Digital technologies can boost literacy

The digital world provides immense connectivity, networking and learning opportunities for students, youth and teaching professionals. It also helps impart knowledge to children living in far-flung areas of the country.

This was stated by The Devcom-Pakistan Executive Director Munir Ahmed while addressing the students of the Islamabad Model College for Girls at a ceremony held to mark the World Literacy Day.

Munir Ahmed said that digital technologies can prove to be instrumental in attracting and educating out-of-school children while replacing costly books with better-equipped devices.



“Children with classroom-phobia can also be intrigued if we use cartoon clips, animated lessons, and colourful graphics and musical rhymes composed in regional languages. We need to think out of the box and adopt innovative practices to increase literacy in Pakistan,” he said.

He said that faulty data collection techniques and exaggerated statistics presented by the government was not a true reflection of the situation.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 10^th, 2017.