Monday 29 September 2014

Queensland International School holds speech and prize giving day


By Benjamin Xornam Glover, TEMA
The Director-General of the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT, Mrs Dorothy Gordon has appealed to parents to understand the ins and outs technology and guide their children on to effectively utilized it to enhance the education of their wards.

"As technology is always changing and improving it gives us the opportunity to do much good as well as bad. How we use technology is based on our human nature and the power of technology for good is determined by our value system."

"As we prepare ourselves for 2030, technology will definitely play a major role. Our, founder Dr. Kwame Nkrumah put technology at the heart of our development strategy more than fifty years ago. Parents in the same way you would not let a small child travel alone and without guidance." she stressed

Mrs. Gordon gave the advice during the  Speech and Prize giving day of Queensland International School in Sakumono near Tema noted that children all over the world are using technology to learn in different ways adding that children all over the world are making use of online learning resources and other digital educational content to expand their knowledge.

KHADIJA
She narrated a story of Khadija Niazi, a 12-year old girl from a very average Pakistani family who found herself in Davos, sitting beside some of the worlds richest men, including the president of Standford University, the former Chairman of Microsoft Bill Gates.

Khadija, she said had been invited because sitting in Pakistan she had followed an on-line course in computing – Artificial Intelligence and then topped the exam, the same exam sat by top students in the USA.

ON LINE LEARNING
Mrs. Gordon said On-line learning has made available to many world-class courses for free from the internet. This gives people choices that they could never have imagined. She said it was very important that everyone made use of them.

BECOMING CREATORS
she said as digital technologies assume an increasing importance in the lives of many people, it was important that people do not only consume technology but give themselves the skills to create technology.
"It is great to see young people moving from being simply consumers of technology to actually creating technology. Children even in KG are learning to code. They use sites like Code Academy, learnscratch.org and blockly.org to start to learn programming. These resources make learning to programme just like playing games"

High Goals
Mrs Gordon advised the students to set high goals for education, choose their extra-curricula activities well since they help to develop their character.

"You could choose to spend all your time looking at the photos on your phone or tablet, watching TV or playing video games or worse. On the other hand you could explore educational content or develop your coding skills. You have a responsibility to yourself and to your future. Set yourself high goals." She said.

The Executive Director of QIS, Dr Isaac .K Adjei-Marfo noted that providing quality education to the youth of Ghana was the only way to influence the capacity of the young people to become more responsible adults equipped with the requisite knowledge, skills and attitude  which will enable them to integrate harmoniously into the world of work, social and cultural life.

He said QIS is very much aware that for any nation to prosper and make good progress, she needs educated, selfless, discipline and hardworking workforce hence have engaged well trained professional to try and inculcate these values in its pupils.
He however appealed to parents to complement the efforts of the teachers by offering the necessary guidance as well as monitoring.

The Headmaster of QIS, Mr Joseph T. Saki-Venyor said the school has over the years developed a comprehensive curriculum aimed at the total development of the child to prepare him/her for life and be able to cope with the rapidly changing scenes of life.

He said the academic performance of the students has been improving over the years with results been always 100 per cent adding that graduates are always placed mostly in Senior High School of their choice where they continue to excel
Mr Saki-Venyor said products of the school are pursuing academic disciplines of repute in top universities both within and outside the country.
He disclosed that going forward, the school looks to embark on a vigorous rebranding of the school aimed at taking it to greater heights and offer pupils quality international basic and high school education based on ICT and strong moral principles to ensure a holistic personality development.

Deserving students who excelled during the last academic term were presented with awards.
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Pix:
 
Nana Kofi Ofori Atta, who was adjudged most behaved students exchanging hand shakes with the dignitaries after picking his award
 
Naa Lamiokor Boye, a primary six pupil exchanging hand shakes with the dignitaries after picking and award
 
Master Samuel Adjei Sarfo, who picked 4 awards at the JHS 2 level exchanging hand shakes with the dignitaries after picking his award

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Benjamin Xornam Glover
Correspondent, Daily Graphic (GCGL).
Tema Office
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