Introduction; Text2Teach - Nokia N86 8MP User Manual

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INTRODUCTION

A. Text2Teach
Congratulations on receiving your Text2Teach package! You are now on your
way to a more interactive and enriched teaching experience.
Text2Teach is a program that makes use of mobile technology so that schools
can have access to rich multi media videos. It aims to improve the quality of
teaching in grades 5 and 6 in public elementary schools by providing highly
interactive, easy to use multi media packages designed to help make learning
more exciting and meaningful among students.
With the partnership of Ayala Foundation, Nokia, Department of Education,
Globe Telecom, and SEAMEO-INNOTECH, Text2Teach is expanding to reach
more schools in the Philippines.
The Nokia mobile phone is equipped with an exclusive application called "Nokia
Education Delivery (NED)" that allows the teacher to select from 389
interactive, educational videos in Math, Science, and English. These videos
were pre-loaded into the phones for the teachers to choose from. In the
future, additional educational videos will be developed and can be downloaded
and stored in the mobile phones using Globe's 3G technology.
All you have to do is plug the phone into a TV and play the video lesson for the
day. The 3 to 5-minute educational videos created for the project bring these
subjects to life, illustrating key concepts, skills, and competencies that students
are expected to master. These video lesson plans also help make teachers' lives
easier and are compliant with the Basic Education Curriculum.
In putting together a program that would empower the teacher and the
student with relevant and high-quality educational resources in the least
amount of time and cost, Text2Teach is a cost-effective approach to closing the
ever-widening gap restricting social and economic progress in developing
countries.
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