Egypt technology taken to schools

AMERICAN superconductor giant, Intel, is continuing to see its Egypt footprint grow with a number of initiatives aimed at promoting the country’s struggling education system. Intel Egypt and its partner Edu Systems International (ESI) have extended the widely popular skool.com program into Egypt as part of the government’s education initiatives and is expected to be rolled out to classrooms nationwide by the end of this month.

Developed and produced by Intel’s Innovation Center, the skool initiatives allow students and teachers access to new technologies in order to give students a more interactive and fun learning environment.

Currently available in 25 countries and seven languages worldwide and used by more than three million students, Egypt’s move to join the network is being hailed by government and Intel officials alike.

“Skool sets a great example of partnership between the private sector and the public sector, which is represented in the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology,” said Khaled Elamrawi, Intel’s general manager in Egypt, Levant and North Africa, in a statement to CAJ News.

Elamrawi says that much of the company’s growth comes from emerging markets including Egypt. He added that some 70 percent of Intel’s recent expansion has been in developing nations, where “we realize the significance of collaborating with the IT ecosystem and local communities in order to empower tomorrow’s generation of innovators.”

The program was developed on a library of multimedia resources for mathematics and science teaching and learning. Ideally, it makes the learning process fun for children who are all-too-often bored with rote memorization of figures and facts.

Its content is instructional, interactive and collaborative and includes multimedia, text, audio and visual content. In addition, it uses open-ended tools to encourage students to explore beyond the educational content–CAJ News.