By: John Kariuki
Kenya Women Teachers Association (abbreviated as KEWOTA) under the wise and able leadership of the Chief Executive Officer Benta Opande has championed digital learning in the country.
Alluding this in the side-lines of the World Teachers Day, CEO Benta observed:
“And we have gone ten steps ahead as KEWOTA with our laptop project. Currently we are supplying laptops to teachers. These laptops have got digital books which have already been embedded in them. Around 145 books from the orange book as approved by KICD, which are digitalised are available for teachers on the Opiq platform. Our members now can carry a laptop and go with it to class without carrying textbooks, so long as that school has a projector.
But if the school has students who already have got laptops, the learning gets more exciting, more captivating, and children enjoy learning a lot.
In that laptop, you can generate as a teacher your lesson plans, your records of work, your scheme of work, and everything that you require is in that gadget. We are providing it as loan which is given by our finance partners like My credit company.
We are encouraging all teachers to embrace the digital space in order to enhance their skills in digital learning and also digital teaching. Once we have teachers who can teach using the gadgets we have, we will not need to be crying about shortage of teachers, because one teacher can teach 300 kids in one hour and the feedback can be provided immediately.”
She added, “In that laptop we also have a project where the teachers can earn income. You simply need to register for free on the Roodito platform, upload quality questions which are then audited by our retired teachers. The platform has over 840,000 students already registered there. So once you upload that question we have very senior retired teachers who are auditing those questions and when your question is picked, you are paid through your wallet which is in that laptop and that money you withdraw it using Mpesa. We want teachers to have a side hustle alongside their normal duties. Our flagship project is to ensure that the teacher has more money in the pocket and also has better skills. I want to appeal to our colleagues in the trade unions to come and let’s embrace synergy into how we can improve teachers in this very fast changing teaching and learning environment.”
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