New learning tools and classrooms for Villa Reyes school

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At a school in the

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Philippines, new learning tools and

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more classroom space answered needs

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a teacher could describe firsthand.

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I'm Bennett Blackwood.

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This is Villa Reyes Elementary

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School in San Narciso, Quezon province.

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In an April interview, teacher

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and technology coordinator Cecile Tacson

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explained that the school had

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too little space and computers

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that weren't working.

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That month, Philippine and U.S.

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service members handed over laptops,

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a television and classroom equipment.

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Two new classrooms were still

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under construction at the time.

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Listen to Tacson describe the technology gap.

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To to those students like like my

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ICT room ICT room we have we we do have

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a uh we do have uh computers but it

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is not working right now so well it's a

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good. Uh, a good chance to those

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students that are not good in computer.

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There was a later development, too.

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Philippine reporting in May said

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the two-classroom building had been

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turned over to the school.

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That happened after this April

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footage, so we're keeping those dates separate.

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The useful result is straightforward:

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more room to teach, and

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tools meant to help students

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build computer skills.

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This is an April-and-May archive story.

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Learn more through the original

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reporting and the teacher's recorded

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interview linked on our website.

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