The governor of Corrientes, Gustavo Valdés, delivered this Wednesday 689 notebooks of the Conectar Igualdad Program to secondary level students from different educational institutions in Mercedes, in an event that brought them all together at the “Manuel Florencio Mantilla” Normal School, where the president Corrientes celebrated that in this way This city became the first with a large population in the Province, where all the students have a computer..
Valdés stressed that “one of the first goals we set as a provincial government was modernization,” which meant “a challenge,” he said, since “when one thinks about modernizing, one believes that it only refers to structures that have to do with the digital procedure or with digital citizenship, but rarely is thought about how it is going to begin to reform education digitally.”
In that sense, he referred to “the practically two-year gap that we had in our history due to the pandemic starting in 2020”, in which “we had the challenge of staying in our homes because we did not really know what was going to happen.”
He said that it was something that “challenged us towards the future, because we had to teach classes and we didn’t know how: there was no type of methodology or systematization to be able to carry out the classes that we needed to have before our students.” He recalled that it was from that moment that “we began to look for platforms to be able to teach,” and when the provincial government launched “a program that we projected on two platforms: EducaPlay and Corrientes Play, but we did not have a structured system. complete education.”
And in this way “we moved forward, with great difficulties, but we moved forward,” said the Corrientes president, “systematizing the digital content for the first year, and today we are already finishing the sixth year. It took us almost four years to digitize absolutely everything, but we can say that Corrientes is currently a province that has all of its secondary education digitized and in content available, like no other province in the Argentine Republic has.”
On the other hand, the Governor referred to the delivery of the 689 notebooks today in Mercedes, thus becoming “one of the first cities with a large population in the province of Corrientes, where absolutely all high school students “They have a digital computer.” He thus expressed that “we are fulfilling a dream, since each student is going to have his computer, but it also challenges teaching, because we are providing our young people with a tool that will change their way of thinking.”
Likewise, Valdés celebrated that now the 1,475 students at the secondary level of the Normal School, count through the notebook “with access to artificial intelligence, to educational content, which is what we were looking for.” So “we are concluding a work cycle with the entire team of the Ministry of Education, the 2047 team, achieving a technological revolution in Corrientes,” he concluded.
Notebook Delivery
The Government of Corrientes, through the Ministry of Education of the province, delivered in the city of Mercedes the number of 689 notebooks belonging to the “Incluir Futuro” program and they were distributed to the students of the following schools: to the Secondary School of the Sociedad Rural Neighborhood 46 units were delivered to them; to the Libertador General Don José Francisco de San Martín Technical School 82 notebooks; The Eulogio Cruz Cabral Agrotechnical School was given the amount of 93 units; to the Tiro Federal Secondary School with 64 units; to the Barrio Comunicaciones Secondary School with 124; Secondary School that operates in the Dr Arturo Illía neighborhood with 131 units and the Manuel Florencio Mantilla Normal School with 143 units.