The Gauteng Department of Education will now be installing all paperless classroom tablets with security software that will make it possible to recover stolen tablets.
The Gauteng Department of Education recently announced that it will recall tablets that were given to schools as part of the department’s mission to create paperless classrooms. The tablets will be taken back temporarily in order to install security software.
This comes after forty tablets were stolen at Steve Biko Secondary School in Hammaanskraal, among other schools in the province. The Steve Biko Secondary School was one of the first schools to be broken into, an incident that resulted in criminals taking 40 tablets as well as cell-phones. With the technology that’s being installed into the tablets, stolen gadgets will be recovered within 24 hours. It is expected that by 2019, all high schools in Gauteng will be paperless.
The department has been in the forefront when it comes to promoting paperless classrooms, compared to other provinces in the country. Despite the criminal activity that has been taking place in the schools since the awarding of the tablets, the department is confident that nothing will stop them from providing Gauteng learners with the e-learning experience. The tablets will now be equipped with extra security features such as tracking devices.
E-learning benefits learners because of its faster delivery cycle as compared to a conventional classroom-based instruction, e-learning provides learners with a platform for obtaining more information, quicker. With e-learning, learners basically have a reliable research source in their fingertips. This is why more and more governments across the world are pushing for e-classroom, South Africa is following in those footsteps.
