INNOVATIVE AND CREATIVE LEARNING CENTERS PROVIDED TO LORI CHILDREN
18-12-2014 12:40:43 | | Science and Technology
Creativity Lab opened in the Village of Tumanyan as a result of
VivaCell-MTS and COAF Collaboration
VivaCell-MTS and the Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) helped realize
a long-expected dream of the children from Tumanyan community of Lori
Marz: a technology classroom, Creativity Lab, was established in the
local school, to be used by all the schoolchildren and teachers of
Tumanyan community, as well as youth from the neighboring villages.
A Creativity Lab is a learning center corresponding to the
requirements of contemporary education, equipped with a smart board,
modern computers, as well as special mobile furniture. The latter is
adaptable for working individually, in pairs and in groups.
The creative environment existing in such educational facilities
as creativity labs allows for implementation of multifunctional
activities and correlation of various tasks, including classes with
the application of computers and technologies, training sessions,
discussions, readings, games and intellectual activity. The projects
initiated and implemented jointly by COAF and VivaCell-MTS aim at
ensuring the equal development of rural communities and supplement
the village schools with informational and communication technologies.
The Tumanyan Creativity Lab is the fifth technologically enhanced
facility established as part of COAF-VivaCell-MTS partnership. Earlier
in 2013-2014, the children from Sardarapat, Vanand and Hatsik
communities of Armavir Marz and Arteni community of Aragatsotn Marz
also became beneficiaries of the joint project.
“VivaCell-MTS considers important everything related to children’s
education and their future, and supports the implementation of
such projects. Children, especially in the regions, need access to
educational tools, information sources, they need support in getting
proper education and opportunity to decently live and work in their
homeland. This project is another step on the way to achieve those
objectives”, VivaCell-MTS General Manager Ralph Yirikian stated.
In the words of Anoush Yedigaryan, COAF Director, “The concept of
Creativity Labs was first introduced in Armenia and has been widely
acclaimed as a cutting-edge means of ensuring an optimal learning and
creative environment for the younger generation, and providing them
with contemporary educational opportunities. COAF’s experience and
analysis of the educational component of its comprehensive development
programs has demonstrated that these inspirational initiatives raise
the students’ level of interest towards education and contribute to
high performance results”.
Education plays an important role for the population of Tumanyan
community, which is very educated. The local school is home to 124
students. The newly opened Creativity Lab will be one of the key
tools for developing the creative skills of rural children and raising
the overall level of education in the region. Moreover, considering
the fact that Tumanyan is located on Yerevan-Tbilisi highway and has
also a strategic geographical location, it is expected that the new
Creativity Lab will serve not only Tumanyan community, but also the
whole Tumanyan Region of Lori Marz.
– Science and Technology News from Armenia and Diaspora – Noyan Tapan –
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