Benefits of Smart Classes in Schools

"Smart Classes", means providing education better through presentations and videos. All the students may not understand the teaching methodology of a teacher, but can understand by smart classes. This type of teaching creates an attention and interest in them. So e-learning is absolutely better. But this should not be applied to all the topics in every subject, because imagination and visualization and application capability of student regarding the subject may be reduced. So smart classes are better only up to certain limit.

Smart classrooms are very much beneficial in teaching-learning process in a school. We make use of an appeal to audio-visual senses of students in using smart boards. These smart boards are like a computer screen which can be handled by a teacher and also by students to provide active participation.

Some of the benefits for Smart board used inside a classroom are:

1. Appeal to audio-visual senses: By using smart boards in a classroom, we are appealing to both the audio sense and visual senses of students. Learning in such a way is very effective as the information is strongly embedded in kids mind.
2. No wastage of time: In traditional type of classroom, a lot of time was wasted in drawing diagrams on the black boards, whereas in Smart-boards, diagrams are in memory and thus time is utilized more for the active learning part.
3. No chalk Dust: Some teachers and even front line students used to suffer from chalk dust getting into their eyes and lungs. This had ill effect on health. We are eliminating this health issue using smart-board.
4. Virtual field trips: Students are taken virtually to field trips while teaching, e.g. a teacher is covering a lesson on desert animals, using smart-board, we could give a tour of desert like Sahara etc. to teach this topic.
5. Marker Feature: Smart board teaching is not 'see-only', we could use special markers to underline or mark an important location while teaching.
6. Inbuilt library: Smart board have an inbuilt library in it which enables a teacher to have an instant look at it in case of requirement. He may not have to refer a real library for this.
7. Active learning: Smart boards leads to active learning process where both the teacher and the students are involved. This leads to strong reinforcement of information in students.

Smart boards have many advantages and every class room should have it for the ease of teaching learning process, though I strongly believe that only a strong motivation is the basic of any learning process.

Reference: http://www.indiastudychannel.com

The author of this article is Assistant Professor, Pioneer Institute of Professional Studies