“Whatever
it takes to educate the Bahamian Children; the price is cheap compared to that
of an ignorant nation.”
One of the greatest challenge we face as a
country is to continue to educate our people. There is abundance of information
available at the touch of a button, however many persons don’t read the news
papers, listen to radio or TV or browse the Internet. One of the reasons is affordability. Single
parents working had to put food on the table always compromises when it comes
to buying daily news papers or spending thousands of Dollars buying Mac or IPAD
or to subscribe to Internet.
Another challenge for our country is to
provide Sixty six thousand or more Educational PAD for the Bahamian school
children with an affordable price with the vision to create the Bahamas as an
IT Hub in the region or as a center of Information Technology in this
hemisphere. Today’s modern technology motivates resourcefulness and hands-on
learning with features we never find in any other instructive tools we ever
used.
“I believe
whatever it takes to educate the Bahamian children; the price is cheap compared
to that of an ignorant nation.” The world is yet to see the complete
information technology revolution and it is more unprecedented in the history. It should not leave Bahamians behind. The
world has seen only 10% of that revolution.
Another challenge we
face is to keep up with the traditionalism and modern development. A cultural
transformation is what is required from old is Gold and Godly to new is Gold
and Godly when it comes to technology and development. John Maxwell once said;
his multimillion Dollar Company was making 95% of its annual income not from
the things the company was doing five years ago.
Another challenge is to build influentially
built in -Apps, where students engage with content in an interactive ways, find
information in an instant, and access an entire library on their finger print
with the Bahamian content and history. Even though we are a small nation but we
are unique in our own identity and history.
The task is to
educate our children with our history and uniqueness. And now, with the introduction of Multi-Touch
textbooks and 242Pad it takes learning to a whole new level and easier. In the information age the knowledge is
doubling every two and half years. Text books are outdated before even they are
published. In this postmodern era the learning styles changed dramatically and
the conventional text book dilemma and heavy backpacks and weighted down are no
more of students’ interest. This crate
an urgent need for change
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