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From the computer to the iPad, technology is revolutionizing how we work, play, socialize, and learn (sometimes all at once). In celebration of Computer Science Education Week, here are my tots on the matter.


https://www.nairaland.com/2039862/6-technologies-changed-education-forever

From the computer to the iPad, technology is revolutionizing how we work, play, socialize, and learn (sometimes all at once). In celebration of Computer Science Education Week, here are my tots on the matter.


https://www.nairaland.com/2039862/6-technologies-changed-education-forever

From the computer to the iPad, technology is revolutionizing how we work, play, socialize, and learn (sometimes all at once). In celebration of Computer Science Education Week, here are my tots on the matter.


https://www.nairaland.com/2039862/6-technologies-changed-education-forever

Guess Obj didn't mention this in his book!

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The founder of the Latter Rain Assembly, pastor Tunde Bakare has accused former President, Olusegun Obasanjo of killing students’ unionism in the country when he was the military Head of State in 1978.

Bakare, who was a running mate to Buhari in the last presidential election made the claim on Monday at the 2014 anniversary of the International Day of Students.

According to him, Obasanjo, as the then Head of State in 1978, used brute force to repress the students during the ‘Ali Must Go’ protest.
Some students were killed in the protest. One of them was Akintunde Ojo.

Delivering a paper titled, “Good Governance: Sustainability of Democracy, the Role of Students in the Forthcoming General Elections”, Bakare said it was unfortunate that students’ unionism had been hijacked by unserious students.

Recalling the history of students’ unionism from the colonial days, he noted that it suffered a fatal blow in 1978.
He said, “General Olusegun Obasanjo’s government ordered the brutal suppression of that protest. Live bullets were unleashed on protesting students. As we proceeded outside the University of Lagos main gate, I narrowly escaped death, as Akintunde Ojo, the young man standing just beside me, was gunned
down.
“Through that incident, Obasanjo carved his name on marble as a villain of democracy.

“I did not mince words when opportunity presented itself in November of 1978, when I pointed to his face and said, ‘This government possesses power without compassion, might without morality and strength without sight.’”

While arguing that students’ unionism had been hijacked by never-do- wells, he said the height of this fall was the conferment of the title “Defender of Democracy” on Obasanjo in 2005 by students’ body.

He said, “The apotheosis of the perfidious degeneration of students’ unionism occurred in 2005, when the National Association Nigerian Students decorated Gen. Obasanjo as a ‘Defender of Democracy.’ Yes, the same Obasanjo who masterminded the brutal repression of unarmed students who were merely registering their displeasure over hike in fees.” #irony!

Bakare also flayed the role played by students’ leaders in the botched
third term bid of Obasanjo. He said NANS shamelessly campaigned for Obasanjo’s life presidency agenda.


He said, “In essence, Obasanjo killed students’ unionism in Nigeria. As a
military Head of State, he killed National Union of Nigerian Students by
brutal repression and proscription.
“When Obasanjo returned as civilian president, he killed NANS and made it a shadow of itself. “Upon the foundation of corruption of students’ unionism, NANS has become weak and factionalised in subsequent administrations.”
He then called on the student body to embark on a journey of rebirth to
return to the good old days of student activism.

“You must rid yourselves of cultism and other self-destructive
tendencies and take back students’ unionism from hoodlums and
charlatans. (NAN)


Source: http://www.liveschoolnews.com.ng/obasanjo-almost-killed-me-as-a-unilag-student-tunde-bakare/


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Bigboyz32:
ur post is school. It gave me insights on what I hv been brooding over. tnx

Glad it helped

From the computer to the iPad, technology is revolutionizing how we work, play, socialize, and learn (sometimes all at once). In celebration of Computer Science Education Week, here are my tots on the matter.

1. Tablet computers: We all know how this has played a big role in adoption of computer devices this year. Every Mary, Amaka, Okafor and his neighbour no matter how not-well-todo is using a tablet. From the Introduction of the Opon-Imo (knowledge tablet) in Osun, we will see more of tablets in school used to deliver content and what have you.

I heard students were also using it for "forbidables" i.e #pornn

2. OCR: This means "optical character recognition". Remember when you scan a document, this is how the computer tries to recognize the words on the scanned doc picture.

Now remember when u snap Dorcas's note in class to copy it later. Imagine if you could just recognise the characters, copy and paste and print or save in your phone for later! It is possible!

3. Smart Watches: People in my school eh, fear them oh. Since they said don't carry ochuko or your phone into the hall, did they say don't carry your good ol' watch?

Smart guys are already using it like a phone on the wrist. Who says everything can't be used for good or bad #expo (but na punishment for dat kind small screen oh!)

