Princeton College Goes Digital, Assures Students of Quality Education

Princeton College, Surulere, Lagos, has upgraded its teaching tools to digital facilities in preparation for the 2014/2015 academic session, designed to offer quality education to all students.

With the latest upgrade, students are expected to receive instructions in all subjects electronically. The e-learning introduction is an expansion of education technology whose first phase was introduced a year earlier in the college.
Audio-visual equipment ranging from, electronic boards, system speakers and overhead projectors were installed in all the classrooms and laboratories. All the teachers were also trained in the use of the equipment, and in the furtherance of its effective implementation, every teacher acquired a laptop computer for classroom presentations.


With digital education as the cardinal focus of the school, Princeton College recorded 100 per cent pass with distinctions in ICT/Computer Mathematics and English language in the just concluded 2014 Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (SSCE).


Executive Director of Princeton College, Dr. Dolapo Bankole, who spoke on the need to go digital, said, "As at today, all the students have received specially made laptops with classroom management software for more effective classroom interactions. It is believed that this further step will surely improve upon the success achieved during the last session."
“Among other benefits, the upgrade of the school's facilities will make learning easy and interesting, as technology has brought about tremendous improvements in banking, agriculture, health and many other fields of human endeavor, as it it is expected that the education sector should not be an exception.”


The Principal of the school, Mr. Sylvester Obiakor, said, "All the teacher needs do in a class is to thoroughly explain and highlight his/her note content, and the students go down to activities. Learners’ activities are far more effective in achieving teaching objective than note taking. Before now, less class activities such as class works, group works, and quizzes were done because both the teacher and the learners spent most of the time copying notes."


He explained that the digital facilities would make learners study ahead, as the students receive all their notes for the term in record time.
According to Obiakor, it would give the students the opportunity to study ahead of every class. "Each topic has a lot of activities that prepares the students for the next contact in the class. The evaluation activities will also prepare the students for their continuous assessments. If a student is unavoidably absent from school, he needs not borrow note from his classmates upon resumption, since all lessons are installed in the computer and could be played back at convenience," the principal said.


He further explained that the audio visual equipment in each class has the ability to record and recall all previous lessons. The teacher can recall an old lesson for revision purposes; steps in a Mathematics problem or a scientific experiment could be recalled without going through the entire process all over.
He said the E-learning method would allow the teacher to play videos/audios and show real life images as teaching aids, ad well help in preparing students for Computer Based Tests (CBTs), as the students' laptops have a lot of programmes designed to prepare them for all forms of computer based tests. Some of the school based assessments are also computer based.

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