The Uganda Institute of Communications Technology (UICT) has concluded a week-long training for 80 teachers, farmers and business personnel in ICT skills.
The training was held under the Digital Change Agents Initiative of the Institute and it aimed to enhance digital skills of participants in order to empower them to drive community transformation; train participants in emerging ICT fields including Virtual Reality; Artificial Intelligence and Cyber Security and to equip participants to design and deliver impactful ICT programs tailored to their communities.
The Digital Change Agents Initiative, now in its third year, was formed to address the ICT learning gaps across various regions in the country.
UICT was selected as one of the Digital Transformation Centers under International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and has been conducting training in basic and intermediate digital literacy to various categories of beneficiaries.
“Under this initiative, 20 participants from the East, West, Central and Northern Regions were selected and together formed the Digital Change Agents group with the aim to drive change in education through digital transformation. These are charged with reaching rural communities to mobilize youth and women and small and medium sized enterprises to skill them in ICT,” Francis Bwire, the Initiative Lead said.
He noted that through this training, held between December 9-13 2024, participants were equipped with knowledge and skills as per the CISCO curriculum including Digital Awareness; using computer and mobile devices; introduction to Internet of Things and Introduction to Cyber Security.
This curriculum empowers people through a comprehensive e-learning environment that enables them to learn anytime, anywhere, at their own pace, and with more targeted assessments and accountability than traditional class settings.
Using the internet to provide instructionally supportive-assessment, the CISCO program provides immediate and ongoing feedback to teachers and students about the knowledge and skills students are or are not acquiring.
This feedback allows teachers to modify and adjust their instructional approach on an ongoing basis over the duration of a course.
“Schools in rural areas are challenged with inadequate laboratories and equipment to teach certain subjects like chemistry. However, using the knowledge that I have gained here, I will now use a computer and projector to create a virtual lab where I will teach my students,” said Racheal Tayebwa, a Chemistry and Mathematics teacher from Sembabule district.
Source: Nile Post.
Originally published by Nile Post — content adapted for Digital Change Agents.