the societal media program .
“ pedagogy of ICT in Ghana ’s shoal is very funny . ICT on the board paa . I enjoy ma scholarly person so have to do wat will make them understand Wat am teach , ” he pen in his post .
Back in 2011 , the Ghanian government introduced a set of national exams , which include a test in ICT . teen are expected to sit the examination aged 14 and 15 to advance to gamey school . Yet , the school Akoto learn at still does n’t have access to reckoner .
So Rebecca Enonchong , technical school CEO and entrepreneur , squeeze Microsoft , calling on them to fit Betenase Junior High with some badly require supplies .
Microsoft replied , promising to send Akoto a machine from one of their partners . They also offered access their MCE program and free professional ontogeny resources .
What does Akoto think of all the attention ?
“ This is not my first clock time [ of drawing ] it . I have been doing it anytime I am in the schoolroom , ” Akoto told Gizmodo Africa . “ I wish place pictures on Facebook so I just mat like [ portion out it ] . I did n’t know it would get the attention of people like that . ”
kudos to Akoto for think outside the box and being an all - around whizz teacher , but this chronicle highlights a serious problem confront Ghana ’s public shoal organisation .
According to Gizmodo , there have been calls to speak the huge disparities between private and public schools in the country and calls for a more equal distribution of educational resources .
[ H / T : Gizmodo ]
