The Ministry of Education today commissioned smart classrooms at the Brickdam Secondary School and the East Ruimveldt Secondary School in Georgetown.
The smart classrooms are equipped with items such as an interactive board, a television that allows teachers and students to connect remotely and motion and voice-activated cameras complete with a face recognition feature.
The smart classrooms will benefit the 368 students currently enrolled at the Brickdam Secondary School and the 506 students at the East Ruimveldt Secondary School.
At today’s commissioning exercises, the Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand, said that she was very pleased to be commissioning the classrooms especially during the pandemic where information and teaching can flow from one to many using the equipment installed.
The Education Minister promised that the effective usage of the classrooms will not be left up to the schools alone but will be part of a managed program to make sure the classrooms are being used effectively to benefit the students at the respective schools but also those students at other schools which do not have such classrooms.
In February of this year, a smart classroom was also commissioned at Queen’s College which was the second such facility in the public education system. That commissioning had sparked a response from former Minister of Public Telecommunications, Catherine Hughes, who argued that smart classrooms were already installed in several secondary schools across Guyana including the Brickdam Secondary.
Minister Manickchand has given the assurance that the Government of Guyana and the Ministry of Education will continue to establish more smart classrooms and have them commissioned in the coming weeks.
