“The
e-learning solutions that will be available to students and teachers will be
accessible 24/7 via tablets to be provided by Digicel. This means students and
teachers can work and study anytime and anywhere they want”
CEO of CSTS (Cyber
School Technology Solutions) Conrod Hanson, on the deal signed with Digicel to
provide subsidized Huawrei MediaPad Tablets with CSEC Course
Digicel
it seems is on a Tablet giveaway spree. They gave away some fifty six (56) Huawei Media Pads 7 Lite,
valued at some JA$1.1 million dollars to seven (7) East Kingston Schools back
in April 2013 as chronicled in my blog article
entitled “LIME
and Digicel both make Donations of Tablets to Preparatory and Primary Schools -
How Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark started a Love for Computer
Programming Languages in Jamaica”.
More
recently, they’ve repeated their charitable gift-giving again! Telecom Provider
Digicel has partnered with CSTS (Cyber School Technology Solutions) in a
program to package eight hundred (800) Tablets with CSEC (Common Secondary
Education Curriculum) Tutorial Material as stated in the article “Tutorials
on tablets”, published Monday, September 09, 2013, The Jamaica Observer
and “Online
tutorials to add to learning experience”, Published Monday September
9, 2013, The Jamaica
Gleaner.
Then
they made ninety (90) of these Tablets available to Hampton High in Malvern, St.
Elizabeth at a subsidized cost as stated in the article “Hampton
gets tablets courtesy of Digicel”, Published Monday
September 9, 2013, The
Jamaica Gleaner. Clearly it seems everyone is in a
giving mood with Tablets, as this represents the much-hoped for Corporate
Spirit I was hoping for where companies decided to pitch in to help Schools and
GOJ (Government of Jamaica) get Tablets with educational material preloaded.
This
as part of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science, Technology,
Energy and Mining’s push to get the e-Learning Project II moving ahead full
steam ahead as stated in my blog
article entitled “Minister
Paulwell gives Parliamentarians and 20,000 Students in 30 Schools Tablets-
Future in Science and Technology now rescued Indiana Jones and the Palace of
Doom”.
Already
another entity, this time the University of the West Indies, the originators of
Tablets for students that first began with Medical Science Students and
expanded to the rest of the University, had also made a similar gesture of
donating Tablets. This time it was the JC (Jamaica College) that were the
recipients of 7”
SmartTab Tablets from JL Mobile costing a mere US$200 pre-loaded
with sixteen (16) free CAPE (Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Exam) Tutorials.
The
JC Students were given the Tablets and Tutorial Material under an extension
of UWI (University of the West Indies)
TEST (UWI
Total eBook Solution Tablet) as reported originally in my
blog
article entitled “Jamaica
College given Tablets and 16 CAPE Books under extension of UWI TEST Project -
Sixth Form Students are Guinea Pigs for Tablets and e-books”.
My hope
is that this won’t be the last I’ll hear of Tablet donations by Universities
and Corporate entities. The GOJ needs all the help it can get to get students
in gear not only for exam preparations but also used to the idea of computing
as a medium for learning and as a skill as opposed to being something confined
to IT (Information Technology) Students. This will put them in good stead for
entering the World of Work!
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