Marie Cole Memorial Primary students get new tablets

Launtia Cuff, Star Writer

Students at the Marie Cole Memorial Primary School in North East St Elizabeth were beside themselves with excitement as they received their new tablets courtesy of the tablets in school programme.

Of the 38 schools across the island that have been selected, Marie Cole is the first in Region 5 of the Ministry of Education to receive devices through the programme.

Implementation Supervisor for the programme, from E-learning Jamaica Company Limited, Dorothy Thompson, said that it was necessary to give the technology directly to the students as in some cases when they were given to the school students still do not have enough access.

This way she said, would better ensure an improvement in numeracy and literacy but to ensure that students were brought up to par with international students in terms of being able to access information using digital means.

Have access

“The Universal Service Fund provides Internet access to the schools and to the community so the community can have access to check their email, go online and be able to be involved in this digital world that we are in,” Thompson said.

Principal, Delmas Smith, said parents and teachers must monitor the students’ use of the tablets to ensure that they were being used for the primary purpose of learning.

Although the programme made provision for each registered student at the school to receive a tablet some students were not able to receive as parents or guardians did not show up to sign for the devices.

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Marie Cole Memorial Primary students get new tablets