Ghana’s Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia has handed over the first of 350,000 laptops under the 'One Teacher One Laptop' programme in fulfilment of the government's pledge to equip Ghana's teachers with the requisite ICT skills to prepare the next generation for the fourth industrial revolution. Under the initiative, the government is to provide every teacher in Ghana, from Kindergarten to the Senior High School level, with a laptop preloaded with educational materials and with access to an e-library equipped with books recommended by the GES on the various subjects.
The materials can be accessed online or offline, and with free Wi-Fi available in 722 Senior High Schools across the country, access to resources available on the internet is expected to aid research, teaching and learning. The state would take up 70 percent of the cost of the laptop, while the teacher makes up the difference. The laptop, however, becomes the personal property of the teacher and serves the benefit of providing a tool for developing the teacher's professional and personal capacity. The laptops would also help in the field of assessment. The filling of School-Based Assessment, report cards, cumulative records, and the building of learners' individual portfolios should become easier if each teacher owns a laptop.
