HCM City to pilot ’smart schools’The HCM City Department of Education and Training has sought approval from the People’s Committee for piloting a “smart schools” programme based extensively on IT use in management and communication between schools and students’ families. A board with a touch screen being used at a primary school in Bình Duong Province. The smart schools would have teachers trained to fluently use touch-screen boards and design e-learning lessons, and they would use and contribute to creating open databases for teaching, he said. There would be studies into what smart devices primary school students could use and the results would be announced, he said. The department is drafting a plan for training teachers in the skills required to establish “smart schools”, he said.

Source: VietNamNet News March 02, 2018 04:55 UTC