To enhance teaching and learning, the federal ministry of education, has announced plans to integrate the Wowbii interactive board, a smart learning board, into classrooms across Nigeria.

The permanent secretary of the ministry of education, Didi Walson-Jack, disclosed this in Abuja while receiving the delegation from the Unity School Old Students Association (USOSA) and Wowbii technology, she expressed excitement about the potential of the WOWBii board to improve teacher-student interaction in public schools.

She emphasized the need for Nigeria to transition to digital classrooms, teachers, and students for the country to become truly digital.

She said, “It therefore means that for Nigeria to be digital, we need to have digital classrooms, digital teachers and of course digital’s students. And this WOWBii board will mark the beginning of interaction with students, by teachers in a way that has never been before in Nigerian public schools.

“So we’re very excited and we look forward to working WOWBii to see how we can escalate this to our schools and to our colleges of education for the teachers to learn this way of interaction digitally with its students.”

The Unity School Old Students Association (USOSA), in partnership with the Wowbii Technology presented the digital interactive board tools to the ministry as part of their efforts to promote digital learning.

In his remarks, the President General of USOSA, Michael Magaji, called on the federal government to introduce digital learning in schools to enhance the education of young people.

He stressed the importance of using technology to create a conducive learning environment and accelerate the quality of education.

Magaji said: “USOSA is at the forefront of thought leadership and practical leadership as regards how to promote public education, introducing best practices, global practices and giving back to our country.

“Getting back to our schools who have made us, we like to say that taxpayers’ money was used for educators’ best standards, international standards. Today with technology we can reinvent those schools. We can recreate those schools with the right tools, the right tools for technology, and the right tools to make the learning environment conducive both for the teacher and student.

“So we can accelerate learning but more importantly, the quality of learning and that experience will help us to Excel. So USOSA is in a give back mode, and no other no other partner is better than the federal minister of education, who educated us many years ago was responsible for education.

“So we’re giving back and we do hope that this adoption will become within the Ministry and of course, across the country. So our students, the Nigerians of tomorrow, the young people of tomorrow to get better quality and given what we got to technology makes this possible and we’re able to use this to give them a better learning experience.”

Also speaking, the Director of Senior Secondary Education, Hajia Binta Abdulkadir, praised USOSA’s initiative in promoting digital learning and expressed hope that all schools would have smart boards to make learning more accessible and engaging.

The founder of Wowbii, Gbolahan Olayomi, noted that the technology was introduced in 2015, and it has since been adopted by private schools around the country.