Technology needs to be introduced in Zambia’s school curriculum.

This is according to a parliamentary committee on education.

The committee has recommended that the Zambian government should introduce information and communications technology (ICT) in the curriculum in order to help boost the country’s education standard.

The committee also wants the Zambian government to embrace the use of what is dubbed a ‘ZEdupad’ in all schools.

A ZEdupad is a tablet computer being promoted by iSchool, a private company. The ZEdupad also contains thousands of multimedia lessons covering the entire Zambian primary school curriculum in English and eight local languages.

Committee chairperson Dr. Christopher Kalila said the ZEdupad tablet has proved to be a very useful tool in the education system in Zambia and as such the Zambian government should embrace the use of the tablets in all the schools.

“We need to move with time and we need to improve our learning methods and there is no other better ways to go rather than ICT in our schools,” Kalila said.

Other African countries, such as Kenya and South Africa, have also moved to introduce tablets into their schooling systems.