The Nigerian teens clueless on computers but aiming to reboot

Devi , 5 months ago

I used to teach ESOL students and this is quite common. Very accomplished students who had often come over for some quite skilled jobs, but hadn’t used a mouse before. It’s hard to remember how odd it is as a control system when you’ve used them from childhood.

Often they’d used phones or tablets though so they’d all be touching the screens.

stown , 5 months ago

Well I learned a new word from that article : invigilatorThanks BBC

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Click here to see the summaryChristian is now one of about 240 candidates registered for next year’s Jamb who are undergoing free preparatory lessons, including how to use a computer, sponsored by a group of people who come from Ngwo but now live in different parts of the world. “We found out that 70% of our 218 children who took Jamb failed,” said Alex Onyia, a member of the group and CEO of Educare, a company in Lagos that provides software to educational institutions and businesses. Concerned about the possible impact on crime rates and the youths’ prospects, Mr Onyia organised about 12 volunteers, including their local senator, from the Ngwo Yellowpages WhatsApp group which is made up of more than 500 people. After the first month, the students were taken to a nearby technical institute and given their first assessment during which they were required to sit in front of desktop computers and answer test questions as if they were in an actual Jamb exam, with Educare providing the software. Some photos on social media once went viral of a teacher in a government school in Ghana who, faced with the same challenge, improvised with detailed chalk diagrams of a Microsoft Word screen. Mr Onyia has promised the students that he, Senator Osi Ngwu and the Ngwo YellowPages will sponsor all of those who score above 300 in the Jamb with full scholarships for the entire duration of whatever course they choose to study in any Nigerian public university. — Saved 78% of original text.