Gaza's schoolchildren get first taste of interactive learning
A publishing company in the West Bank is introducing e-books and interactive learning to primary school students, which despite the power outages has been a success so far.
Despite the challenges caused by the ongoing electricity cuts, the education sector in the Gaza Strip is turning more toward interactive learning, mainly through e-books.
One of the companies that has started publishing e-books is Interactive Books and Active Learning (IBAL), which is based in the West Bank and has a team in Gaza. The company employs 43 educators, designers and programmers to develop interactive learning materials for primary school children. These e-books range from mathematics to Arabic language and contain more than 12,000 interactive exercises, Abdullah Mustafa, the company's general manager, said in an interview with the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation.
Maysa Muheisen, a Gaza-based English teacher and mother, told Al-Monitor that the e-books on mathematics and Islamic education are in demand, with the latter offering detailed explanations of the Quran that are useful in answering children's questions.
She said that learning the Arabic language has become easier with the e-books' interactive methods in grammar and vocabulary. “A [traditional] schoolbook does not provide a student with the necessary explanation to an incorrect answer. Who helps a child if the parents don’t know the answer either?” she said, adding that e-books provide good explanations and an interactive method that makes practicing through repetition easier.
