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The Digital School program, aimed at public school students and teachers, will make the first 100,000 computers available “already in the 1st quarter,” giving priority to the neediest students, the Ministry of Education announced on Friday.
In a note to the media, the Ministry says that “The first phase of the process of universalization of the digital school is underway”, counting, “already in the 1st academic period, with the availability of the first one hundred thousand computers”.
According to the note, that doesn’t need computer delivery dates., “The priority of supplying the first equipment is the students receiving support in the field of School Social Action”.
The guardianship adds that computers have a “differentiated typology by teaching cycle and access to mobile broadband Internet.”
400 million investment
The Digital School program, which includes the distribution of computers to students and teachers, the training of teachers and the provision of “digital pedagogical resources”, will be carried out “in a phased manner”, with the aim of reaching “all students and public school teachers “.
The planned investment for the program, which aims to “universalize the digital school”, is 400 million euros.
Public schools with a universe of 1.2 million students
The Ministry of Education says that it has initiated other measures, such as the diagnosis of the level of competence of teachers, “which will allow the program to be oriented towards their education and training”, the training of trainers, to “train a large number of teachers” , to create digital transition plans for each school group and a pilot program to dematerialize textbooks.
Public schools have around 1.2 million students who, in March, stopped taking face-to-face classes due to the evolution of the covid-19 pandemic. Only juniors and seniors in high school returned to school in May to prepare for the national college entrance exams.
Distance education revealed that there was a percentage of students who did not follow the classes properly due to lack of equipment or network.
The 2020/2021 school year officially begins, for basic and secondary education, between September 14 and 17, resuming face-to-face classes.
However, there is the possibility that schools may have to switch to mixed education or even distance education, depending on these measures in the event of the eventual appearance of cases of infection by covid-19 in the school community.
The National Confederation of Parents’ Associations maintains that the team should belong to the schools and be available if necessary.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 910,300 deaths and more than 28.2 million cases of infection in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French news agency AFP.
In Portugal, 1,855 people died from 62,813 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate General of Health.
Covid-19 is a respiratory disease caused by a new coronavirus (type of virus) detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
