Tablet PCs among the subject specialists of the government higher secondary schools.
On each Tablet PC, the digital contents of Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Mathematics of class 9th and 10th have been uploaded. A total of six tablets per government higher secondary school were distributed.
The Interactive Whiteboards are yet another initiative to revolutionize the education system that has suffered stagnancy for ages.
Around 100 Interactive Whiteboards have already been installed in different schools across KP with solar panels back-up.
One can see the IT teachers as well as the Science and Math teachers at the Government Higher Secondary Syed Mobeen Shah Afridi Shaheed School No 1 Cantt, fully engrossed into a training session on effective use of the Interactive whiteboards.
Shumaila Iftikhar, MSC Computers Science, taught ICT at Beaconhouse School System for six years. She now works as the ICT teacher at the Lady Griffith Government Girls High School Peshawar.
She said, “I have worked as an ICT teacher in Beaconhouse School System Senior Branch for six years and they didn’t have any Interactive Whiteboard. It is a very expensive teaching aid and I am very thankful to our government of KP for providing this cutting-edge technology to the children of those that cannot even dream of it”.
When asked why did she take the additional burden of mentoring other teachers in learning the effective use of the newly provided technology, Shumaila replied, “Since our government is doing so much for us, I want to do something in return and that is the reason why I mentor other teachers.”
Shazia, a 12 grader at the Begum Shahabuddin Girls Higher Secondary School at Got Khatree also shared her views and said: “In the beginning we all didn’t know anything about computers. I couldn’t even dream that one day I would be able to use one. Now Computer Science is my favourite subject, I am so keen to complete BS in computers. But my parents won’t be able to afford it probably.”