Transitioning from Traditional to Digital Learning: Edouard Mimbi is an extra motivated teacher
On this Global Day for Education Day, Edouard Mimbi is boosting his motivation as he is the first teacher to try digital teaching methods
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As he transitions from traditional teaching methods to digital teaching and learning, Edouard Mimbi is extra motivated and keen to teach. He was the first teacher to try digital teaching methods in Gabon. Confident and dynamic, he demonstrated all that the Learning Passport has to offer to the authorities and the Ministry of Education during the pilot at Libongui Public Primary School in Koulamoutou. Thanks to the UNICEF-Airtel partnership, in the framework of "Reimagining Education", and with the sponsorship of the President of the National Assembly, the Learning Passport has now been launched in Gabon.
During the session, Mimbi explained how an e-learning session works and how to use it to teach students effectively as if he had been using the Learning Passport his whole life. It is his second year of teaching the 4th grade, and new technologies will allow him to help the young generation to gain digital skills and prepare for future jobs.
He won’t miss the opportunity to teach young people about how to use new technology.
Mimbi is over the moon that he was able to follow a week-long training course on how to use computers, how to use the Learning Passport learning platform, and how to install an internet connection on laptops and tablets in pilot schools.
“We have too many students in every class. It can be very difficult to help them all. Digital learning resources will help us a great deal,” he explains.
UNICEF will give 500 tablets, schoolbags and headsets to schoolchildren during the pilot. The organization will also provide schools, education authorities, teaching staff, administrators and supervisors with laptops and video projectors. The pilot is currently taking place in nine schools in the provinces of Estuaire, Ogooué Lolo and Moyen Ogooué.
The computer equipment for the pupils has been configured for the educational activities which will take place during the pilot and made secure using a tracking system. In addition, each province has a local organization committee with digital and pedagogical specialists to monitor and supervise the pilot sites.
