Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government has decided to upgrade the existing education system by integrating ‘Google for Education.’
With that, KP will become the first province to revamp its education system on modern lines.
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For the unversed, Google for Education is a service provided by Google that offers free and secure education tools to transform how students learn, work, and innovate together.
In this regard, a team from Google for Education also called on the provincial government in a virtual meeting to discuss the modalities for deploying the modern education system in the province.
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Google’s team apprised the provincial government that students will learn modern skills and techniques through Google for Education.
Following the meeting, KP’s Minister for Elementary and Secondary Education, Shahram Khan Tarakai, said that the provincial government will provide training to school teachers, enabling them to easily impart education to students using Google for Education.
With the help of @GoogleforEdu, we are going to digitally enable the #educational #institutions all over #KP and will ensure that #teachers are technologically #trained and later on this digital literacy will be passed on to the students as well. (2/2)@TechValleyPak @Google
— Shahram Khan Tarakai (@ShahramKTarakai) October 21, 2020
I don’t trust Google. Should have gone with Microsoft. Also MS portfolio is large spanning from windows to Xbox to MS 365 to MS Azure. Google is nothing but a monopoly.
I think this will benefit not only students and teachers but will enable students to make a greater contribution to their country’s development as they should be starting their working lives with competence in the use of digital technology tools.
It is just a policy it can not be implemented. We have shortage of teachers and computer lab in all over khyber pakhtunkhwa.
GSuite for Education is the right direction to take. Its cost free for Non Profit organizations and if its a government initiative it will be promoted and perhaps subsidized for under privileged schools.
Also bear in mind that it can be supported by most android cell phones, hence negating the need to buy costly ICT equipment.