Indigenous CXC materials being produced

By November 2014, the students of the Caribbean will have more indigenous learning materials to use for their educational development.

Through teacher-shared experiences via two media: Video and print, more knowledge will be available to students at the Caribbean Examination Council (CXC) level.

However, the challenge with reaching teachers across the island chain is accessing iPads for distribution. Therefore, a call is being made for Corporate Caribbean to provide sponsorship to make this initiative a reality.

Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science,
Mathematics and Physics, UWI Cave Hill Campus, Dr. Janak Sodha,
says that ‘The Caribbean Teachers on: Mathematics’
should be available next November.

This was revealed by Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, Dr. Janak Sodha.

He disclosed recently at the Barbados Ministry of Education, Science, Technology and Innovation, in a brief interview, that on the heels of creating the UwiTube App, providing material for CXC students taking Mathematics, now while in the process of compiling videos for the English Language curriculum, a book series in on the way.

Hopeful, Dr. Sodha said, “The Caribbean School Teachers on: Mathematics book will be on Amazon next November”.

But, the text which will be the first in the ‘The Caribbean School Teachers on: Mathematics’ series is to be no ordinary book. He has taken to calling it an AppBook, because the students will have the textbook to use in the classroom, and through the free App online they can access the educational accompanying videos.

Dr. Sodha says that is the next step, “bringing the Caribbean teachers’ experiences in print. The textbooks would be us [the teachers]”.

His hope is to see more of the private sector throughout the Caribbean providing funding and making donations to assist with the purchase of more iPads. He appealed, “Please, private sector, if you’re out there, we need iPads.”

He urged, that the reach and success of the programme would increase if they had more iPads to distribute to teachers in other islands, such as St. Lucia, Grenada and more, “because it’s not The Barbados Teachers, it’s The Caribbean Teachers”.

He assured contributing teachers that the book will be multi-authoured and gave further incentive to Corporate Caribbean, stating that their contributions can be made public via logo placement in the videos and the book, “if they wish”. (KG)