Ninth graders: Online learning challenge begins

LSP 2015 includes study resources for 9th Grade English and Maths and provides free access to over 300 video lectures

ISLAMABAD:

Knowledge Platform is sponsoring a series of educational activities for ninth grade students and teachers under the banner of Learn Smart Pakistan (LSP).

Launching today with a digital learning challenge, LSP 2015 provides students and teachers access to quality education resources for Mathematics and English. The content is available for free at www.learnsmartpakistan.org. The digital contest will last for seven weeks, and is scheduled to come to a close on July 12, 2015.

LSP 2015 includes study resources for 9th Grade English and Mathematics and provides free access to over 300 video lectures, over 400 assessments and educational games, and more than 4,000 exam questions in multiple choice format.

The English solution also includes approximately 100 writing assignments for students to practice their writing skills.

The online learning challenge will be followed with pre-award tests to ensure students have achieved ranking through self-effort, a boot camp for teachers on strengthening lesson planning and game-ification skills, a writing contest for students, and a national education forum together with an awards ceremony.

LSP was introduced in 2014 as a non-profit initiative with the aim of providing Pakistan’s students and teachers with quality educational resources.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 25^th, 2015.