INTERACTIVE CLASSROOM

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We meet again! Today  we're going to learn about an interactive classroom.

WHAT IS AN INTERACTIVE LEARNING? 

Interactive learning is a hands-on approach to help students become more engaged and retain more material. With or without a form of technology, interactive learning helps students strengthen problem solving and critical thinking skills.

BENEFITS OF INTERACTIVE LEARNING FOR STUDENTS 

1. Classroom Collaboration

This allows the students to share information easily and also work together as an integral part of the learning process. They are provided with the opportunity to partake in lessons, while it is possible for a simple cam or laptop plus an Internet connection to link the learners with their teachers on the web while sitting in their own classroom.

2. Inspiring Freedom

Interactive learning has a major role to play in differentiation and they are extremely useful to classes of various abilities. Vodcasts, podcasts as well as access to YouTube video clips enable the students to visit the content once again in case they face any difficulty after some time.

3. Fun and Enjoyable

Using interactive technology can boost engagement and motivation within the classroom. It is possible to enhance motivation as well as engagement inside the classroom by implementing interactive learning. Apart from motivating learning by making use of interactive games which will foster an element of competition, it will also enable the teachers to gamify their lessons. 

SMART CLASSROOM 

Smart Classrooms are technology enhanced classrooms that foster opportunities for teaching and learning by integrating learning technology, such as computers, specialized software, audience response technology, assertive listening devices, networking, and audio/visual capabilities.

BENEFITS OF SMART CLASSROOM FOR BOTH STUDENTS AND TEACHERS 

Blending the Best of Both Worlds

Traditional learning and cutting-edge technology both have a place in schools. Get the best of both worlds by investing in blended learning. Blended learning combines online learning with in-person communication to create a smart classroom. Digital curriculum is blended with in-class topics to promote powerful learning. 

Wearables Provide Ease of Mind

For younger students on field trips, wearable technology helps teachers and chaperones make sure that the class stays together. Monitoring health and encouraging daily activity are also possible with smartwatches. Track heart rates during recess, physical education classes, and throughout the day. Parents and teachers can also use wearable technology to ensure that children get enough sleep.

School-Wide Communication

Install monitors in individual classrooms to provide a direct connection to the central office. These monitors can stream school messages that provide daily announcements, weather updates and emergency notifications. Both students and teachers will stay safe with timely notifications about severe weather or lockdown situations.

Personalize Learning With Data

One of the biggest advantages to a smart classroom is access to analytics. Information gathered in schools can be used to personalize learning and cater to an individual student’s needs and abilities. School districts, principals, teachers and parents can all use student analytics to create a better learning environment. During class, teachers use live analytics to track student progress. Students receive timely feedback from online tests that offer an immediate score.

Importance of smart classroom in teaching and learning

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• Allow faculty to impart education digitally instead using traditional method and tools for teaching
• Deliver lecture and illustrate through Powerpoint Presentation, Word Document and through media like Audio-Video screening, interactive images
• e-learning provides a more attractive environment which creates transparency between students and teacher. And also establish a strong connection with them
• All electronic tools of this solution Faster, easier and convenient to use and very low maintenance cost.

Smart classroom operation and its gadgets

Student Response System

Student response system is the best solution for learning and teaching. A teacher teaches a lesson and puts any question related to that lesson, students use their separate response system to respond. After closing, polls the teacher can analyze report instantly generated through its software. After that they can repoll on the same topic if required otherwise they move for further discussion. Using student response system teacher also can conduct the real-time class test or organize small quiz to create excitement in students.

Interactive Whiteboard

Replacing traditional blackboard with high technology touch-sensitive whiteboard and digital pen. A Teacher can project an image, document on the touch-sensitive whiteboard. He can conduct any lesson and illustrate on this board using his finger and digital pen as well. With a lot of features, interactive whiteboard adds a sense of excitement to each classrooms session.

Document Camera

It is also known as Visualisers or Visual Presenter. Flexible document camera uses to show any document on the large screen to a large number of audience. Document Camera magnifies any docs or objects and projects it on display. large zoom capacity and other inbuilt features it is very useful in the classroom in higher education

Digital Podium

It is a smart podium with fully touch or pen touch screen and smart controller. Digital Podium has numbers of the port so that can connect multiple displays at a time. You can also connect other electronic devices externally via HDMI or VGA ports. Basically, it is a single point combining whole in one. Teacher delivers the lecture without moving anywhere in the class. In a single press move on a different display and control everything. It removes the wire mesh and hence classroom looks well organized.

Ceiling Mounted Projector

A digital projector is connected to a computer and can project the still or moving object on a large screen. it is an optical device of two type, long through the projector and short through projecture. In a large classroom long through projector can be used for better performance.

This is video that I've found that can be watched for everyone to see what smart classroom is all about. Have fun watching!

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