Smart Classrooms

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Smart Classrooms

• ISTC 201
• Ali Joffee
• Hilary Griesing
• Sheldon White
• Travis Payne

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Through journals, websites, books, and newspapers
we have discovered how significant technology is
in the classrooms today
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We are here to discuss

• What a smart classroom actually is
• What the benefits of schools have these expensive
  features
• Why there is such a need for this technology

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What are Smart Classrooms?

• Electronically enhanced lecture classrooms
• Create new opportunities
• Learning through technology

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Equipment Needed For Smart Classrooms

• Instructors station installed with a PC or Mac
  computer
• High resolution LCD video projector for computer
  and video display
• Smartboard or projection screen
• VCR, document camera, and audio system
• Connectivity to the university network
• Commonly used software
• Connections for guest laptops

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Sample classroom set up
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Sample Teacher Station
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Sample Classroom Set Up
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Example of a Smartboard
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BENEFITS OF SMART CLASSROOMS
- The presenting and teaching of information is
easier to see and understand so the use of
technology in the classroom is a positive
influence on student learning. -Technology in
the classroom creates new ways of obtaining and
presenting information and gives students new
ways of analyzing and understanding the world
around them. -A study validating the benefits
of technology in the classrooms showed that
classrooms with the use of technology have
students with positive attitudes, and a greater
inclination to learn, and an increase in student
achievement.
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BENEFITS OF SMART CLASSROOMS

• -Technology increases family involvement in
  childs schoolwork.
• - In several schools in one state students are
  provided with modems to connect their home
  computers to their schools computers increasing
  the amount of time students spent on homework and
  other school activities and increasing family
  involvement with their schoolwork.
• - Has enormous benefits for disabled children.
  Smart Classrooms can contain special technology
  to make learning easier for disabled children.

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Technology being needed

• Children need to be comfortable with common used
  technology in this day and age
• Technology gives children so many positive
  learning opportunities

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Children learn from

• An array of colors, symbols, and graphics that
  are used
• Classes are being planned as interactive not
  lecture style
• Also files can be saved and reviewed to help with
  repetition

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Can help students learn by use in different
classes

• Science
• Foreign Language
• Art

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Makes teaching more pleasurable

• Children's negative behavior declines
• Children attend school more frequently

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Overview

• Smart classrooms play a large role in educating
  the children of the future
• The use of technology in the classroom is both
  beneficial to students and greatly needed
• This technology trend will continue to grow as
  more students continue to grow from its most
  results

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Any Questions?