The Provincial Director of Education, Elena Fernández Treviño, has announced the closing day of the Plan to Improve Digital Competition in Melilla, which will be held next Tuesday, May 20, at the IES Virgen de la Victoria. This event will end a four-year phase in which there has been significant progress in the digitization of the city’s educational centers.
"It closes a cycle that for four years has been providing technological material and training teachers in digital competition," said Fernández Treviño, who stressed that this initiative has meant an unprecedented transformation in the local education system. This program has had an investment of close to 70,000 euros.
The Provincial Director recalled during the ceremony an investment of 7 million euros was allocated to Melilla to strengthen the digital endowment of educational centers. Subsequently, this commitment was consolidated with the implementation of the ATECA Classrooms in all the centers that offer Vocational Training, with an investment of more than 50,000 euros for each of them by the Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports (MEFPyD).
“Beyond the crisis of the pandemic, the Ministry has wanted to give a boost and has increased investment and empowerment of all technological means in the classrooms,” he stressed. “This technological endowment has also meant an enormous investment in technological material, in computer equipment, tablets, computers…, but also in the training of teachers that has meant a change in the educational vision,” he said.
Development of the day
Fernández Treviño has detailed that the day of May 20 will be the closure to this entire training stage and will have the presence of a team from the Ministry of Education, headed by the Secretary of State for Education, Abelardo de la Rosa Díaz.
Throughout the morning, different interventions will be developed, such as that of the Secretary of State for Education, or that of the Director of the National Institute of Educational Technologies and Teacher Training (INTEF), Julio Albalad.
In addition, the Provincial Director explained that two round tables will be held with teachers from Primary, Secondary and Vocational Training, where challenges, advances and new tools, such as Artificial Intelligence, will be analyzed in the classroom. They will also take stock of what this Digital Competition Improvement Plan has entailed.