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Dr Tariq Shawky, Minister of Education and Technical Education, spoke about the reasons for changing the assessment system in secondary school, what has been added to the knowledge bank and educational management platform, and how to create new questions in secondary school.
The Education Minister said, in a message to students on the “Madrasatna” channel, “When I was in high school for 40 years, I had no digital libraries, no digital content, no devices, and searching for knowledge was much more difficult in that moment”.
The Minister of Education added: “The ministry is now talking about understanding and a new way of asking questions that encourages critical thinking and creativity, but on the other hand people are still talking about the exam and” what came on the exam. “
And the minister continued: “We are going to think about a global problem that everyone wants to solve and for which they are anxious, which is a need for Corona, saying: The solution to the problem is limited to the need to find a treatment or a vaccine against Corona, and therefore the matter will not be resolved but with science and only scientists, that is, now we need scientists. Senior teachers in biology and other scientists in other branches of science, and the minister was assassinated: Imagine that the country that will come to the treatment will win what it is and will have power and will come to this matter with its scientists, although Corona was not present in the curriculum they originally studied.
“The ministry is currently interested in giving students the real skills that we need now, and not in looking for old skills that were useful 100 years ago,” explained the minister.
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The Minister of Education pointed out that the current era forces us to master new tools such as technology, that is why I personally had to learn technology while I was older, and that is why it is logical that young people who will live the next 50 years should learn all the skills new and master them with understanding and not with memorization, and said. The minister, “We do not need to save anything, since the technology is available on the phone, the laptop and the iPad.
The minister pointed out that evaluation in our time should be based on understanding the learning outcomes, indicating that the student’s main concern should not be: “Where is the question that will come on the exam?” “We will not treat the old way.”
The minister emphasized that it is one of the means of learning that Egypt provides its children, the Egyptian Knowledge Bank, and explained that the political leadership in Egypt decided to bring the science from its original sources from all the famous publishers around the world. in all fields, in Arabic and English.
He explained that the Knowledge Bank can be used by children, schoolchildren and university students, readers and researchers, indicating that there is an icon dedicated to high school students in the Knowledge Bank, which is accessed through an account similar to the account From Facebook.
The Minister of Education highlighted that the learning platform in the Knowledge Bank is a detailed platform dedicated to high school students, adding that there is also a study guide for students in the Knowledge Bank in addition to a large number of materials. educational available on the platform, including chemistry and mathematics, noting that all materials are in Arabic and English.
The Minister of Education clarified that the ministry took 3 years to create the high school curricula in the Knowledge Bank, saying: “The student’s book that was once printed is now available in the knowledge bank in the form of PDF.
The minister said: For the students who ask, I do not have a printed book, because the book is in the Knowledge Bank.
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