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Chong (front, third right) and others in a group photo during the cheque presentation.
KUCHING (Oct 28): SK Sacred Heart Semaba will be the first national primary school in the Stampin parliamentary constituency to be equipped with smart televisions to aid the teaching process, said Stampin MP Chong Chieng Jen.
The Sarawak Democratic Action Party chairman said he had granted RM72,500 for the school to purchase smart televisions for all the classes.
“This, coupled with my previous allocations, will be sufficient to equip all the classes with smart TVs to teach their students,” he said in a statement issued following a cheque presentation yesterday.
Chong said the purchase and installation of the smart TVs in SK Sacred Heart Semaba is estimated to be completed by early December this year.
He believed that the pupils will have a totally new learning experience starting next year.
The Stampin Service Centre, he added, will embark on the programme to supply smart TVs to digitalise teaching in all primary schools in his constituency next year.
“This is our concrete and practical step to innovation and digitalisation in our education system.”
According to Chong, teaching using smart TV is a form of digitalisation of teaching methods, which is one of the government’s education agenda.
He said such teaching methods have many advantages over the traditional black board and chalk or white board and marker pen.
Moreover, he pointed out that teachers can now download more interesting teaching material from the internet, and store the content and virtual textbooks on the cloud so as to easily present it on the smart TVs when teaching.
“There are also animated clips available for more interactive study for the students. Therefore, not only is teaching using smart TVs easier for the teachers, it is also more interesting and instils more interest to study amongst the students.”
Chong said his special assistants Michael Kong, Sim Kiat Leng and Jordan Soo will be charged with all applications from the primary schools in the Stampin constituency for the smart TVs’ allocation.
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