4. Smart Communication Tools: Teachers are beginning to see the need to keep in touch with students out of the classroom in order to better achieve goals like assignments, making sure materials gets to all the class students, answering questions e.t.c

If this is not the case, then explain to me why has grown 120% within the last week!

5. E-examinations: Since I did CSC 112 in 100level, my lecturer (The school director of ICT) has been threatening us that very soon, we will start using the Internet for exams.

That was his business. E-exam must go with e-cheating for me, case no dey.

But if you are going to write jamb next year, I laugh at you in tongues. Because that extra-serious Jamb Registrar has warned that "any candidate not proficient in use of ICT should forget jamb". Am I lying? Google it!!!


6. Ah I forgot to mention it. The mother of them all - The Internet:

Make way for those who use Google in the exam hall. They can explain this better.


So breathen-in-class,



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“The job of a teacher is not to deliver information. It is to guide the
social process of learning. The job of a teacher is to inspire, to
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charix:
Nigeria is a country where everybody throws praises "he's a rich man, he's a rich man, let's have our cut of the wealth" without giving a fúck how he made the money in the first place.

Sorry oh. But how did he make his money?

rattlesnake:
thank u for admitting that "some" are criminals.... And tony elumelu is nothing but a false billionaire

Kudos. This is just jealousy Prove your point. How is he a criminal?

IVORY2009:
I meant frm scratch!!!

Guy, nobody starts from scratch

Ishilove:
It isn't just me. It's a team of really hardworking guys working with Seun to make NL more interesting.

I can almost predict that this state of Grace won't last long. People tend to abandon things when its becoming unnecessarily addictive. I think the Nairaland Team should visit http://Nirandfar.com for tutorials on user psychology and dopamine effects.

rattlesnake:
False

He's been trying to size up to the big boys using all manner of means

False

Fraudulent

Fraudster

Not everyone is a criminal. Try to make yours and stop back biting. it doesn't pay.

IVORY2009:
Can somebody tell me how he made is money? i know he was a formal bank MD "standard trust bank, to Uba Md,

Heirs Holdings. Did you not know he made $128million dolls just last year from his Nicon Investments?

https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/9305d5b0435c7a7b6dad6c01757733e8/280x425.jpg



Net Worth: $1 Billion (As of November 2014)

Age: 51

Source Of Wealth: investments, Self Made

Residence: Lagos, Nigeria

Citizenship: Nigeria

Marital Status: Married

Children: 5


Nigerian-born Tony Elumelu, one of Africa's most revered
business leaders, makes his debut on the Forbes list of Africa's
richest this year thanks to a variety of investments, including a
controlling interest in Transcorp, Nigeria's largest publicly-traded
conglomerate; a significant stake in the United Bank for
Africa;and an extensive portfolio of real estate across Nigeria,
among other assets.




This is a big source of encouragement to All Naija Youths that its possible to Make It without OIL MONEY, CORRUPTION OR RITUALS all at a relatively young age.


Congrats to him!!!!!!

Source: http://www.forbes.com/profile/tony-elumelu/


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Due to the recent changes by Mr. Seun, I have noticed I almost never left Nl today. Maybe partly because I had a thread on the Frontpage.

But that aside, I don't think am the only one sef. Looking at pages yesterday, when this craziness began, threads on the FP were averaging 10,000 views but around this evening, it has begun averaging 22,000!!!!!!

Also, it seems engagements has increased. (beware web-speak) Nairaland.com's bounce rate has dropped by about 200%, i.e from 88% bounce rate to 66.07% at the time of this post - according to SimilarWeb.com.

for those who don't know, Bounce Rate is how quickly people exit/vacate a site.

Also, average visitor counts has gone up from 7.5million to 7.6 million (also from similarweb.com)

Time spent on site has also increased!

How do I know these? I just checked Nairaland on Wednesday & Thursday (am a freak for stats)



The dopamine effect just set in for Nairaland. Hope people won't get tired.

So Mr. Seun, it seems whatever new gods you started serving are doing their job ( Hope its Jesus).


With the extra cash coming in hope Seun does not begin to look like this>>
https://hotels.ng/travel/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/fat_albert_hold_his_belly_up_by_mcsaurus-d5zbtul.jpg

So what do you guys think?

Source: Me!

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holatin:
good girl
But you stingy oooo, d thing no dey read meter now




are u a virgin ?

lol

This happened during my university days but I thought it’s best to share it
this post-examination period of universities in Nigeria.

One of my randy lecturers was always giving me ‘the look’ each time he
came to class. When I noticed that, I avoided every situation that might
make him request any form of private meeting with me.

One afternoon, I went out of the school premises to get lunch at a newly
opened restaurant. As I proceeded to pay at the counter, the waitress told
me someone had already taken care of my bills. I turned to acknowledge my
good samaritan and lo and behold, it was my lecturer. I put aside my
inhibitions and went to thank him. A short conversation ensued between us.

