TECHNOLOGY, TEACHING & LEARNING
Regional Educators Encouraged to Embrace Innovation
E ducators across the Eastern Caribbean are being encouraged to embrace innovation and technology in the classrooms, amid concerns that teachers are reverting to the traditional, prepandemic methods of teaching. Addressing a meeting of the Eastern Caribbean Joint Board of Teacher Education , Director of the School of Education at The UWI, Cave Hill Campus Professor Joel Warrican said the education systems in the subregion are ripe for innovation. However, he noted that while the COVID-19 pandemic has emphasised that fact, many people
are unwilling or unable to deviate from the familiar, despite their reliance on technology during the last two years when schools were forced to transition to online teaching in an effort to contain the spread of the virus. “Traditional approaches to teaching are still prevalent, even when in the presence of technology, which since the late 1990s, we were told would revolutionise teaching and learning making schooling more student-centered, encouraging greater student engagement and independent learning,” Warrican told the audience last November. “Since the waning of the pandemic and the return to so-
Professor Joel Warrican Director, School of Education The UWI, Cave Hill Campus
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