Lagos now to teach students on Facebook, Twitter

AS part of efforts to aid secondary school students’ performance in school leaving examinations, an electronic-learning and social media project has been launched in Lagos State.

The project, which is in conjunction with the Lagos State government and the Lagos State University, dubbed “LASG-LASU E-learning and Social Media Project,” is expected to leverage on the availability of the internet, mobile phones as well as social media to take education closer to students.

The project is targeted at six key subjects – English, Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Commerce, where emphasis is laid on subject areas generally deemed by students as being too difficult to understand.

In his remarks at the project launch, held in the Faculty of Education, Lagos State University (LASU), the Project Manager, Professor Peter Okebukola, said the project was aimed at presenting difficult topics in the secondary school curriculum in a learner friendly manner, using e-learning and social media protocols.

He also disclosed that the project, which is expected to start fully on January 19, would “significantly boost the performance of Lagos State secondary school students in school and public examinations, especially the Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) and the United Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by JAMB.”

Source: Tribune