THE Dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Computer Design, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa, Professor Johannes Cronje, has said that technological resources abound around us which can be used to enhance teaching and many teachers and lecturers are yet to make use of the resources.

Professor Cronje said this while delivering lessons on e-learning at a workshop entitled, “Effective and Efficient Teaching with Technology,” at the University of Ilorin auditorium.

He said that rather than order students to put away their mobile phones, they should be told to switch on their mobile phones in class.

According to the don, who said that he had been using the mobile technology to teach five years before his university introduced e-learning, the mobile phone can be used to encourage primary school pupils to do their home works by sending them questions through text messages or by reminding them of assignments and motivating them with promise of prizes for prompt submission of assignments.

He also said that low class participation among some students, which was caused by reticence, was tackled through the use of  a twitter, a social network website.

He said that while he continued  to teach in class, students posted questions on the site or through text messages which were projected on screen in class.

According to the renowned education technologist, good teaching is one that engages the students in activities and learning should be more students-centred.

The professor said that a lot of knowledge was available online for students to access but most students would only copy from websites but this he said, could also be tackled by making students not only get information from the websites but to also review the sites.

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