La Salle Greenhills sets up first electronic classroom

MANILA, Philippines - Samsung Electronics Philippines Corp. (SEPCO), software leader Sybase and digital media company PressSmart rolled out the implementation of the “e-textbook/Personal Learning Device (PEARL) project” at the La Salle Greenhills (LSGH) yesterday.

The project utilizes the latest tablet PC technology from Samsung as “a personal learning device” making textbooks, blackboards, notebooks and pens a thing of the past.

Bro. Felipe Belleza, LSGH president, said students in the honors sections from Grades 1 to 12, are covered in the pilot implementation of the PEARL project.

“SEPCO, believes that the PEARL project is a great contribution to the advancement of Philippine education into the digital information era,” said KC Park, SEPCO president. 

“It will foster the creation of new learning systems and methods in introducing the digital word as the new medium of communication in the classroom and beyond,” he said.

The project aims to eventually use the PEARL as a replacement for traditional books, traditional assignment notebooks and other school communications, a tool for presentation and other school works and for creating new learning contents and strategies.

NBN-ZTE whistle-blower Jun Lozada,LSGH information technology consultant, said LSGH students will be the first in the country’s basic education community to use the tablet PC as a personal learning device.

“SEPCO and LSGH administration believe this will prepare them well in the increasingly information-based economy and electronically networked society,” Lozada said.