How digital learning entices students to take up sciences

St Paul's Gekano Boys Secondary School students during a biology lesson on Tuesday. Digital learning in science subjects in the institution has boosted enrollment and performance. [Sammy Omingo, Standard]

Armed with a projector, a laptop and a laser pointer pen, Edwin Mogusu, a teacher of physics, is ready to start the day’s lesson.

It is a hot afternoon at St Paul’s Gekano Boys Secondary School in Nyamira County, and most students would easily doze off in the middle of a lesson. But Mr Mogusu is certain that he has the attention of all his students throughout the lesson.