The smart class is a digitalized way of education which renders quality education to students by helping them in better concept formation, concept elaboration, improvement in reading skills and academic achievement. As Smart Devices infiltrated in every sector of the market to make people’s life easier, the educational institution can’t be an exception.
Many institutions have increased their investment to bring classroom technologies with the assumption to increase teaching and learning outcome. Technology helps to reduce academic, administrative and management stress and workload by automating many deeds. With the advent of new classroom technologies such as Smart Boards, Interactive Pads, document visualisers, Tablets, Smart Lecture Podiums, Feedback Devices, traditional classrooms turn into smart classrooms.
The primary objective of Smart Classroom is to increase students’ engagement in learning-oriented environment. Greater engagement leads to greater understanding which turns into greater academic achievement.
Recently Govt of India is going to introduce a new National Education Draft policy to transform the national education system, which proposes to standardize education according to current digital world scenario. It will focus to create a skilled workforce to tackle the problem of unemployment. Technology will help to achieve this target to a greater extent.
This is obvious that visualization of things helps to memorize them easily. We simply do not forget the events we watch on television. Similarly, Smart Classroom illustrates the educational content in the form of animated videos, photos, 3D maps, graphs and flowcharts, this makes learning more interactive, interesting and understandable. Smart Classroom improves the ability of students to memorize and learn the topic for a prolonged period of time.
Let’s have a look at the functionalities of different technologies introduced in Smart Classrooms.
Smart Whiteboard:
Smartboard is the integral component of Smart Classroom which replaces the traditional black/whiteboard. Smartboard turns a typical lesson into fun, and more interactive. Smartboard enhances the teaching and learning experience of both teacher and students respectively by projecting visual elements. Touch screen feature of SmartBoard allows the teacher to run any computer program on the tap of her fingers. It provides complete virtual mathematical and scientific tools to explain the topics visually. Smart board provides cloud functionality with enriched multimedia content to use in ongoing explanations. Students enjoy the learning by visualizing animated videos, pictures, maps, graphs in a larger size of Smart Board.
Document Visualiser:
Another indispensable component of Smart Classroom is Document Visualiser. It provides additional add-on functionalities to Smart Class. Document Camera or Visualiser has the ability to project even a tiny content in a larger size to the audience without losing the content quality. This helps to display any small object, page or microscopic content in crystal clear quality to students at the same time.
Teacher can annotate on the live projected document to explain the matter to all students at once. Hence it saves the time of displaying the same content to each and every student one by one. Visualiser also has the ability to record the lecture with clear sound quality in popular video codecs. Which can be distributed or used to upload on the website of the institution.
Smart Lecture Podium:
Teachers usually use simple podium to deliver their lectures. This simple podium can be replaced by State-of-the-Art Smart lecture podium to facilitate teaching and learning. Smart Podium provides a cutting-edge, multimedia learning environment, that allows both instructor and participants to think creatively and innovatively.
Smart podium integrates all the equipment of Smart Classroom such as Computer System, Touch Monitor, Projector, Visualiser and Public Addressing Systems. All the multimedia equipment can be accessed simply by pressing the pre-programmed button designed in the podium, which makes it simple to use and operate.
Other crucial components of Smart Classroom are Projectors, Tablets, Writing Pads, Laptops and so on.
In a nutshell, Smart Classrooms are the classrooms of this new digital era, no institution can survive without introducing a minimal set of technologies in its classrooms in this fast pacing digital world. Smart class not only improve learning outcome but also helps to create a skilled workforce as well.
-by Vantage Avcom