Transferring from blackboard to smart boards is not digitization of education: Minister

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Colombo, June 17 (Daily Mirror) - Digitization of education is not just transferring from the blackboard to smart boards, Education Minister Susil Premajayantha said.

He said 2,500 smart boards will be provided to all the leading schools in the country by between August and September during the first phase.

Within three years all schools will be digitized and connected to one network to provide friendly educational opportunities, he said.

Minister Premajayantha said that teachers should also be prepared for this and teacher's handbooks related to the teacher training has been prepared by experts and 7,500 teachers will be trained in the initial round.

According to these education systems, which have been designed while taking into account the new world education trends, children will have the opportunity to get their first degree at the age of 21, postgraduate at the age of 23 and doctorate at the age of 27.

He also said that only science graduate teachers are expected to be sent to schools from 2028.

Comments - 7

Unnecessarily Having Ceremonies and Plaque Installations Monday, 17 June 2024 06:23 AM

Why need opening ceremony with wall plaques? This is not a one time thing but an on going process. The funds used to have these official ceremonies can be diverted to more equipment being provided to the students or in other cases the residents. Stop this mentality of installing plaques at unnecessary events.

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Jaffna Logic Monday, 17 June 2024 08:13 AM

The character of the exams hasn’t changed for centuries, it is the same. The questions appear in printed papers and the students “perform the exams” by writing answers to the questions using their longhands and pens/pencils. Apart from any possible use of pocket calculators there is no computers or any electronic gears used by the students in the exams. So from a psychological perspective how could teaching on electronic smart boards is going to prepare students to do the same traditional exams any better than learning from traditional blackboards. Actually it is bound to have negative impact. To fight a battle in snow you don’t train the soldiers in a desert.

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H J Monday, 17 June 2024 11:32 AM

Wow !, Mesmerising !

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L Jaya Monday, 17 June 2024 08:31 AM

This Minister always going off track. He trying to exalt himself. We should be pity on him. Example, Sajith provided smart boards under the program called Sakwala to for easy learning, improve spelling, identify objects in English etc. This in not a digitisation program.

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Parent Monday, 17 June 2024 10:07 AM

Glad you realised that switching from blackboard to smart board is not digitising. First Please build some toilets, repair roofs, fix the collapsing walls etc etc in schools in the rural areas.

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joshua Monday, 17 June 2024 12:36 PM

we know that

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Shera Monday, 17 June 2024 07:50 PM

He is a good education minister who is trying to upgrade the system. I hope the teachers cooperate do their part to learn how to use it. The smart board is an excellent tool if it can be used the right way. I have used it in the classroom for several years. It needs to be hooked up to a laptop, teachers have to make powerpoint slides, needs electricity, maintenance and occasional troubleshooting. Not sure how savvy the teachers are to adapt to this technology in the classroom.

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