AfricaPress-Tanzania: DAR Teknohama Business Incubator (DTBi), an affiliate of the Tanzania Commission for Science and Technology (Costech), has trained pre-primary school teachers to use digital technologies as teaching tools.
Under the project called Africa Code Week Programme, teachers have been empowered to use computer programmes to make pupils easily grasp lessons through practical means.
Ms Doreen Michael, a trainer with DTBi for the project, said they had imparted digital skills to teachers so that they could prepare well pupils for the competitive digital market.
“We want to have digital teachers so that we also have well-groomed pupils for the digital market,” she said in Dar es Salaam recently.
This training was organised for over 100 teachers from pre and primary schools in the city. Last year, the programme reached out to 36,000 teachers and 3 million pupils across the country.
One of the beneficiaries of training, Teacher Michael Magabe from St Florens Academy said as the world was going more digital, such training would help them teach pupils practically and realise competence-based teaching.
Another trainee, Ms Ziredi Juma, Executive Director of Zerry Education Centre, which operates daycare centres, said training had helped her get digital techniques how to make children understand early learning.
“With the application of digital means, we can have simple methods of teaching children,” she said.
Costech, in collaboration with InfoDev, established DTBi which is hosted at Costech.
DTBi aims at serving as a hub for technology startups and actively identifies and provides for value-added services required to support the incubator.
Since its establishment in 2011, a total of 29 ICTbased solutions (innovations) from 27 incubators (both residential and virtual) were commercialised through different agreements with private entities and government departments. Out of which 559 direct and more than 16,000 indirect employments were created.
