ITGEN SOLUTIONS

The fifth edition of the Fastest Finger Typing Competition (FFC) and maiden edition of ITGEN Creative Challenge (ICC) was held on Saturday 23rd of June, 2018 at Sweet Sensation hall, Opebi, Ikeja, Lagos State. The Competition brought an amiable ambience with the objective to search for creative minds and fastest typist amongst participating pupils. It was indeed a mesmerizing event which would be etched in our memory for a very long time. Over 100 participants from both primary and Secondary schools in Lagos and Ogun States took part in the competition. Schools in attendance were:  Lea Valley School, Iju, Lagos UTOL Schools, Arepo, Ogun State Honeyland Schools, Ipaja Honeyland Schools, Command Grande Oakbridge Montessori school, Lekki Vicsum Private School, Omole phase2, Bethany hall school, Ogudu GRA, Lagos Chessington Montessori school, Agege, Lagos Witfield Montessori School, ogba, Lagos Bright Destiny School ,Ilasamaja, Lagos JOEN College, Isolo, Lagos Dawn...

Even as schools continue to invest heavily in technology, we are still staring down what experts call the “device gap,” where students from lower-income backgrounds don’t have the same digital access as their middle class peers. For students and classrooms, that divide can have real impact. In a recent survey, 67 percent of teachers in transitional kindergarten through third grade say they have at least on one occasion not assigned homework that requires technology or digital media because they think their students do not have access at home—a percentage that increases in schools serving more low-income students. For the survey, which was conducted online,  information were collected regarding young children’s use of technology specific to home and school settings, and also explored the connection between home and school technology use. Complementary to the above findings, 40 percent of parents report that home technology challenges make it hard for their children to keep up w...

Classrooms where students are “thriving,” foster connections and friendships between students that build self-assuredness, giving them the confidence to take risks and the conviction that they can learn the material. Educators who lead successful lessons also know how to weave play into their classes while exhibiting a zeal for their subject, and for teaching in general. A passion for teaching is contagious. Students almost instinctively know when educators have a love for not only the subject matter — whether that’s math or history — but also their own jobs. This joy spread throughout a classroom, producing happier, even more playful students who are willing to take risks as they learn, seeing the experience as fun, rather than fraught with stress. Administrators can’t write passion into curriculum. But they can encourage educators to pursue the things that bring them happiness — both out of the classroom and inside those four walls as well. Teacher enthusiasm may do more tha...

Experts argue over what the job market will look like in 10 or 20 years’ time, but they all agree it is changing, nearly half of the nearly 1,900 experts surveyed by the Pew Research Center said they "envision a future in which robots and digital agents have displaced significant numbers of both blue- and white-collar workers." As school struggle to prepare students for such an uncertain future, school leaders should remember public education has always been about creating good citizens, not just good workers. School face a number of challenges in preparing students for jobs that may not even be on the horizon yet. Repetitive jobs, such as factory work or jobs in the service industry are more likely to disappear and will be replaced by jobs requiring more technical skills, some say. Despite the uncertainty, confusion and fear of a future where everyone is subservient to evil robot overlords, some common-sense truths remain. The fact that computers will play a big role ...

As schools adopt digital tools and technology solutions, educators should pay careful attention to the risks these innovations bring to students. Entering information anywhere online — whether a child’s name or age — means that data can be accessed by others, and even sold. Keeping students’ information protected — and private — is a very real concern. The current trend to personalize or tailor curriculum to a child’s specific learning needs through online classes brings additional concerns. Studies are inconclusive as to the effectiveness of online education as compared to classes taught face-to-face, says Ravitch. Schools, worried that their students are falling behind, may also be eager to invest in technology designed for the educational space. Yet those budget lines are courted by so-called ed tech companies, eager for the funds. Technology is then brought into schools, without any planning on how they’ll be adopted in classrooms. The danger, then, is the tools growing ob...

Ask any teacher about teaching about a controversial topic, and most will tell you to avoid it at any cost. School administrators hate controversy and will often discourage teachers from discussing hot topics in their classrooms at all. Teachers routinely get fired or reprimanded for opening discussion in their classroom about ideas that some may take issue with. Teaching subjects like art, literature, theater, and even history and science, can be fraught with difficulty, as teachers navigate minefields of potentially offensive ideas and images. And since today’s teachers often have less protection than teachers in the past, allowing controversy into the classroom can come with truly nightmarish consequences. But in this day in age, when even the most high-ranking officials are saying and doing inappropriate things in the public eye, when our nation is starkly divided and intolerance creates a constant "us-versus-them" attitude among social groups, now is exa...

Its a New Term....New Year....with New Goals!! We welcome all pupils in our partner schools back to the New Term.