Resh­ma Ra­goonath

Ma­haraj lament­ed that al­though T&T, through the min­istry, had been meet­ing most of the mil­len­ni­um goals, such as uni­ver­sal ed­u­ca­tion, pri­ma­ry and sec­ondary, fund­ed ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion, trans­port and nu­tri­tion for stu­dents, some­thing re­mained miss­ing.This miss­ing el­e­ment, she said, was found through com­bin­ing tra­di­tion­al teach­ing meth­ods and com­put­er tech­nol­o­gy in the class­room.She en­cour­aged ed­u­ca­tors to har­ness the en­er­gy in the stu­dents by en­gag­ing them with in­no­v­a­tive class­room ac­tiv­i­ties and lessons plans which in­clude tech­nol­o­gy since this was need­ed to en­gage stu­dents of the 21st cen­tu­ry.Mi­crosoft gen­er­al man­ag­er, Trinidad and To­ba­go, Latin Amer­i­ca and East­ern Caribbean, Pradeep Ra­man, said: "As ed­u­ca­tors you have the pow­er to un­leash the po­ten­tial of our fu­ture lead­ers."