Students honoured for participating in e-learning programme
Fifty students from various senior high schools (SHSs) in the country were last Friday awarded for their active participation in the Internet Study Mate (ISM) Education Video (Eduvid Ghana) e-learning programme.
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The ISM programme is an online portal run by Eduvid Ghana, in partnership with the Ghana Education Service (GES), to create a common platform where SHS students across the country can access quality education on the Internet through the sharing of ideas and experiences.
Students get the opportunity to interact and watch live streaming tutorials from teachers across the country when they log on to the ISM website.
The awards ceremony was held to recognise students who had excelled in projects organised by Eduvid.
Globalised world
Speaking at the awards ceremony in Accra last Friday, the Board Chairman of Eduvid Ghana, Professor Agyemang Badu Akosa, said in a globalised world, it was important for all students to have the same opportunity in the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in order to have the best quality of education.
“The main aim of the programme is to make students excellent and confident. Eduvid will make sure all senior high schools get internet in their schools irrespective of the geographical area in which they find themselves” he said, and added that “It really does not matter which school you attend but how you apply what you have whoever you are with the Internet”.
Professor Akosa said the e-learning programme, which was started in 2012, had been piloted in 21 schools and would be replicated across the country.
He said in order to sustain the programme, there was the need to have internet access in all schools so that there would be a shared platform “where nobody was left behind”.
“We cannot start an IMS that is only limited to few schools so it’s important that every school irrespective of its geographical location needs to have access to it,” he said.
Join the portal
The Director of Secondary Division of the GES , Reverend Simon Asige, entreated all students to take the opportunity that the portal provided.
He said the ISM formed part of the GES’s long-term goal of ensuring that every student got access to secondary education in order to build a work force that would help develop the country.
The awards
The awards was categorised into five. Students of O’Reilly SHS, Master Daniel Okeyere and Rhodaline Abedi Otoo took ISM Most Active Student award and the ISM Smart Student respectively.
The ISM Best Project award also went to O’Reilly SHS for their project on photosynthesis.
The ISM Coordinator of the Year and the ISM Teacher of the Year was given to Mr Felix Tenkorang and Mr Tweneboah Isaac of Accra Academy SHS respectively.
