UNICEF DIGITAL LEARNING CENTERS: MODERN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR MYKOLAIV STUDENTS

Six Digital Education Centers in Mykolaiv are already providing educational services for children.

There are six Digital Education Centers in Mykolaiv, coordinated by the Association of Innovative and Digital Education with the support of UNICEF and the Mykolaiv City Council.

The mission of the Digital Education Centers is to provide education to students who do not have full access to offline education and help them catch up on their educational losses.

On Wednesday, April 2, the Digital Education Center №45 was officially opened on the premises of Mykolaiv Lyceum №53.

The event was attended by:

• Mayor of Mykolaiv Oleksandr Senkevych,

• Audrey LeComte, Head of the UNICEF Odesa office,

• UNICEF Education Project Coordinator Anatoliy Ihnatovych,

• Head of the Education Department of Mykolaiv City Council Hanna Lychko,

• Dmytro Bondarenko, Deputy Head of the Association of Innovative and Digital Education,

• Oksana Voronkina, project manager of the Association of Innovative and Digital Education, project coordinator in Mykolaiv region.

  
  

  The guests got acquainted with the work of the Center, discussed its further development, and attended an interactive lesson conducted using the Minecraft Education game platform, talked to students and learned about their impressions of such training.

  
  

  “The city authorities are consistently working to create a favorable environment for children and adolescents to learn and socialize. Our partners, in particular, UNICEF and the Association of Innovative and Digital Education, provide significant support in this area. We are sincerely pleased that six centers are already operating in Mykolaiv, where students in grades 1-11 can acquire knowledge using modern technologies and spend their free time safely and usefully,” says Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych.

  
  

  Since the beginning of 2024, a network of 46 Digital Learning Centers (DLC) has been launched to provide access to education in the southern regions of Ukraine, implemented by UNICEF and the Association for Innovative and Digital Education with the support of the Government of Japan and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE).

Children aged 6 to 18 study at Digital Education Centers. Here, they can:

• use Artificial Intelligence to determine which subjects and topics from the school curriculum they need to catch up on

• learn through interactive case studies and flipped classroom technology

• receive individualized consultations through a special application (Uber School);

• acquire the skills that are most in demand through Lessons for Life;

• have fun with benefit through a special educational program “Minecraft Education”;

• determine their level of proficiency and master Ukrainian and English;

• receive psycho-emotional support;

• create a Passport of Abilities for 1,000+ modern professions with the help of certified vocational adaptive testing, determine the profession of your dreams and build an individual trajectory for further education and career.

“The focus of each DLC is on children with limited access to education who need additional academic and psycho-emotional support, including children with disabilities and internally displaced students. The centers not only help to overcome educational losses, but also offer career guidance programs, educational games and various activities. This creates conditions for live communication and social interaction both within each Center and between participants from different locations,” said Audrey LeComte, Head of UNICEF Odesa Office.

The coordinator of the Digital Education Centers in Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kherson regions is the Association of Innovative and Digital Education, which, with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, has been successfully developing the Network of Ukrainian Education Hubs in Ukraine, as well as in the EU, the UK, Japan and the USA since the beginning of the full-scale war.

“We want not just to open Digital Education Centers, but to create full-fledged educational hubs for children, teenagers and their parents in the communities most affected by the war. These should be spaces where you want to come back - where it is interesting, safe, and really useful to spend time,” said the deputy head of the Association of Innovative and Digital Education Dmytro Bondarenko.

Announcements of events at the Digital Education Center №45 are available here: https://t.me/mykolayivskyy53 .