As the government, through the ministry of education looks forward to introducing digital learning into primary schools, the Kenya Institute for Curriculum Development says that only 200 teachers from primary schools are qualified to teach in digital classes.
This raises questions on how the pupils will be taught since they are more than the number of teachers capable of teaching the digital classes.
Kibera’s Mark Munene, said the government should work harder to provide the teachers with quality education in ICT so that they can also teach the pupils.
‘‘It is of no value to have computers in schools yet there are no teachers to take the children through the learning process. It is shameful for a teacher to teach something that she or he does not understand,’’ he said.
Patricia Oluoch also said there is no need to teach a primary school child on how to use a computer yet when he joins high school he attends a school that has no computer classes. Ms Oluoch said she feels the government should make computer lessons more compulsory in high schools than in primary schools.