With a vision of development based on the full incorporation of technology in the classroom, yesterday the governor, Gustavo Valdés led the delivery of 1,160 notebooks to students from secondary schools in the Capital, as part of the Include Future program.
During the act, the president specified that the necessary resources are being allocated to be able to deliver 20,000 more computers for all the students who are in their first year in the Province.
With these new computers, teachers and students have access to all the contents of Educa Play, the digital training program available on the Corrientes Play platform developed by the provincial government to complement the teaching-learning process in the classroom.
Thus, it seeks to reduce the digital gap, aiming at a better free public education, generating inclusion and more opportunities among young people.
“When the pandemic began, the province of Corrientes did not have any appropriate educational system to send the information home because face-to-face was displaced and stripped us of the deficiencies and we had to get down to work with the actions,” he recalled. the governor, Gustavo Valdés at the beginning of his speech referring to the beginnings of the Include Future program.
“This does not imply only delivering a computer, but it goes beyond what it is to generate educational content so that students work on the texts and we can tell our story,” he added.
In this sense, Valdés specified that “we are working so that all second-year students have their computer” and advanced: “We are working to deliver 20,000 more computers for all first-year students throughout the Province.”
“Know that the more than 50,000 delivered that are on the street and the ones that we are going to deliver are going to give people something to talk about,” said the Governor.
To conclude, he bet that “we Corrientes are going to continue saving resources to invest in free public education, because this makes us equal and it will set us free. The future is today”.
The Minister of Education, Práxedes López, pointed out that thanks to the delivery of the devices, “our students have these tools, in addition to all the digital content”, which already covers from the first to the fourth year of the Secondary Level.
He stressed that the new computers will serve to strengthen complementary study programs, also reaching students who owe subjects, reinforcing learning.
Concluding, Práxedes López highlighted the teamwork with teachers and directors of the different establishments, “all together with the objective of providing quality education and guaranteeing the completion of students from Corrientes.”
For its part, the detail of the notebooks delivered to each establishment is as follows: Colegio General San Martín (201); General Manuel Belgrano College (179); Eliseo Popolizio Engineering College (84); Carmen M de Llano Technical School (87); Iberá College (111); Hipólito Yrigoyen School (308) and Dr Juan Gregorio Pujol Normal School (190).
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