Lagos State Government has charged teachers in the state’s public schools to use technology to address the problem

 
    The Lagos State Government has charged teachers in the state’s public schools to use technology to address the problem of use of obsolete textbooks in schools.

   Commissioner for Establishments, Training and Pensions, Dr. Benson Oke said this yesterday at the opening ceremony of a 3-day training programme tagged: “Teachers Instructors,” organized by the Lagos State Government in collaboration with MessrsProswiftcare Trainers held at LCCI Training Centre in Ikeja, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.
   According to him, technology could help in addressing one of the most urgent problems in schools today, which “is the problem of reliance on obsolete textbooks that are not regularly updated.
  Oke said teaching had become easier and yet, more difficult because of the availability of communications technology, stressing that while some forms of these technologies might constitute distractions, there was broad consensus that, if properly harnessed, the adoption of communications technology in an educationalinstitutionis advantageous in a number of ways.