GIVEN THE FAST-PACED technological world in which we live, it is necessary for Barbadian students to take more of their examinations digitally.
Minister of Education Ronald Jones said the time would come “in a few short years” where every assignment and test would be done digitally.
“The modern child has no interest whatsoever in having a mark delivered three weeks down the road. ‘I’ve done it now so I want my results now’. The only thing that can do that is the utilisation of the technology, so that is where we are at today,” Jones said.
He was speaking yesterday at Erdiston Teachers’ Training College where a ceremony was held to rename eight refurbished buildings at the tertiary institution.
He added that with the use of all of the technology, learning became easier for the student but “more difficult” for the teacher since students were very familiar with the way it worked.
“If you want to integrate it properly, you have to prepare. You can’t make sport and turn up on a white board with your markers and say you are teaching because the students understand technology very well and use that technology.
“So if we are to participate in what people say is the fifth industrial revolution, the college has to get student teachers who understand the dynamic nature of this fifth industrial revolution,” he added.
The refurbishment project at the institution came at a cost of about $5 million.
The renamed areas include The Chamberlain “Colin” Hope Lecture Theatre, The Maureen Lucas Library, The Glenville Blackman Resource Centre, The Lloyd Wood Centre For Professional Development, The Errol Best Science Laboratory, The Vere Depeiza Learning Centre, The Dorothy King Teaching Complex and The Adrian Kirton Recreation Centre. (TG)
