UNICEF Successfully Trained 675 Nigerian Teachers On Digital Literacy 

United Nations Children's Education Fun (UNICEF) supported by the Global Partnership Education (GPE) and in collaboration with Niger State Ministry of Education has successfully trained 675 teachers on digital literacy to bridge learning gap.

Education Officer, UNICEF Kaduna Field Office, Mr Francis Elisha, stated this in Minna at the weekend stressing that the training was to equip teachers in the state.

He stressed that the training is aimed to expose teachers to the digital knowledge and to improve the standard of teaching. The effort is also hoped to improve learning among school children. He said that teachers need to be digitally inclined for the Nigeria Learning Passport (NLP) to be effective.

Mr frasis remarked that the training was to equip teachers in the state with digital knowledge on how to use learning passport in teaching and to bridge urban and rural gap.

It will be recalled that state government recently launched the Nigeria Learning Passport (NLP), an online e-learning platform with online mobile and offline capability, that enables continuous access to quality education.

Elisha explained that digital literacy was part of UNICEF response to bridge learning gap using digital content, saying that for the NLP to be effective, there was the need for teachers to be digitally inclined.

“It is a way of exposing teachers to digital literacy for learning through digital by platform, this is to bridge learning gap between urban and rural areas as the LP have the capacity to work online and offline,’’ he said.