Ministry of Education’s Doodle Learn to engage over 6,000 students in Belize

Published by BBNTEAM at November 30, 2024

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Posted: Saturday, November 30, 2024. 8:37 am CST.

By Zoila Palma Gonzalez: On November 29, 2024, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Technology, in partnership with the International Development Bank (IDB) launched an initiative to support schools by providing brand-new Chromebooks for students to participate in the Doodle Learning Programme, starting with All Saints’ Anglican School.

Minister of Education Francis Fonseca says that the program aims to target specific areas including foundational areas of math, language, reading, spelling and times table for students that were affected during the COVID-19 lockdown.

“A lot of work has gone into that, a lot of analysis, a lot of data gathering as you rightly said. Both through our local experts and our local team as well as partnering with our international partners like the International Development Bank, the World Bank, and all of this. And that, yes, that students in that age group, say 10 to 12 were most affected and then it also highlighted, no surprise to us, it also highlighted that in these foundational areas of math and language, reading, spelling, the time table, those things were specific areas that were identified as areas that were weak and those were obviously foundational subjects and foundational areas so we had to come up with a plan to target that and this is a part of that response,” Minister Fonseca explained.

Over the next 3 years, 70 schools will receive these devices, benefiting 2,000 students annually, for a total of 6,000 students throughout the project.

This project aims to alleviate the impacts of COVID-19 that caused many primary schools to fall behind the global advancements in education and teaching techniques.

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