RAJSHAHI, March 17, 2019 (BSS)- Academics and researchers here unanimously
said the role of teachers is very vital to make the ICT for education (ICT4E)
programme a total success.
They mentioned that the focus of the programme is to equip teachers with
IT knowledge so that they can prepare multimedia teaching materials for the
students.
The views were expressed at an ICT4E Teachers Ambassador Conference at
Rajshahi University (RU) Senate Building on Saturday.
Department of Primary Education (DPE), Department of Education (DoE) and
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division jointly organised the
conference.
A large number of skilled teachers in ICT4E and district and upazila level
officials concerned from all eight districts under Rajshahi division joined
the meeting.
RU Vice-Chancellor (VC) Professor Abdus Sobhan addressed the conference as
the chief guest while its Pro-VCs Prof Ananda Kumar Shaha and Prof Chowdhury
Muhammad Jakaria spoke as special guests with Deputy Commissioner of Rajshahi
SM Abdul Kader in the chair.
Head of Public Service Cluster in ICT Programme Abdus Sobur Khan, Director
of Department of Secondary and Higher Education Prof Selim Mian and its
Regional Director Prof Abdul Mannan and Divisional Deputy Director of DPE
Abul Kalam Azad also spoke on the occasion.
In his remarks, VC Prof Sobhan said education has become a technology-
based version to adapt the rapidly changing 21 century. This programme in
Bangladesh will make us more prepared to tap the changes into good.
“Interactive multimedia classrooms have introduced a new dimension to the
education system of Bangladesh. Teachers and educational officers can make
the dimension more interactive through the process,” he added.
Abdus Sobur Khan told the meeting that the teachers are working to promote
multimedia classrooms (MMC), digital content, model content, student portal,
e-book, MMC monitoring application, daisy talking book, digital brail and
literacy and numeracy learning.
The Access to Information (a2i) programme along with the Ministry of
Education and the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education are jointly
organising the project. Under the ICT4E, the authority has taken initiatives
to hold several conferences in every division.