More than 10,000 downloads of the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training‘s Teleschool app have been recorded in 310 cities across the country since its launch last week, according to officials in Islamabad.
According to official sources in the Ministry of Federal Education and Professional Training, the Teleschool app has received roughly 5,500 enrollment numbers in the past week. Its success among the poor, particularly in rural regions, was highlighted by the fact that 17,000 video recordings of different classes had been viewed in just one week.
They also noted that cutting-edge tools like Teleschool would be employed to boost education’s already stellar standard of excellence. The Teleschool Pakistan App, Google for Education, and the Digital Continuous Professional Development programme were all unveiled last week by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to enable students in grades 1 through 12 with access to online education. The programme will significantly improve the country’s conventional schooling system.
Meanwhile, in light of the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, plans have progressed towards implementing the first-ever TeleSchool programme with the aim of telecasting education classes directly to students’ homes.
Teleschools are a futuristic approach
Tele-education is the future, according to the sources, and mobile phones allow us to reach locations where there is now no infrastructure. The education ministry has been pursuing efforts, such as tele-education, to address serious problems, such as the fact that there are over 20 million children who are not in school and only a 60% literacy rate.
The proliferation of mobile phones has also greatly aided the spread of knowledge. Students in grades 1-12 can take advantage of the 10 hour daily session, which runs from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Ministry of Education claims that the material is in line with the national curriculum’s goals for student achievement in the country’s most important topics.
The government said that PTV was selected as the broadcast medium since it was used by 95% of the population. The Federal Directorate of Education oversaw the organisation of the material (FDE).
Free assistance was offered by a few digital content creation tools for educational purposes. Children in rural regions are also greatly aided by the channel. Yet the point of the programme is to bring learning to the homes of children who otherwise might not have access to it. The effort has been praised as a fantastic idea, especially in underserved regions of the country where elementary schools did not previously exist.
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