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THE Board of Trustees of Roraima Learning Trust (RLT) will, tomorrow, meet with opinion, practice and sector leaders to discuss its outcomes to date, along with the planned national rollout, to fourth through sixth forms, in ten core subjects from its website in September. RLT said this Friday meeting, at Herdmanston Lodge, Peter Rose and Anira Streets, Queenstown, Georgetown, will be addressed by Minister of Education, Ms. Priya Manickchand.
RLT had, last year, piloted an innovative learning platform which was designed to accelerate the absorption of fact-based knowledge that it deemed an important part of the education and learning process.
That platform is built around the ‘Knowledge Pulse’ online software and had been introduced in eight secondary schools, with a total of 160 fourth formers.
The project was founded by Kojo Parris and among its trustees are Malcolm Parris and Ralph Ramkarran, who oversee a partnership that includes the One Laptop per Family Programme (OLPF), onto whose devices the software is being pre-loaded and made available to children where necessary.
The Ministry of Education, an RLT release said, has contributed seed funding, expert curriculum advice, and volunteered teachers as content creators, and e-Networks business provided pro bono wireless connectivity and related support to the schools in its footprint.
The RLT Board and its core Knowledge Pulse partner intend to make the former one of the top five default global software platforms by re-energising lifelong learning, reducing access costs to near zero, and constructing a durable enterprise model, the release stated.
It said the pilot has been the first step in the journey which aims to target, by mid-December, Guyana’s teenagers’ core academic needs, the Caribbean/CXC footprint by June 2014, and the global Anglophone primary, secondary and tertiary sectors by June 2015.
RLT had, last year, piloted an innovative learning platform which was designed to accelerate the absorption of fact-based knowledge that it deemed an important part of the education and learning process.
That platform is built around the ‘Knowledge Pulse’ online software and had been introduced in eight secondary schools, with a total of 160 fourth formers.
The project was founded by Kojo Parris and among its trustees are Malcolm Parris and Ralph Ramkarran, who oversee a partnership that includes the One Laptop per Family Programme (OLPF), onto whose devices the software is being pre-loaded and made available to children where necessary.
The Ministry of Education, an RLT release said, has contributed seed funding, expert curriculum advice, and volunteered teachers as content creators, and e-Networks business provided pro bono wireless connectivity and related support to the schools in its footprint.
The RLT Board and its core Knowledge Pulse partner intend to make the former one of the top five default global software platforms by re-energising lifelong learning, reducing access costs to near zero, and constructing a durable enterprise model, the release stated.
It said the pilot has been the first step in the journey which aims to target, by mid-December, Guyana’s teenagers’ core academic needs, the Caribbean/CXC footprint by June 2014, and the global Anglophone primary, secondary and tertiary sectors by June 2015.
