TI recently finalized a donation of multimedia classrooms to schools in poverty-stricken areas of central and west China.
TI recently finalized a donation of multimedia classrooms to schools in poverty-stricken areas of central and west China.
TI worked with the China Ministry of Education (MOE) on the donation, which was formalized in a ceremony last month in Dali, Yunnan province. Sessions to train a headmaster and teachers for the classrooms took place in conjunction with the ceremony.
Trisha Cunningham, Chief Citizenship Officer of TI, attended the ceremony on behalf of TI, along with Paula Collins, vice president and manager of TI Government Relations, and Desmond Wong, director of TI DLP® Products in Asia.
"To support education and provide equal education opportunities to more children is an integral part of our citizenship strategy in China," Cunningham said. "We are very glad to leverage our advanced technologies to help expand the horizon of children, allowing them to get the latest learning resources.
"Knowledge opens many doors that would otherwise be closed. In the future, we hope to continue to cooperate with China's Ministry of Education and educators to enhance the education of children in poverty-stricken areas."
The program aims to support the construction of information technology infrastructure in schools in central and west China to help close the digital divide in urban and rural classrooms.
Guests present at the ceremony included Zhang Yun, director of Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges for the China MOE and Cai Yun, deputy director of China's National Center for Educational Technology.
Bringing technology to schools
In 2012, the MOE released a 10-Year Education Informatization Plan to build an IT-driven learning environment where everyone can access high quality education resources by 2020.
Over the next few years, education informatization will play an important role in promoting education equality, improving education quality, building a learning-oriented society and driving education reform.
TI's donation of multimedia classrooms to poverty-stricken areas of central and western China is of great significance to the improvement of education informatization and education efficiency and sharing of high quality education resources in poverty-stricken areas.
According to National Center for Educational Technology, more than 3,000 teachers and 50,000 students will directly benefit from this program.
"MOE appreciates TI's long-term commitment to China's education, especially the education informatization in poverty-stricken areas," said Zhang Yun, director of the Department of International Cooperation and Exchanges for the China MOE.
"Education informatization is the foundation of education modernization. With multimedia classrooms donated by TI, teachers and students in poverty-stricken areas of central and western China will be able to access advanced education equipment and quality education resources for more development opportunities."
Working to implement program
Since signing a Memorandum of Understanding with MOE to donate 100 multimedia classrooms to schools in poverty-stricken areas of central and western China in July 2012, TI has been actively supporting the National Center for Educational Technology (NCET) to implement this program.
At present, installation, device operation and testing of 100 multimedia classrooms in 100 schools in Yunnan, Sichuan and Henan have been completed.
Each multimedia classroom is equipped with TI DLP-based projector and smart boards, computers and software. The setup provides an intuitive, vivid, highly interactive teaching platform and rich applications for teachers to inspire students' interest in learning.
After these multimedia classrooms were established, TI also worked with NCET to train teachers in these schools on teaching with information technology.
TI has donated 30 TI Hope Project libraries and 30 TI multimedia classrooms in Nanbu County, a national poverty county in China. Additionally, every year in eight universities in China, about 350 new students from poor families receive educational funding through TI Star Student Assistance Program.
Last year, the foundation was laid for a TI Project Hope School at Nanbu County Chengguan Third Primary School. The school will be open soon.
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