What is smart classroom? Explain the components of smart class. Write advantages and limitations of smart class.
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Smart Class is edtech-upgraded classroom that cultivate education by opening doors to digital teaching and learning methods for both the teachers and the students by coordinating latest advancements in technology with academics. The objectives of such classrooms are to invoke interest in education among the student by introducing them to real-time e-learning with help of audios and videos, multimedia, images, online web conferences, PPT presentations, 2D & 3D animations, etc.
Smart class technology ensures the education reaches every student with different level of understanding equally. Moreover, implementing this kind of classroom education enhances student-teacher interaction and collaboration.
Advantages of Smart Classes
Improves student-teacher interaction and communication
Real-time blended teaching and learning
Gives students a better understanding of concepts
Introduces students and instructors to education technology
Improves visualization and creativity
Provides students a better in-classroom experience
Encourages e-learning and Virtual Classroom
Improves academic performance of students thereby enhancing their mental and physical development
Online web-based learning
Student tend to learn at their own phase
Easy-to-use and accessibility
Disadvantages of Smart Classes
Creating presentations, videos and programs are difficult
Expensive and complex to implement
High maintenance costs
Devices such as computers, digital boards, etc. are fragile and not easy to operate
Highly dependent on electricity
Requires proper network connectivity such as LAN, WAN, Internet, etc.
component of smartclass room
The equipment installed in most of the smart classrooms are:
Computer or Laptop: A computer or laptop is a basic and necessary requirement of a smart classroom. Instead of writing on board with a chalk or marker, teaching process is done by presentation or images or multimedia in a smart classroom.
Projector: it is an optical device. It projects stationery or moving objects onto a screen. They create an image by shining light through a transparent lens or by a laser.
Screen: It is a surface used to display the images projected by a projector. The screens may be rigid wall-mounted screens, pull down screens, fixed frame screens, electrical screens, switchable projection screens, or mobile screens.
Microphone: it is generally called as mic or mike. It is a device which converts audio signals into electrical signals. These signals are then transmitted, amplified or recorded.
Amplifier and Speaker: These are the electronic devices which are used to increase the volume of a sound.
Podiums: it is a platform usually made of wood which raises the person standing on it so that he becomes visual to all the audience.
Document Camera: They are also called as visual presenters, visualizers, digital overheads. They are used for displaying an object to a large audience. A document camera magnifies and projects the images of a two dimensional as well as a three-dimensional object. The object is simply placed under the document camera. The camera takes its image and produces its live image by using a projector.
Smart Podiums: They are also called smart boards or smart LCDs. It is an interactive pen display which can be connected to the computer or laptop externally via the USB port or RGB ports. It can be called as an external monitor with the facility of digital inking. With a smart podium, we can open documents, presentations, multimedia files and can write on them with a digital pen. We can also save our work.
DVD or VCD Player: There are a large number of videos available on the internet but still there is a requirement of VCD or DVD player because there are some videos which have copyright and have to be purchased. These are often in the form of DVDs or CDs.
Overhead Projector: It is a device which is used to display enlarged images of a transparent acetate sheet placed on its base on a screen. This device was very famous a few years back, but now it is being replaced by computer-based projectors.