On August 4, the Chamber approved the National Digital Education Plan, which proposes the creation of policies inclusion programs with the aim of training teachers and managers of educational institutions to the new technologies.
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The proposal must, as usual, be discussed and approved by the senators, and to begin implementation, it must be analyzed and approved by President Jair Bolsonaro (PL). If sanctioned, the plan would still need to be regulated by the government before being put into effect.
The National Digital Education Plan comprises four main objectives: inclusion, education, training and proficiency. The proposal is authored by Deputy Angela Amin (PP-SC) and reported by Deputy Israel Batista (PSB-DF), and can still be changed during the course of Congress.
Check out some excerpts from the Plan's objectives
- “with the aim of ensuring that the entire Brazilian population has equal access to digital technologies”;
- “ensure the digital education of the younger population, stimulating and reinforcing digital and information literacy”;
- “the universalization of school connectivity to high-speed internet and with adequate equipment for internet access in educational environments”;
- “the development of skills aimed at digital literacy of young people and adults, progressively advancing towards proficiency”.
The Plan emerges as a response to one of the main challenges facing education during the Covid-19 pandemic, due to social isolation in 2020 and 2021.
The new law, if approved, will act directly on the expansion of free internet in public schools, intends to implement new courses in the area of new technologies at Fies, in addition to the distribution of digital devices for reading within the National Policy of Book.
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