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Integrating the new technologies in classroom at Arauco province, Origenes-Program

The event was on June the 20th at Licahue Hotel and it was organized by the program Origins of the Education Ministry. Approximately more than 40 persons atended among teachers and school directors that are part of the Program origins and of the Mineduc Schools, from Arauco Province.

The main objective of the training was that teachers know and learn how to use the audiovisual and computer equipment acquired due to the Program Origins of Intercultural and Bilingual Education, of the Education Ministry. The computer equipment includes a Notebook, Video projector, a DVD and a VHS, Video Camera and a Television, giving them to pedagogical purposes to support the teaching labor to improve the students learning. The assistant teachers were very pleased and grateful with the workshop and very cheerful to find new pedagogical applications to these products. This program also includes a training for the teachers of the Bío- Bío Province, which be carried out by i-Education Holdings on July 1st.

Steady steps to concrete the incentive for the adoption of new technologies

The Law Project that will be send to the Congress was signed by Mr. Andrés Velasco, the Treasury Minister, at the Liceo Industrial Vicente Pérez Rosales, in presence of its Director Mr. Julio Moreno and Miss Sara Basilacos, Marketing and Services Manager from i-Education Holdings.

This plan contains measurements that not only will made our country be more prepared to face the challenges of the new agreements of Free Trade but also it willbring real benefits for the base of our social growing, that is education, the same will apeen to the educational establishments that use intensive technology tools, tio improve the learning, because one of the 15 measurements that is planned to adopt is about the Chilean enterprises to adopt new technologies with the purpose of giving better services to the users.

The incentive planned in the project is to standarize in a 15% the additional tax for the payments of importing software, formula, patents, engineering works and technical advising.

In case of education, this iniciative will let Chilean students to have tools of top level, intensive in avant-garde technologies, like the ones offered by MiClase School in different educational establishments, among them, the Liceo Vicente Pérez Rosales, a better prices and with major quality.

The signing of the project of Incentive of the adoption of New Technologies Law, will benefit the usage of the software MiClase School, among others, because at getting down additional tax of import, the cost of development will be also reduced, that, will allow the company to be more competitive internationally, the best technology may come to the country, with minor investments and the final user may have access to the best educational technology at a lower price.