Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State has flagged off the construction of a Centre for Experiential Learning and Innovation as part of his administration’s sustainability plans for the Smart Green School system in the state.
The centre, which is situated at the Enugu State College of Education (Technical), Enugu and comprises 25 model classrooms, ICT hub, and an e-library, among other hi-tech sections and equipment will serve as a training and retraining hub to groom teachers in digital innovation, mechatronics, artificial intelligence, robotics, and such related areas to be able to function optimally in delivering knowledge in the state’s 260 smart schools.
Flagging- off the construction at the weekend, the governor who was represented by the Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ndubueze Mbah, said it was part of the priority of his administration to build smart human capital, upscale the workforce, produce children who would serve as the fourth industrial revolution, and achieve zero percent poverty headcount in the state
“The Experiential Learning and Innovation centre, as the governor envisioned it, is a centre responsible for making sure that all Smart teachers already experience the Enugu Smart Green Schools before they graduate from the Enugu College of Education Technical, ESCET, as students.
“Experiential learning is being practised in universities. So, Enugu is the first to introduce it in primary and post-primary schools.
“So, before you even send teachers for the teaching practice, they need to have spent time in the Centre for Experiential Learning and Innovation to develop those pedagogical skills that they need to succeed in the Smart Green School.
