Governor Ignacio “Nacho” Torres led yesterday a new delivery of latest technology computer equipment to different educational establishments in the Cordillera region. Before students and teachers from seven schools in the area, the president highlighted the scope of the Provincial Law of Financial Education, Artificial and Robotic Intelligence devised by the Executive for the “academic development of future generations” and anticipated that, in parallel to this acquisition, “we will double connectivity through satellite Internet and reach each town of Chubut.”
During the act carried out this morning at facilities of Esquel School 76, the head of the Executive was accompanied by Vice Governor Gustavo Menna; the national deputy Ana Clara Romero; The local mayor Matías Taccetta and executives of schools who received mobile digital classrooms and technological tools for strengthening the academic trajectory of students.
The devices delivered to Esquel schools, Futalaufquen Lake, Lake Rosario, Gualjaina, Lepá Costa, Nahuelpan and Sierra Colorada are part of the program for the technological strengthening of educational institutions carried out by the Chubut Ministry of Education in establishments throughout the province.
Future learning
After delivery, Torres revealed that “this equipment goes hand in hand with a law that we present at the time to include some concepts that are the basis of learning of the future, in a world that changes very fast, which is dynamic and we have to modernize.”
In this regard, he indicated that «when we talk about programming, robotics, financial education, we are talking about concepts so that you have the necessary tools to progress, to develop professionally and to defend yourself from any injustice in life. That is education, that is what our teachers do ».
The president said that it is “necessary equipment and that today is part of the reality that is increasingly dynamic and generates uncertainty.” He stated in that framework that “we cannot be left behind, we cannot deny that technology, but quite the opposite: we have to twin with it, acquire that knowledge and give them to the little ones to be part of that increasingly competitive world.”
More equipment and greater connectivity
The governor also specified that one of the objectives set since the beginning of the management “was to recover some of all the time that was lost and that the importance of public education is never questioned again.”
He guaranteed that “this is the principle of many investments that we are going to do in order to have those tools that we need so many, not only in large cities but also in a lot of villages that are remote, which have more needs and where there are important asymmetries.”
The head of the Chubutense Executive also anticipated that, in parallel to the acquisition of these technological tools, “we will double connectivity through satellite Internet and reach each town of Chubut.” And in that sense he explained that “this will be possible thanks to all the money we save ourselves in the incorporation of computer equipment, which we did with the United Nations through an international tender.”
Essential right
Within the framework of the delivery, Taccetta highlighted the accompaniment of the Government of the province and indicated that “from the first moment we have said that for us education is a priority and it is so, when we started management, we put ourselves as a goal and as a main objective to create an education address, something that had not happened in previous efforts, to give it the value it deserves.”
The Mayor valued the “signing of an agreement with the province for the maintenance of schools” and stressed the importance of “having a daily link with each of the managers of the different educational establishments of the city and, in that closeness, understanding that education is not only an essential right but an obligation, and a guarantee for the next generations.”
TECHNOLOGICAL RESOURCES AND TOOLS
These tools were acquired within the framework of a joint work between the Chubut Government and the United Nations Office for Projects (UNOPS) to improve educational abilities and the value of academic resources.
With your experience in acquisitions and technical assistance, UNOPS carries out the purchases of these technological teams to accompany provincial priorities in education and provide schools with new tools and learning resources.
On this occasion, 3D printers were delivered, robotics kits and netbooks to the directors of Esquel’s No. 76 schools, Eliana Ortega; No. 25 of Futalaufquen Lake, Myrna lived in Vera Ríos; No. 114 of Lake Rosario, Mario Salazar; No. 74 of Gualjaina, María Natalia Seitz; No. 99 of Costa de Lepá, Mauricio Pino; No. 107 of Nahuelpan, Julieta Acuña and No. 208 of Sierra Colorada, Margarita Guzmán.
