Back to school isn’t just stationery runs anymore. Tech gadgets have become a staple of classrooms. Thick textbooks and printouts have been replaced by ebooks and PDFs, no longer requiring students to lug around a 10-pound backpack every day. Digital learning has made education more flexible and interactive. The impact goes far beyond convenience. The new era of learning demands new tools and skills. Preparing kids for the school year has also become about equipping them with the right digital tools and skills to thrive in a technology-driven classroom. But the digital revolution in classrooms brings its own challenges too. For one, this means a massive increase in screen time for kids, way more than what the earlier generation was exposed to.
The solution is to carefully pick the tools that are designed to tackle these issues. While glare-free screens are making an appearance on tablets, many brands reserve such screens for the most expensive flagship models, which might be beyond the reach of most parents. Identifying this gap in what students require, Huawei has made its popular PaperMatte Display available on the affordable student tablet HUAWEI MatePad 11.5.
This display comes with enhanced anti-glare and anti-reflective layers with paper-like comfort, providing comfortable viewing under classroom fluorescents, bus windows, and kitchen lights. Eye comfort allows students to push longer sessions without fatigue. The paper-like surface also adds gentle friction for pen control, helpful for handwriting accuracy and diagramming, just like writing on paper. A low-gloss, paper-like finish reduces that scanning pressure and makes dense PDFs and e-textbooks feel closer to print, encouraging deeper reading sessions.
Digitisation of classrooms has presented yet another challenge of juggling multiple devices. Even as students rely on tablets for convenient reading, most student tablets are not up to the task when it comes to working on documents, slides, and spreadsheets, necessitating a laptop. The MatePad 11.5 bridges this gap with its desktop-style WPS suite, which mirrors the full PC layout for word processing, presentations, and even advanced spreadsheet functions like formulas. Paired with the Smart Keyboard and an external mouse, it transforms into a workstation, letting students manage cursor-level tasks such as selecting ranges, aligning slides, and cleaning citations.
Handwriting support using the HUAWEI M-Pencil keeps the cognitive benefits of handwriting alive, too. With the Resource Centre in HUAWEI Notes, students can structure their notebooks by subject, add covers, and even stickers, making it easy to keep things tidy. For art classes, GoPaint comes preloaded on the tablet, giving students a ready-to-use canvas for sketching, painting, and building digital portfolios right from the first day of school.
The HUAWEI MatePad 11.5 pulls together everything students need in a single affordable device. It acts as a reader, notepad, paint studio, and office suite all in one, meaning less to buy, charge, and maintain.
