Vernon James Vice President – Life for the Insurance Association of Jamaica (IAJ) is urging the Ministry of Education to leverage Technology to provide more access to education using smart phones and the social media. Mr James who was speaking at the Awards Ceremony for the Mathematics Teacher of the Year, and Mathematics Week, said: “We are particularly supportive of the plan to increase the usage of on-line learning platforms with a mathematics content, so that students can have easy access to information to enhance their ability to do maths, even in their spare time. We encourage you to do all in your power so that smart phones and the social media become tools of empowerment for Maths and other types of education instead of some of the negative things that this phenomenon, has been associated with recently.”Press Release Maths Teacher Awards Ceremony-2
