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00:08When the new school term opens next week, this is what more students will be confronted with,
00:13a new wave of digital education as the Ministry of Education launched six new learning resource
00:19centers with this being part of their mandate to strengthen the quality of education for teachers
00:25and students alike. Dr. Peter Smith's chief education officer hailed the latest innovation
00:31in digital education as a very important one. This expansion is significant because good teaching
00:40is strengthened when teachers have access to a range of appropriate resources. No two classrooms
00:50are exactly alike. No two groups of students enter a lesson with exactly the same level of
01:00understanding. Dr. Smith said this was a critical platform for students in the future. We want
01:07students who can use digital tools, not only to consume information, but to investigate, create,
01:16communicate, solve problems, and learn independently. Education Minister Dr. Michael Dowlath also hails this
01:25as the way to go for curriculum support, expanding to six subject areas to benefit students in forms one
01:32and two. We are launching a new way of thinking about education in Trinidad and Tobago. It's a way of
01:40thinking that recognizes that learning must not be confined to a single textbook, a single lesson, a single location,
01:49or a single method of instruction. Most importantly, it is grounded in an unwavering belief that every child can learn
02:00with the right support. Minister Dr. Dowlath said that education must be adaptive to reach every child and
02:09it must become more than a source of entertainment or distraction. We must help our young people to use technology
02:17to learn, to
02:20create, to investigate, to solve problems, and to expand the possibilities that are available to them.
02:29So that digital education cannot simply mean taking the same lesson that we have always taught and placing it on
02:39a screen.
02:40It must mean thinking more carefully about how students engage with information, how teachers support different types of learners,
02:49and how we give children opportunities to revisit, practice, explore, and learn at an appropriate pace.
02:58Mark Massant, TV6 News.
