The ‘Smart Schools’ project is a sustained long term program to raise IT literacy levels of schoolchildren in Sri Lanka, and augment their learning via digital education. The project seeks to expose traditional classroom teachers and students to the latest digital learning technology and systems, stimulating wider use of IT in schools.
The Sunday Observer team visited two rural schools in the Horana and Moronthuduwa areas recently, together with officials of the Commercial Bank to observe how successfully they have adapted to digital learning. The first school we visited, was Taxila Central College in Horana. We walked into the IT lab donated by Commercial Bank Ltd where Science and Math were taught using Learning Management System (LMS) through interactive boards. We spoke to some teachers and students to find out how beneficial it was, and how it has changed the learning and teaching methods.