The Barbados government says it is still considering a mobile use policy for primary and secondary schools.
Education, Science, Technology and Innovation Minister, Ronald Jones, said it is likely that the policy, which could come to fruition by September 1 this year, could reinforce the Ministry’s other initiatives and encourage sensible use of the technology.
“The policy is there being refined by the stakeholders and hopefully teachers, parents and students will all be on board because it really doesn’t make any sense deploying the internet and hotspots and Wi-Fi… across all of our learning institutions and then you don’t have the capability to utilize that technology,” he explained.
Meanwhile, Jones called on former students to give back to their schools as he spoke at the handover ceremony for 160 desks to first formers at Harrison College (HC) by the Truss Foundation.
“Wherever you have gone to school and [if that has] made an impact on your life, you should be giving back to that educational institution,” he said, thanking the Foundation also for providing “hotspots’ around the school.
Jones urged the students not to use the new technology for “research that was not necessary for their learning.”
