Paperless education in Gauteng schools
METRO – The Department of Education is ready to embark on their first project of initiating smart paperless classrooms.
Gauteng Department of Education is ready to initiate paperless class rooms.
The Gauteng MEC for Education, Panyaza Lesufi will brief members of the media on 13 January on the launch of the big switch at Boitumelong Secondary School in Tembisa.
“The purpose of this media briefing is to share with members of the media, detailed information on the roll-out of a new paperless education system to be introduced in Gauteng Schools.
“The Big Switch on Pilot project is the first step taken by the Gauteng Department of Education in modernising public education and responding to new education imperatives for quality education,” said the department.
The project will work toward introducing smart paperless classrooms [classrooms of the future] to ensure that pupils and teachers have progressive access to broadband and innovative learning and teaching tools which will enable them to meaningfully participate in the economies of the future.
This pilot project will be launched by deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, when the school re-opens on 14 January.