He offered to give me a lift but I politely turned him down. I instantly knew
sooner or later, I’ll have to pay for the rice and snacks.

Three weeks after, the lecturer called one evening and requested I come to
his office. I quickly soaked myself with anointing oil before obliging his
request. When I got into the office, he walked up to hug me despite my holy
body.


“But Sir…” “Shhh…don’t call me Sir, call me by my first name. I want us to be best friends”

“But Sir….how is that possible” I was mesmerised.

He released me from his grip and began admiring my body.

“You seem very flexible, I want you to dance for me”. Dbanj’s ‘fall in love’ was playing on his office stereo. The lecturer was about 6 feet in height and he had this irritating voice of chipmunk. Whenever he raised his voice, he sounded like Kim Kardashian. See me see wahala oh!

“No offence Sir, but you are old enough to be my father.” I spoke in a nonchalant way. My statement had angered him.

“If you are a child then why are you in the University? Get out of my office. Foolish girl.” I scurried to the door immediately. I didn’t need a soothsayer to tell me I
was in deep shit.

The following week was our examination week. Three days before his paper,
he sms’d me on three topics I should strictly focus my study on.

https://hotels.ng/travel/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Fotolia_52847492_Subscription_Monthly_M.jpg
His sms had me looking at my phone like, awww….
this man is truly a best friend.


D-day finally came and I couldn’t wait to scatter his paper. When we were
issued his questions, one look at the tough questions had me concluding>

https://hotels.ng/travel/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Orezi-¹º¹-Menaf.jpg

He had tricked me. Twenty strange questions to answer all. All questions
had children and grandchildren.


https://hotels.ng/travel/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Long-necked-student-cheating.jpg

I adjusted my neck in examination mode but that didn’t help either.
It occurred to me that all our papers were different types. The lecturer must
have done that deliberately to mess me up.

I busted into an uncontrollable laughter. A laughter of failure…
The shit of paper I used in revising were in my pockets. The urge to cheat was too strong. I didn’t know when I pulled it out.

That was when I heard,

“Give it to me!”

The no-nonsense supervisor in charge suddenly appeared by my table. I
threw the paper into my mouth and began chewing.

https://hotels.ng/travel/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/demon1.jpg

She patiently waited for me…


When I couldn’t swallow the bitter paper, I vomited it into her palms and
busted into tears.

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My tears angered her more…

My blank answer sheets were forcefully taken from me and I was walked out
of the hall. On my way back to the hostel, I bumped into the lecturer and
explained everything to him.

He consoled me with,
“Get a hotel for us so we could go there to discuss how you are going to pass my course.” Upon hearing that, my tears soaked up to my shoes”.

Three days after, I took a bottle of wine and entered into his office like this.

https://hotels.ng/travel/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/fat_albert_hold_his_belly_up_by_mcsaurus-d5zbtul.jpg


“For the sake of my baby, help me Sir.” I pleaded

“My friend, how did you get pregnant in 3 days? Are you the Virgin Mary?
You think I have time for games here?” He admonished me.

My class representative even pleaded I am a witch but his mind was made
up on me. He was bent on taking me to his bed at all costs just because I
mistakenly ate his meatpie and rice.

That was when I went spiritual. I went into a sober mood and began
praying. God in his infinite mercies answered my prayers. Within a few days,
peace had been restored to my life. When school had reopened, the lecturer
was laid off with 6 other lecturers. I also had a C in his course. This was a
course I submitted a blank sheet. That incident remains one of the biggest
miracle of my life.


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bhaliz44:
Nice piece

thanks

informat101:
Thanks op u just inspired me with the efforts do not always bring the best results but @ least one tried.

glad to be of help

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There are many reasons a student can lose focus in school.


For now, maybe these inspirational quotes on learning and hard work can do the trick.


1. “If you really look closely, most overnight
successes took a long time.” – Steve Jobs

With the likes of Mark Zuckerberg being the poster boy of drop-out
billionaires, it’s easy to see why many students seem to think that they no
longer need school to succeed in life. But closer inspection shows that their
path to success is muddier than one would expect. And besides, we can’t all
be Mark Zuckerberg. We can’t all be Steve Jobs. But students can try to
pave their own way to success and school can help with that.



2. “Every child is gifted. They just unwrap their
packages at different times.” – Anonymous

Students can’t help but compare themselves with the top notchers in class.
While some obviously spend a lot of time studying, some students barely
study and still manage to get good grades. Then there are students, who no
matter how hard they try still scramble to get decent grades. They need to
understand that students have different modes and strengths in learning, and
sometimes formal education doesn’t work for many students. But every
student has a talent and a skill that need time to develop.



3. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways
that won’t work.” – Thomas A. Edison

It’s easy to get disheartened with a failed Math exam, but it’s just one exam
out of many. A low grade for an English essay may be discouraging, but
there’s always a next time. What students need to keep in mind is that
getting bad grades and making mistakes can only lead to further learning.
There’s always room for growth and time to correct their mistakes. One
failure doesn’t mean it’s endgame already.



4. “You can do anything, but not everything.” – Anonymous

With so many options for young minds to explore and wander, students are
often pressured to be great in everything. But that’s not something mere
mortals can do. There’s nothing wrong with being a Math wizard and finding
difficulty penning a coherent essay. What students can do is to focus on
what they’re good at and once they’ve mastered this skill, they can go ahead
and try other things. They’ll feel burned out if they take too much activities
on their plate all at the same time.



5. “You measure the size of the accomplishment
by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach
your goals.” – Booker T. Washington


There’s a reason why a B+ in a subject you find difficult seems a lot sweeter
than the easy A+ in your PE class. When you work hard for something, an
excellent result may not be quick to attain but even a satisfactory result is
enough to send students in pure bliss.



6. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky

Students are often disheartened by bad results, but giving up without even
finishing their tasks means they won’t even get any result, besides a failing
mark. It’s always better to give learning a shot before deeming it as
something they’ll be bad at. They may fail the first time, but they’ll
eventually get better at it.



7. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the
chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield

To reiterate the earlier point, students miss out more when don’t even give it
a try. Many students have this mindset that they’ll fail anyway, so why exert
an effort in studying? But the fact that they don’t even open their books and
rarely listen to discussions means that they didn’t even bother giving it a
shot. Efforts may not always reap the best rewards, but it’s better than
none.



8. “Tough times never last. But tough people do.” – Dr. Robert Schuller

School is just a part of life. It’s just a phase as crucial as it may be, and
there’s more learning that will happen once you graduate from your alma
matter. Don’t think that it’s the end of the line, because you’re just starting.
School may toughen you up, but you need that to survive.




So students, keep your chin up because school isn’t the be-all and end-all
of your life. The difficulties will pass and you only need to hold on.


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Source:: http://www.edudemic.com/discouraged-students/

Chiscomax:
but I like facebook

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Bogus indeed! Haters


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SuperMartins:
Really nice..the rate at which people fear poverty these days..Lolzz

True talk;


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Texykool:
.

Guy how far na?

Seun that owns this platform's namesake - Gideon Oluwaseun Afolayan lost his father, Pa James Afolayan when he was just seven years old. His mother was the youngest of many wives, and he, the last of the six children from his mother.

The 27-year-old was raised by his eldest sister and her daughter, who provided him with the best education they could afford. This propelled him to graduate with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.90 from the Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State last Saturday, beating 325 others to win the overall best graduating student prize.

Sharing his story, the graduate of Physics and Electronics, with a deep hatred for poverty, declared that it made him graduate as the best.

“When I say poverty made me graduate as the best, I do not mean I was poor as a student, but I hate poverty with a passion and would not want it close to me. So, wherever I find myself I strive for excellence. That was why all through my primary, secondary, polytechnic and university education, I always aspired to be at the top,” he said.

He came to live with his elder sister after the death of his father. “I lived with her in Zaria, and then her daughter also took me away from her due to God’s favour and good character. They asked if I would come and live with them and I agreed. God has raised me from one level of grace to the other since then. From Abuja we came down to Lagos and God planted me in BellsTech.” He said.

“Before I got admission into Bells, I asked God what he has for me because I believe in living my life based on specific target, God kept unveiling opportunities for me. I first had the passion to top my department. So, in the first semester God helped me with that and I had a 4.85. In the second semester David Abejide, who is my very good friend came to me one evening and told me there was a scholarship available, but the condition is to top my college. So, I continued with my hardworking life style and I topped my college with a 4.95 and got the scholarship. Sixty per cent of my fee was paid by the school for the year.

“After that I asked myself what other height I could scale and at the last convocation I told myself I would be the next.

Afolayan advised undergraduates to be disciplined, saying discipline determines the height everyone will get to on earth. He hopes to further his studies at the prestigious Cambridge University.


(Seems there is something good following the Oluwaseun name. Go consider am for my pickin wen i marry.)

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Source: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/11/poverty-made-best-bells-tech-university-best-graduate/

Perfectwazobia:
What is written on that car is 'BEST TEACHER 2012' and this is Nov 2014...kai date don change?




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Picture mistake issue. Got the pics from another site.

AceOfDiamonds:
Excellent...this sort of motivation is necessary if you want improvement in the educational sector.

Yeah, Exactly....

StealthyMe:
Its a wonderful development! At least,it'll spur the teachers and enable them teach at their bests...

You are On point

Bridgetown:
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