DOHA: The Supreme Education Council (SEC) has launched the first phase of its e-bag project that will be implemented in 10 Independent schools.
The project aims to provide all students and teachers of Independent schools with a computer along with educational aids and applications that conform to the national curriculum standards.
The project is an extension of the e-learning project that took off last academic year to provide an electronic environment at schools and train teachers, students and their parents to get accustomed to e-learning.
Consultations as regards procedures and introduction of the scheme at the start of the second semester of the current year were held with the launch managers and coordinators of 10 Independent schools in preparation for implementation of the project.
The schools included in the first phase are: Al Manar Model School for Boys, Atika Primary School for Girls, Ibn Khaldun Preparatory School for Boys, Abu Baker Preparatory School for Boys, Hamza bin Abdul Muttalib Preparatory School for Boys, Zainab Preparatory School for Girls, Ruqaya Preparatory School for Girls, Al Wakra Preparatory School for Girls, Tariq Ibn Ziyad Secondary School for boys and Al Risala Secondary School for Girls.
A recent meeting of school representatives chaired by Amal Al Kuwari, Director of Information Technology Department at SEC discussed all technical aspects and the software to be used by students in their devices and parents’ role in assisting their children in using those devices properly and the way they can control Internet content for their kids.
Ismail Abdul Baqi Shams, owner of Abu Baker School, said that the computer would only be an aid to textbooks, not a substitute for them.
According to him, the project will help lighten the schoolbag burden.
Maryam Noman Emadi, Principal of Ruqaya School for Girls, said that her school was one of the first institutions to have introduced e-learning.
She added that the school has started training its employees followed by senior teachers and then junior ones in the use of Internet contents and websites.
The Peninsula
