By DAVID MUCHUNGUH More by this AuthorLearners in primary and secondary schools have shunned online content that the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) has been offering since schools closed in March, opting to learn through other platforms, according to a recent survey. Magoha praised contentEducation Cabinet Secretary George Magoha has on many occasions praised the KICD content but the report shows many learners are shunning it. The survey that got responses from 24,053 shows that more girls than boys have been using online learning platforms. Close to half of the learners reported that they mostly used their mothers’ phones (46.5 per cent) to access learning content as opposed to asking for their fathers’ phones (17.3 per cent). Twenty-two per cent of the subscribers surveyed said they used their own phones with five per cent using their siblings’.

Source: Daily Nation August 05, 2020 04:45 UTC