Ghanaian teacher goes viral with ‘blackboard PC’

Richard Appiah Akoto teaches computing - without a computer

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A teacher from Ghana has received worldwide praise after a photo of him showing his students how to use Microsoft Word on a blackboard went viral.

Richard Appiah Akoto, who teaches information and computer technology (ICT), shared the photo of himself using multi-coloured chalk to recreate a computer screen as his students copied it into their notebooks.

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