The school has joined the technology of "chromebooks", which have a specific operating system for education allowing students to follow lessons, do their homework, work, and even save their files as if it were a computer. "For some years now we've been preparing teachers to bring them into this process as there are already several Salesian schools that have adopted it. We will join them next year," explained Alberto López, the head of the school's studies, yesterday.
The pandemic highlighted the need to provide families with other resources besides classroom learning, but this change of the Santo Ángel "had already been thought of before, even though families now feel this need more," underlines Lopez, who then adds: "Students are ready to make this leap because we already had a mobile digital classroom with this type of device."
Families have also welcomed the change. At first, there was concern about an economic issue, as parents thought that the payment would be more expensive than buying traditional books. "We have dealt with them and we have seen that the payment will be only this for this first year, but then that computer will remain in the center and will be used also for the second year," explained the families.
A touch screen computer model was chosen, which also has a stylus that will allow them to write on the screen. "Paper will not completely disappear, there will be times when it will still be used, but this type of device allows them to work and create content to share with other students," said Alberto López. At Santo Ángel they consider it essential to introduce students to this type of digital skill.
Even if they don't have the Internet at home, they will be able to work on content, as the computer allows them to create homework and upload it to the Internet when they get to school. "We have an excellent wifi network, which we changed two years ago so that it can support around 600 or 800 devices at a time," added López.
