Grenada ‘to be cautious with tablet roll out’

Tablets will still be given out to schools across Grenada but implementation will be sensible, according to a government senator.

Simon Stiell, speaking this week as part of the 2018 budget, said that the country will learn from errors in schemes in other Caribbean islands.

“St Vincent saw the errors of their ways, Trinidad did, when they rushed out, provided everybody with a tablet then realised that without the correct training, without the correct environment it was just a waste of resource and had to recall,” said the education minister.

“There is a programme, $600,000 has been allocated to it in 2018 to upgrade and ensure that as many of our schools as possible have full broadband access etc, to be able to access those technologies.”

Plans for the future include 100 additional teachers trained in ICT to ensure programmes can be smithy introduced in schools.

Still revealed that 140 teachers have already been trained in integrating ICT into school curriculums.

“It’s no good swamping everybody with tablets and our teachers cannot teach or students cannot learn,” said Stiell.

“Mr President, in 2018 more efforts to ensure that more teachers are developing and delivering lessons with heavy emphasis on the use of ICT tools will be a main focus.”