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Smarter Choice
By: Sheryl Lane When chalk, board, and pointing sticks were just about all they could use in classrooms, teachers were bound to their confines in presenting learning materials, while students were gazing at the board, struggling to ’decode’ the equations that soon will be wiped out to make room for, yet, even more complicated equations.
 With the advancement of technology, educators’ are facing new challenges in a dynamic learning environment, having to cope with emerging Advanced Education Tools some of which familiar to their students. And when students are so smart – what’s more challenging than “Smarter Classroom”?
Smart classrooms equip faculty with audiovisual tools augmenting their lectures with rich content from Cable / Online Television, DVD / Online Movies, On the air / On the net Radio Programming, Internet and Smart Boards delivered over an array of Audiovisual facilities provided under the Smart Classroom concept including Sound Systems, large LCD screen, Projectors & Projection Screens.
Smart Classrooms features and capabilities include: Whiteboards, CD/DVD, Video for VHS playback, Camcorder Interface, Built in sound system, Laptop Interface, Large LCDs, Projector, and Page / Object Projectors - all controlled from a central audiovisual control panel within the instructor’s desk (Podium).
Smart Classrooms features and capabilities include: Whiteboards, CD/DVD, Video for VHS playback, Camcorder Interface, Built in sound system, Laptop Interface, Large LCDs, Projector, and Page / Object Projectors - all controlled from a central audiovisual control panel within the instructor’s desk (Podium).
With Smart Classrooms, educators can provide a more intellectually-challenging environment for students, while integrating computer and audiovisual technologies for easy and effective multimedia presentations. In addition, teachers can instruct students remotely and view the same screen just like teaching face-to-face. Interactive whiteboards capture learners’ attention and bring excitement to classrooms. Students, not otherwise having access to those technologies, can explore Cyberspace with the guidance of their teachers, able to use multimedia resources and the internet with an entire classroom.
In a world, in which internet users demand “instant responses”, smart classrooms allow educators to save, print, email and even paste into a website – pages automatically. Students can use a digital pen to take down their notes, which are automatically synchronized to be reviewed and analyzed later, online, on their home machines, along with the option to hear the instructor explaining a particular concept.
Smart Classrooms will not necessarily produce better education; they can be complicated and too difficult to operate and if educators are not properly trained a Smart Classroom can become a deterrent to education. In addition – classrooms are not the only environment where students learn therefore, improving the entire learning-space may be the way to go, including libraries and cafeterias and even home systems; implementing an optimal intelligent surrounding for knowledge craving, students.
Smart classrooms can Integrate Voice Response (IVR) where a teacher can ‘say to the board’: “next page”, or a virtual mouse detected by motion stimulation. Teachers can also use hand gestures semantically causing several operations like adding images, removing objects, scrolling pages, etc’.
The Smart Classrooms’ Intelligent Environment examines the human-computer interaction paradigm, in which educators use technology to better engage students, foster improved research, improve instruction methods and enhance classroom learning experience for better results. The intelligent facilities encourage the involvement of students in the subject and give the teacher immediate access to a vast array of resources, enlarging the scope of instructional materials.
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