Tablets to be given to 7thgraders in November
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In November, when the second semester of the next school years begins, around 700,000 computer tablets will be distributed to seventhgraders across the country, with cash being be provided to parents who wish to buy a preferred model, Education Minister S
It has not been decided if the tablet model will be the same as that to be distributed to firstgraders in the first semester next year starting in midMay, or a different model with specifications tailored to seventhgraders’ instructional needs, he said.
Suchart was speaking at a seminar at the Kurusapa Business Organisation in Bangkok, at which he also proposed that college and university graduates who have not yet earned a separate teaching credential be allowed to work as teachers.
He also said that a communal server would be set up to store school lessons and relevant applications through cloud computing, while schools would be given budgets to purchase or secure additional applications of their choice.
Of the approximately 20,000 new teachers who replace teachers leaving the system each year, around 30 per cent – to be dubbed “newbreed teachers” – would be given additional training or selected from among new graduates without teaching credentials, he said.
