Educators and students may be excited and pleased about the government’s laptop program. But others say the country is not ready. That is because many teachers still are not able to use computers themselves. And a lot of schools are in poor condition and do not have electricity.
The post-primary teachers’ union says it supports the idea of giving computers to first-year students. But the union’s Secretary General -- Akelo Misori -- says students and teachers must first meet basic requirements.
“If basic skills of math and reading are still a challenge in our primary schools, then it means therefor that the introduction of technology to, in schools through laptops is not, may not be a viable component of our learning circumstances now.”
The laptop program was a major campaign promise of Mr. Kenyatta, who won election in March by a narrow vote.
Uhuru Kenyatta
The idea started at the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology in Nairobi.
Providing laptop computers for all first-year schoolchildren in Kenya is expected to cost hundreds of millions of dollars. The government hopes to begin providing the computers to students early next year.
And that’s “As It Is” for today. It was written from reports by Jill Craig and Gabe Joselow in Kenya.
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