Technology-based assessment app Noipunno was unveiled on Wednesday night as part of building a ‘smart education eco-system’. This app has been developed by Aspire to Innovate to assess whether the students are able to achieve the prescribed marginal qualifications in line of the new curriculum.
On Wednesday, the education minister Dr. Dipu Moni inaugurated the technology-based assessment app for the first time in the country’s education curriculum. The minister said that, this app will accurately and deeply assess the students in the new curriculum.
The education minister urged not to be confused by the misinformation about the new education curriculum and said that a circle is spreading rumors that religious education has been ignored in the new curriculum. The reality is that all subjects are given equal importance.
Dipu Moni said, ‘Many people are saying that there will be no exams in the new curriculum and there will be no religious education either. But the reality is that religious education will be evaluated in the same way as other subjects are evaluated. We want to combine education with life. Students will now be educated in life-oriented education. Education will no longer be confined within four walls.’
While speaking at the event, the ICT State Minister Zunaid Ahmed Palak expressed hope that Bangladesh will be able to earn billions of dollars through microchip design in the future.
He said that the new curriculum will make students more efficient and work-oriented to implement the goal of Smart Bangladesh. Teachers will use the Noipunno app in the assessment process of the new national curriculum.
Palak said, by 2041, our current students will enter Smart Bangladesh. The new curriculum will help make them smart citizens. The government is working to make our students up-to-date through new curriculum.
The NCTB Chairman Prof. Farhadul Islam presided over the ceremony the Deputy Minister of Education Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury Naufel, Member of Parliament Mohammad Ali Arafat, Dhaka University Emeritus Professor Syed Manjurul Islam, drama director and filmmaker Nasir Uddin Yusuf, drama personality Ramendu Mazumder, journalist and columnist Subhash Singh Roy, along with the Ministry of Education and various boards under it and the officials of the department were present. Prof. Md. Mashiuzzaman, Member (Education) moderated the event.
The Deputy Minister of Education said that our traditional education structure was dependent on the results of the students. However, the new curriculum has not been put into effect. As a result, students can learn more in the new curriculum. He said, those who are sheer memorizing, are not able to learn the language. That is why the new curriculum has come. Here the learning will not be limited to just teaching the students but the students themselves will be doing it at the same time.
National Press Club President Farida Yasmin said that every subject of the students has been beautifully included in this app. This is the proof that the journey of Smart Bangladesh has started. Initiatives have been taken to make students smart citizens from their childhood. Radical reforms in the education system have begun – which many expected. Our education system is now moving to another horizon.
Dr. Syed Manjurul Islam said that, we have to think whether we will go backwards or forward. There is a lot of misinformation about the new education program. A new education curriculum can get out of rote learning.
Dhaka University Professor M Tariq Ahsan presented a documentary film on the background of educational transformation.
It was informed in the event that the app has been developed under the guidance of Ministry of Education, Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education, Directorate of Primary Education, National Curriculum and Textbook Board (NCTB) and was implemented by UNICEF.
At the event, a2i officials said that Noipunno App will be the black box of the Ministry of Education. If you need any information in the future, you can get help from this app. A record of whatever the students achieve will be here. Student information can be stored in this app. Students can view their achievements anytime in this app. This will be a major milestone for the education system.