IT to be available at all edn instts: Nahid
The government has planned to make information technology available at all educational institutions in phases to make new generation efficient in IT in the country, said Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday.
As part of the plan, the government has taken initiatives to introduce multimedia classroom in the country's 20,500 educational institutions, he said while speaking at a function organised to distribute multimedia equipment at Teachers Training College in the capital.
Under a Tk 306 crore project titled "Introduction of ICT at Secondary and Higher Secondary Level", the educational institutions including high schools, madrasas and colleges will get a laptop, an internet modem and a multimedia projector each with digital contents.
Nurul Islam Nahid handed over a laptop, an internet modem and speaker to each of 100 heads of educational institutions.
The instruments will also be provided to other institutions gradually, and multimedia projectors will be given later.
The minister hoped that the multimedia classrooms will change the existing teaching-learning process at the country's educational institutions and will help making an IT-efficient generation.
"This generation will build desired Bangladesh," he said.
Teachers who got training on creating digital contents are the architects of the building the IT-efficient generation, he added.
Nahid said teachers at the institutions are being provided training so that they can make digital contents in their classroom.
A blog has also been created so that the teachers can share the digital contents among themselves, he added.
Education secretary Kamal Abdul Naser Chowdhury, Director General of Direc-torate of Secondary and Higher Education Prof Noman-ur-Rashid, and director of the project Abul Kalam Azad also spoke.
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