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Minister of Primary and Secondary Education Dr Lazarus Dokora has urged schools in Mwenezi district to prioritise the use of Information Communication Technology to equip pupils with knowledge on how to use computerised gadgets.
Addressing villagers during the launch of Mwenezi East legislator Cde Joosby Omar’s projects at Rutenga Business Centre, Minister Dokora emphasised the need to teach computers from an early age.
“Let’s teach our children on ICTs from ECD so that they would be better equipped to be the right citizens in the world that we are living now because everything now needs computers,” he said. Minister Dokora said Government would make arrangements for teachers to be taught computers.
Masvingo provincial education director Mr Zedious Chitiga, in an interview, reiterated Minister Dokora’s call for ICT lessons from an early stage of education.
“We are living in a computerised world where everything is now computerised, hence having ICT is a requisite of every learning institution,” he said. “They should at least teach the children on ICT at grassroots level so that they are imparted skills required in the world we are living now.” Mr Chitiga said computerisation would be gradual in areas without electricity.
“We are, however, sensitising school authorities to at least come up with a way like having generators or solar power so that they teach their children on the use of computers,” he said.
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