Dr. Peter Mbah, Governor of Enugu State, has inaugurated the building of a Centre for Experiential Learning and Innovation as part of the Smart Green School system’s sustainability strategy.
The Smart Green School, which is located at the Enugu State College of Education (Technical), Enugu, and includes 25 model classrooms, an ICT hub, and an e-library, among other high-tech sections and equipment, will serve as a training and retraining hub for teachers in digital innovation, mechatronics, artificial intelligence, robotics, and other related areas so that they can optimally deliver knowledge in the state’s 260 smart schools.
Flagging off the construction of the Smart Green School at the weekend, the governor, who was represented by the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ndubueze Mbah, stated that it was a priority of his administration to build smart human capital, expand the workforce, produce children who would serve as the fourth industrial revolution, and achieve a zero per cent poverty rate in the state.
According to him:
“The Experiential Learning and Innovation Centre, as the governor envisioned it, is a centre responsible for making sure that all Smart teachers already experience the Enugu Smart Green Schools before they graduate from the Enugu College of Education Technical, ESCET, as students.
“Experiential learning is being practised in universities. So, Enugu is the first to introduce it in primary and post-primary schools.
“So, before you even send teachers for the teaching practice, they need to have spent time in the Centre for Experiential Learning and Innovation to develop those pedagogical skills that they need to succeed in the Smart Green School.
“Experiential learning is about supporting children in school to learn through practice. It is about moving away from a scenario where teachers just lecture to one in which our teachers can design projects that engage students in activities and problem-solving. So, through those projects, they can learn those concepts, internalise them, and use them to solve problems.
“So, it is tied to sustainable goals and we support our students and teachers to identify local problems and come up with solutions tying them to sustainable development goals,” he added.
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