Seven national lyceums were outfitted with modern equipment according to the latest standards in education. This is a physics digital lab that includes a set of sensor-based measuring devices that can be connected to the interactive whiteboard, IPN reports.
In the hand-over ceremony, Minister of Education Corina Fusu underlined the necessity of adjusting teaching to the IT novelties so as to offer new education possibilities. “The new equipment is designed to increase the efficiency of the physics classes, to familiarize the students and teachers with ICT strategies in education and to strengthen the capacity of connecting the ICT with other subjects,” she stated.
The equipment can be used to teach physics, integrated sciences, chemistry, biology, geography and ecology, starting with the fourth grade. It can be connected to tablet computers and mobile phones so that the students can do experiments on the screens of their own mobile phones or tablet PCs.
One of the digital labs was given to the Theoretical Lyceum of Stefanesti village of Floresti district. Aurica Bodiu, the lyceum’s principal who is also a teacher of physics, said the equipment will help the students put their knowledge into practice and will make the learning process interactive. “This set enables the students to do rapid measurements and experiments and to interpret the data electronically so as to carry out studies and analyses. This will help save time,” stated Aurica Bodiu.
The school labs are being outfitted within the Smart Classroom Project that is implemented by the Ministry of Education and the National Association of ICT Companies. The Association’s executive director Ana Chirita said that owing to the implementation of new technology in education, the children learn to see things in a different way. “We think the future belongs to the information technology and exact sciences. All the countries that implemented such things excel somehow in these areas. We are sure that Moldova has potential,” she stated.
For the equipment to be implemented efficiently in schools, the teachers of physics, informatics and biology of the beneficiary lyceums will take part in a series of training seminars during nine months.
Only ten of the 58 lyceums that took part in the relevant contest obtained physics digital labs. The other three lyceums will receive the equipment in the near future.
