{"id":69564,"date":"2024-03-26T14:13:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T14:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/?p=69564"},"modified":"2024-03-26T14:11:48","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T14:11:48","slug":"smart-schools-project-1-3m-educational-tablets-to-be-distributed-to-students-pres-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/smart-schools-project-1-3m-educational-tablets-to-be-distributed-to-students-pres-akufo-addo","title":{"rendered":"Smart Schools Project: 1.3m educational tablets to be distributed to students \u2013 Pres Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. <\/strong><\/span><b>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that 1.3 million tablets are going to be distributed to students under the Smart School Project.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The tablets, he said, are fitted with digital content to aid research, teaching, and learning.<\/p>\n<p>Launching the project on Monday, March 25, Mr Akufo-Addo said \u201cTo distribute 1.3 million educational tablets to students in SHSs. That is one student, and one tablet under the Ghana Smart Schools Project. The tablets are fitted with digital content to aid research, teaching, and learning.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the tertiary level, Ghana is pleased to provide at a discounted price tablets and laptops to students and lecturers to facilitate academic [activities]&#8230; The government continues to seek innovative ways to do STEM and the FSHS policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe next phase of FSHS policy enhancement will be propelled by digitalisation. This will allow a seamless online and offline teaching and learning experience,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>An earlier statement by the Ministry of Education said the initiative \u201caligns with government\u2019s efforts to enhance e-learning and digitalization,\u201d as well as \u201csupports government\u2019s goal of leveraging technological advancements to prepare Ghanaian students for the Fourth Industrial Revolution,\u201d also known as digital age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe initiative aims to bolster Senior High School Education by providing Teaching and Learning Management System, Digital Learning Content and Education Devices to all Senior High and TVET Schools nationwide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\">Ghana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ghana. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that 1.3 million tablets are going to be distributed to students under the Smart School Project. The tablets, he said, are fitted with digital content to aid research, teaching, and learning. Launching the project on Monday, March 25, Mr Akufo-Addo said \u201cTo distribute 1.3 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":69562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[5092,5096,429],"class_list":["post-69564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ghana","tag-ghana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Smart Schools Project: 1.3m educational tablets to be distributed to students \u2013 Pres Akufo-Addo - Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that 1.3 million tablets are going to be distributed to students ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/smart-schools-project-1-3m-educational-tablets-to-be-distributed-to-students-pres-akufo-addo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Smart Schools Project: 1.3m educational tablets to be distributed to students \u2013 Pres Akufo-Addo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that 1.3 million tablets are going to be distributed to students ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/smart-schools-project-1-3m-educational-tablets-to-be-distributed-to-students-pres-akufo-addo\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-26T14:13:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2024\/03\/sm_1711449169.016345.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/smart-schools-project-1-3m-educational-tablets-to-be-distributed-to-students-pres-akufo-addo#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/smart-schools-project-1-3m-educational-tablets-to-be-distributed-to-students-pres-akufo-addo\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Smart Schools Project: 1.3m educational tablets to be distributed to students \u2013 Pres Akufo-Addo\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-26T14:13:58+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/smart-schools-project-1-3m-educational-tablets-to-be-distributed-to-students-pres-akufo-addo\"},\"wordCount\":246,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/smart-schools-project-1-3m-educational-tablets-to-be-distributed-to-students-pres-akufo-addo#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ghana\/sites\/18\/2024\/03\/sm_1711449169.016345.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Ghana\",\"ghana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/smart-schools-project-1-3m-educational-tablets-to-be-distributed-to-students-pres-akufo-addo#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/smart-schools-project-1-3m-educational-tablets-to-be-distributed-to-students-pres-akufo-addo\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/smart-schools-project-1-3m-educational-tablets-to-be-distributed-to-students-pres-akufo-addo\",\"name\":\"Smart Schools Project: 1.3m educational tablets to be distributed to students \u2013 Pres Akufo-Addo - 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