Teaching in digital mode is much more attractive than traditional teaching method and effective method for creating smart human resources. Students are able to master the one-year syllabus easily in three to four months and teachers, students, education related officials and management committee officials are claiming that the enrollment and regular attendance rate of students has increased many times due to the delivery of lessons in digital mode. Posts and Telecommunication Minister Mr. Mustafa Jabbar informed so while inspecting the digital education program of Banshbari Government Primary School of Ashulia Police Station today.
The project is being implemented with funding from BTRC’s Social Responsibility Fund for digital transformation of government primary school education in underprivileged remote and distant areas. Under this project, 650 primary schools and 28 neighborhood centers of Chittagong Hill Tracts are implementing digital content teaching programs on digital devices.
During the inspection of the project activities, the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications expressed the experience of the project in primary schools and neighborhood centers in remote and deprived areas of the country.
There is a demand to provide digital content in schools which have computers. Minister Mr. Mustafa Jabbar said that digital teaching method is a very fruitful integrated method for creating smart human resource. Digital learning does not mean PowerPoint presentations or televised classes for students. Digital content for education is a standardized curriculum for teaching on digital devices using interactive activities, images, audio, video, animation, Introducing education on digital devices with software programmed with text and other multimedia content. The developed world has been imparting education using this method for a long time. In Bangladesh, Ananda Multimedia started the journey of digital transformation of education by providing education in this manner in a limited scale since 1999. He called upon all concerned to work in a coordinated initiative including educators, technicians, teachers, students in the digital transformation of education to face the challenges of digital industrial revolution. The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications said that due to technical reasons, digital education is not as understandable for children as it is in the conventional education system. If conventional education is not converted to digital education, we have to face tough challenges.
Highlighting the fruitful contribution of teaching digital content to create interest among children who do not want to read, he said, Children learn with joy. Mr. Mustafa Jabbar, the pioneer of digital transformation of education, describing his long experience of 36 years in digital technology development, said that the digital content creators of education will digitize the syllabus and syllabus of NCTB. However, if necessary, the supporting subjects of the syllabus should also be digitized. He recently described the experience of various educational institutions under the digital content project and said that there has been an incredible response among teachers and students. Requests are coming from all over the country to expand the project. He said that since 1987, in the digital transformation of education, we have made software for children’s education despite facing many obstacles. Until 2008 I failed again and again. He said the idea of using computers in education is not my invention. In 1987, I saw the method of teaching using computers in the American International School in Bangladesh. The big challenge in implementing that idea was to convert our textbooks into digital data. In continuation of the implementation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Digital Bangladesh program, we have been able to convert the curriculum to digital in the last 14 years since 2009.
Mustafa Jabbar, highlighting the various programs taken by the government to keep the life of the people of the country alive by utilizing the benefits of digital technology during the Corona period, said, ‘Future civilization will be built on digital connectivity. If conventional education is not converted to digital education, we have to face tough challenges. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s Digital Bangladesh Program is our driving force to move forward. Digital Bangladesh program is the main mantra to make us better than the developed world amid the pandemic. In continuation of this, the smart human resources of building a smart Bangladesh will be developed – I strongly hope that the Sonar Bangla of Bangabandhu’s cherished dream will be established.