In the vastness of the Amazon forest, on the outskirts of Leticia (southern Colombia) an indigenous school uses new technologies to improve the quality of education received by children and young people in this end point country.
The public school Francisco Jose de Caldas, the Tikuna community, received this week a connection to virtual and educational tools “Schools +” program of the Ministry of Education and the company DirecTV, with that is to harness the satellite TV system to complement the work of teachers.
The program is aimed at public institutions throughout the country, with special emphasis on rural and isolated communities, as is the case this school of Leticia, on the border with Peru and Brazil.
700 students from eight indigenous tribes in the Amazon are the beneficiaries of this program.
To select the colleges takes into account whether they are vulnerable, if they are in isolated areas and have no other means of connection, and if they have electricity 24 hours in order to exploit to the best service, according to Pilar Rivera, representative of the Ministry of Education in the ceremony.
As part of its social responsibility projects, the multinational DirecTV satellite television endowed a school classroom of Tikunas with a television and a decoder to facilitate access of teachers quality educational content.
The school Francisco Jose de Caldas, first Amazon Indian educational institution has its own community education project, which includes the customs of the region as a teaching model.
The institution is located just six kilometers from Leticia, capital of Amazonas department, which is reached by a road.
“The maintenance of the equipment delivered and education areas run by DirecTV has in a lifetime, “said Luis Guillermo Hernandez, manager of Social Responsibility Directv Colombia.
There are more than 2,000 hours of content related to each of the areas of knowledge to those who can teachers access at any time thanks to a partnership with Discovery Channel School, National Geographic Channel, Microsoft and tournaments Foundation.
The teachers also received training to learn how to interact with the technology and knew how you can be of service to students.
“I like it because children arrive with a more open mind and come home to tell me everything they learned,” he told Efe Andrea Arias, mother three children, two of whom are studying in the school where she also attends classes at the night shift, dedicated to adults.
To link the community was used to bridge the volunteer “Piedra , Paper, Scissors “composed of workers from different areas of the company.
The volunteers, along with teachers, students and community leaders, recovered and restored part of the facade of the school and the library . and the “Aula School Plus”, where you can view the contents of “School +” and which also functions as computer room
“It is a compromise: nice finish putting our institution. We illustrated how we can improve it, “said Carlos Cahuache grateful, professor and coordinator of the night shift, who emphasized that through this initiative can” articulate traditional knowledge with technology. “
This is because more than 1,200 schools that have the “School +” project, of which 41 are located in Leticia and its surrounding jungle but is expected to arrive in the country to more than 2,000 institutions end of the year.
“As the DirecTV satellite television can reach every corner of Colombia” he concluded Hernandez.
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