Microsoft Asia: Overcoming All Odds - Celebrating the Chalkboard IT Teacher

Microsoft, a technology company, demonstrated its dedication to empowering educators to provide new generations with knowledge for the digital age across Asia by celebrating a teacher whose work had gone viral on Facebook.

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Brand: Microsoft AsiaAgency: IN.FOM

In February 2018, a Facebook post featuring a teacher in Ghana using a chalkboard to teach students how to use Microsoft Word went viral with over 10,000 Facebook Likes and close to 5,000 shares.

That teacher was Richard Appiah Akoto, who was lauded internationally for his efforts in teaching his students about ICT, despite having no equipment in his school to do so.

Within days of the story breaking, we invited Akoto to visit Singapore and share his story at Microsoft's annual educator conference, Education Exchange...

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