A call for interest for suppliers to provide tablets as well as software for use by teachers as part of a pilot project to be carried between next March and March next year was announced this morning by Education Minister Evarist Bartolo.
Addressing a news conference, the minister said the call, for which €80,000 had been budgeted, would close in four weeks.
The government, he said, needed to roll out the service on a nationwide basis as from the following scholastic year beginning in September 2015. The programme would be launched for Year 4 students and would gradually be extended up to Year 6.
The introduction of tablets at secondary level would be dealt with at a later stage, the minister said.
The minister emphasised that no preference would be given to a particular brand. The call, he said, was technologically neutral so as not to give any advantage to a particular supplier.
He stressed that feedback from teachers was crucial for the project to succeed and the aim of the project was to gauge their feedback prior to rolling out the project with schoolchildren.
He warned that tablets would not address literacy and other educational challenges but had to be used as part of the entire educational system.
He also announced that the ministry had appointed Emanuel Zammit director for e-learning to strengthen this particular sector.
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