NEWS: RM33,000 to set up e-classroom

SJK (C) Kwong Hon in Sungai Besi is now equipped with a smart e-classroom for a technology-enhanced learning experience, with a donation of RM33,000 from SP Setia Foundation.

To get the smart e-classroom up and running, the foundation spent RM10,500 on the basic facilities consisting of a personal computer, LCD projector and screen, speaker, custom-made table, a Digital Visualiser and a Central Control.

Joyful lot: Lee (centre) presenting a mock cheque to SJK(C) Kwong Hon’s Board of Governors member Datuk Seri Lee Wei Ming (with tie). Looking are the school’s headmistress Lau Siew Eng, Setia Learning Academy’s general manager Liew Siong Sing and the school’s pupils.

The balance of RM22,500 was used to buy 300 sets of study desks and chairs to equip six classrooms at its newly completed four-storey school building, to allow for single session schooling.

Foundation chairman Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye said Malaysia was going full gear towards a knowledge-based economy, hence funding the smart e-classroom was in line with the Education Ministry’s directive to embrace ICT applications in the school's teaching and learning setting.

“With the ever-evolving use of ICT technology, the learning mode has changed to become more facilitatory and collaborative in nature. Thus I hope this e-classroom will encourage students here to achieve better knowledge retention via the interaction with the technology and multimedia,” he said.

He said the biggest portion of the foundation's annual budget was reserved for educational cause, as education has the power to change someone's life for the better.

Lee said the foundation spent RM2mil every year on the Setia Adoption Programme, which was currently helping 2,300 students pursuing primary, secondary and tertiary education. Each student is given basic educational needs worth RM900 every year.

“SJK (C) Kwong Hon is one of the best performing schools under the programme and I hope the sponsorship will further encourage the students and teachers to keep up with their excellent performance,” he said.

Lee added that the foundation would hold a fund-raising dinner on July 12 at Sunway Resort, to be attended by Health Minister Datuk Liow Tiong Lai. The dinner is targeted to raise RM5mil.