Turnover of smart technocart to La Trinidad Central School

THE Smart Technocart is a complete mobile laboratory designed to enable learning and teaching through use of mobile education solutions, such as tablets and internet technology for Kindergarten pupils. Educational app develops essential thinking skills among children. Parents using iOS-powered smartphones and tablets can now download for free the Batibot mobile application, an interactive version of the beloved TV… The Technocart is a compact and portable container of 25 tablets for the use of students; a tablet, laptop, and projector for the use of the teacher; Smart Bro pocket wi-fi with load for connectivity; and the Smart One Campus; a learning management system to help administrators and teachers to track and measure their student’s academic performance. Akin to a cart, it has wheels that make it easy for teachers to transfer the laboratory from one classroom to another and a design made to secure everything inside.

Apart from providing an effective tool for education, teachers are also given training on tablet basics well as on child and curriculum development provided by the Community of Learners Foundation (COLF) to help schools optimize of the Technocart.

The Smart Technocart tablets come pre-loaded with the Batibot mobile app. This is the first localized mobile app aligned with the kindergarten curriculum based on the hugely popular children’s television show. Makes available educational content from the TV show into the mobile devices for mobility, accessibility, and ultimately for a fun learning experience. Just like the TV show, the Batibot app is also in Filipino.

By Marites S. Bugtong