#TECH: Helping schools adopt digital technology

KUALA LUMPUR: Lenovo, in a collaboration with Microsoft, recently launched a programme called EdVision to help schools in Malaysia to go through a digital transformation journey with access to the newest technology solutions for education.

To realise this initiative, Lenovo and Microsoft will team up to host workshops for school committee teams, which involve principals to teachers of selected primary and secondary schools. They will provide technology consultation for the schools’ digital transformation journey.

Both companies will demonstrate how a collaborative learning experience could take place in schools.

Lenovo Central Asia Pacific’s director of education transformation and development, Khoo Hung Chuan said education technology is vital in preparing students for future careers and economy.

“Students will encounter careers that are not available today, meaning that the fundamental structure of education is also changing,” said Khoo.

“Lenovo understands the challenges faced by schools in transforming education and implementing new models of teaching, learning and collaborating while managing cost, efficiency and security,” he added.

The programme was launched in the Philippines and Indonesia before Malaysia’s availability on Nov 5.

The partners of the EdVision programme will get an early view of future technologies to make education easy and effective through a set of solutions, which are designed to give convenience, comprehensive, flexible and easy to collaborate.

Meanwhile, Microsoft Malaysia’s general manager of public sector group, Sheikh Manzoor said children who start school from now on will grow up to be workers and leaders in a digital-first world that will demand new skills and new ways of thinking.

“Hence, we must ensure that they have the right access to the right tools and platforms to succeed,” he said.

“At Microsoft, we are committed to empowering every student on the planet to achieve more. Through our partnership with Lenovo, we aim to deliver personalised learning via easy-to-manage technology, supported by our Windows 10 devices along with Microsoft 365 Education, built for the classroom and beyond,” he said.

Schools and industry partners who took part in the EdVision programme will promote the digital transformation of education through press conferences and other activities.

International Schools Partnership (ISP)’s regional head of technology, Leonard Thum, said at ISP, learning is at the heart of everything we do for our students, colleagues, and parents. “We aspire to deliver effective learning experiences and outcomes using technology as the key enabler,” he said.

He believed that the school’s collaboration with Lenovo will enable the students to thrive in the new norms.

Meanwhile, Universiti Putra Malaysia’s dean of the faculty of educational studies, Prof Dr Samsilah Roslan said technology has changed the way students learn. We can foresee that many of today’s students will enter careers that are yet to be conceptualised and conceived,” she said.

Source: NST