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Digital literacy initiative benefits students

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Mooketsi Tekere
With the nation currently facing a poor standard of educational system that ‘churns’ out ill equipped youth for the workforce of the future, a ‘glimmer of hope’ seems to be on the horizon for our future leaders facilitated by the recent introduction of the innovative learning process known as coding. There are four contemporary pillars of learning, mainly listening, speaking , reading and writing .Coding is the new ABC of learning and is an intrinsic aspect of bringing today learners into the new age modern learning methodology that equips the student of today with the digital skills. This new digital language is fundamental to the new tech era that will be characteristic of the future. Students in the Francistown vicinity and others in the South East region will this week have the privilege of being empowered as well as having digital literacy and coding skills instilled in them , courtesy of Africa Code Week, a digital educational initiative that will be running across the African continent. In Botswana, in collaboration with a German based European multinational software corporation, Ngwana Entreprises became an implementing partner for African coded week several years ago. This digital skills development initiative was spearheaded by a…

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