A PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE EDUCATIONAL FILM FASAHAR SADARWA DON YARA (ICT4KIDS) HOLDS AT CITAD The Centre for Information and Technology and Development (CITAD) today Wednesday 17th December 2014 held a Press Conference on an Educational Film for children titled Fasahar Sadarwa Don Yara (ICT4KIDS) that they recently produced. The press conference took place at CITAD conference hall. Media houses (Print and Electronic) attended and at the end of the event, the film was exhibited for the press and other audience to input their observations and ask questions. Below is the draft of the media release: MEDIA RELEASE ON ICT4KIDS FILM By Sufyan Lawal Kabo, Media Officer, CITAD Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have become integral and accepted part of everyday life for most people. Technology is increasing in importance in people’s lives and it is expected that this trend will continue, to the extent that technological literacy will become a functional requirement for people’s work, social, and personal lives. The creative use of information and communication technology (ICT) in education has the capacity to enhance the teaching and learning. Considering this, the Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) deemed it necessary to bring down this ICT knowledge to the level of children for them to grasp it at an early stage of life. It therefore produced a film titled Fasahar Sadarwa Don Yara (ICT4Kids). CITAD, being an ICT-based organization decides to use the film medium in educating children because the use of film as a global education resource is expanding due to wide-reaching developments in technology. Film as a medium has been in existence since the development in the late nineteenth century of cameras for moving pictures, and recently films have been available for personal and formal educative use. Educational films have been used in classrooms as an alternative to other teaching methods. We live in a culture dominated by television, and other visual media. Consequently, most children nowadays are more geared to audiovisual rather than written forms of expression and communication. The film Fasahar Sadarwa don Yara (ICT4kids) provides education on ICTs for children using illustrations that spark the quest for learning ICT skills for those aged between 7 to 16 years. The film also provides children with opportunities to use modern technology to enhance their learning in all subjects. Conceived as a serial, this is the first of the episodes to be produced and others will subsequently follow. In this concluded part, the children learn about the history of the computer, its different parts, functions, uses and the types of computers as well as the various professional callings that people could aspire in the information technology sector. Created in an atmosphere that foster learning, combining emotional appeal and funny effects, it is meant to make the children grasp the concept of the computer as an indispensable tool. The film is produced to serve the following purposes: + Educate children for tomorrow’s world, in order that they will have a valued role to play in the development of a caring, supportive and technologically advancing society. + Gain the skills that will underpin the ICT capability they will need in their future lives. + Use ICT to support the pupils’ learning and personal development in all curriculum areas. + Develop children who will be confident users and critical evaluators when interacting with ICT. + Provide parents and teachers with the tools and expertise that allows them to facilitate pupil learning. + Implement an ICT scheme of work which demonstrates ICT as a process and ensures progression and continuity from the foundation stage to secondary school stage. + Provide pupils with access to ICT learning resources which promote the development of ICT capability and the use of ICT to find out and explore the world they live in. + To encourage government and individuals to assist in deploying ICT equipment in both rural and urban schools. The film is produced Hausa language with the aim of demystifying the jargons of ICT for easy understanding by children. It is expected that teachers can use it as an active learning tools for computer studies in basic level of the education curriculum. The film will be launched simultaneously in Abuja, Kano, Dutse and Bauchi in mid January next year. Thank you.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:14:36 +0000
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