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Students embrace lesser loads with FATİH project
With the program having been inaugurated at a ceremony in a school in Ankara on Monday, pupils at Yedikule Anadolu High School, one of six schools in İstanbul taking part in the pilot program, expressed happiness at what they hope will be the end of the chore of lugging about heavy textbooks. Students said they were excited by what promises to be a more enjoyable form of learning.
Elif Gülşah Çakır, a ninth grade student, said each pupil taking part in the program has a label with their name printed on the unit and that if they lose the tablet PC or damage it in any way, they will not have to pay the costs themselves. The tablet PCs are being used for students to take notes on in class but also to complete tests on and take part in various other educational activities.
Another student, Melike Yıkılmaz, said lessons would now be a lot more interactive and enjoyable for students, while Fatih Aslan said he felt privileged to be included amongst the 52 schools participating in the project. “We are very lucky to have this opportunity,” he said.
Narda Dermirci, a pupil at the Beyoğlu Özel Armenian High School, said: “This system has made learning a lot easier. For example, if there is a day when our teacher can’t come to class, we can follow live lessons from another class in another school.” Seher Yiğit, a pupil at the Kemal Naci Ekşi Anatolia High School, said the introduction of tablet PCs has made learning a lot more appealing and exciting for many students.
Orhan Duran, the head teacher of Şehit Özcan Kan Anatolia Teacher’s High School told Today’s Zaman that education with tablet PCs had gotten off to a positive start. Tablets have been distributed to 88 students at the school and to 49 teachers. Duran said the tablet PCs distributed to teachers are more technologically advanced. He also said students have given positive feedback on the program and that lessons have become easier for both students and teachers.
The project, which is expected to cost about TL 3 billion and will be paid for through the Transportation Ministry’s Universal Service Budget, represents the largest single allocation of resources to education in the history of modern Turkey. With the project, textbooks will be thoroughly eliminated, as students will access course materials using their tablet PCs.
Undertaken by the Ministry of Education and supported by the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, the giant project is expected, once finalized, to be in use in 570,000 classrooms in 42,000 schools around Turkey. According to government plans, teachers will be able to instantly access any document around the world they may need for their class, projecting it on the interactive smart board. The project will also facilitate long-distance learning programs while encouraging a gradual transition to e-textbooks and other electronic-learning materials for each class.
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