Kenya Women Teachers Association CEO Benta Opande now wants the government to revive a project to procure laptops for schools.
Opande says the trends and dynamics in the world should allow students to access digital education services.
"If I were given a chance, I would bring back the laptops project for our kids, because technology is here to make education more accessible for everyone," Opande said.
She was speaking on February 25 when she launched a triple digital program for female teachers.
Opande also urged teachers to be part of the journey to digital migration.
"Teachers can not carry 100 textbooks to go to class, but only by a click of a button you will get all textbooks in the orange book," Opande said.
Through a recent pact, members will apply for laptop loans and choose a suitable payment schedule.
The gadgets come with a pre-installed Teachers Service Commission website and curriculum designs with more than 100 textbooks.
The Digital Literacy Program, popularly known as the school laptops project, was among former President Uhuru Kenyatta's pet projects when he came to power in 2013.
The Sh24.6 billion laptop project was touted as the answer to the missing piece of digital skills in Kenyan schools.
It wasn’t until 2016 that the project was fully conceptualized with the government boasting at the time that it had supplied 95 per cent of learners in Class 1 with laptops.
The narrative quickly changed soon after and the talk was that learners would be given tablets. This later changed to digital labs.
In a presentation before Parliament's Education committee in March 2019, headteachers outlined the reason behind the failure of the laptop project.
Lack of funding, lack of electricity, lack of teacher training and lack of storage for the gadgets emerged as the main reasons.
