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Smartphones, Smart TVs, Smartwatches and Intelligent schools: The demand for intelligent products is at a high level. People living in this “Intelligent” age can easily show how smart devices have dramatically improved their lives.

But is there anyone who can answer how efficient is an intelligent school system? Does an intelligent school influences the development of children? Or is it just another trick to score better than traditional schools?

Let us try and answer all your questions here so you can decide why it’s imperative to introduce smart classes in schools.

Let’s start with the million dollar question: What is an Intelligent School?

Intelligent school is a technology-based teaching-learning facility that prepares Multimedia tools such as movies, photos, audio, slides, etc. to make the learning process more effective. Unlike traditional schools, the curriculum and guidelines are not rigid, and teachers can use a variety of multimedia tools to improve their learning.

The definition of intelligent schools seems to be simple. However, the impact of introducing smart classes in schools should be considered. Most of today’s smart schools use advanced technologies to transfer the traditional school curriculum. In other words, these schools follow the traditional curriculum and only use new technologies to disseminate information. On the contrary, some educational institutions use intelligent education systems to change education processes completely and overcome the traditional education system.

Intelligent school goals – that makes a difference!

Today’s goals determine the actions of tomorrow. That’s why the goals of Intelligent school are future-oriented and better aligned with the era of information and communication technology (ICT). Intelligent school system focus on the holistic development (physical, mental, emotional and psychological) of the students. It has been proven that there are no two identical persons. How can we achieve miraculous results if all students are treated equally? Intelligent schools are designed to recognize and enhance an individual’s ability to excel in the area of their choice. One of the key objectives of intelligent school systems is to promote students’ participation. In doing so, students must overcome their fears as they learn to express their opinions that prepare them for the outside world.

Intelligent School Blocks

Student Management System

To become an intelligent school, the first step is a student management system. This system automates many of your institution’s processes and allows you to focus on teaching and sharing knowledge.

Curriculum

The intelligent classroom program in schools is designed for the complete development of students. It is uniquely designed to integrate the knowledge and skills necessary for balanced and inclusive development.

Education

It gives freedom and flexibility to plan lessons unlike the traditional education system and combines learning strategies for a more effective transfer of knowledge.

Evaluation

Evaluation in an educational system is as important as the teaching-learning process. The rating in intelligent classes is continuous and integral. Accurate feedback is another important element of the evaluation in the ICT education system.

Teaching methods

Teaching methods in intelligent schools are student-centered. Teachers can use a variety of multimedia tools to develop student’s skills and talents. Teachers can even record their lessons and place them in a central network so students can consult them when needed.

After extensive discussions about Intelligent schools, it is easy to conclude that the intelligent school system is brilliant and should be introduced in schools to enable more effective student learning and development. It is true that creating intelligent schools in India is a challenge, but every step taken in this direction will make our education system and country stronger and superior!!!

In layman’s term, a flipped classroom refers to taking out the class from the classrooms. Flipped classrooms are recognized by students watching online lectures, collaborating in online discussions and carrying out research at home, unlike traditional classrooms where dependency exists on teachers or instructors.

Flipped classroom shifts the mode of instruction to a learner-centric model in which each of the topics covered in the classes are explored in depth thereby creating meaningful learner insights by leveraging technologies such as online videos to ‘deliver content’ outside of the classrooms.

In a flipped classroom, there exist many forms of content delivery. Teachers or Instructors can prepare and post the video lessons to deliver quality content to students. This helps students with convenient access to lessons any time, any place. Thus, helping in cutting down the investment of educational institutions in setting up an infrastructure.

Having said this, it becomes all the more important for institutes to understand the benefits provided by the flipped classroom. Some of the key benefits of the flipped classroom are highlighted below.

The flipped classroom provides a more application-based approach for students when compared with the traditional classroom set up (i.e. hands-on and problem-solving activities)
Provides an ease of communication process between student-teacher, student-student with no location constraints
Video sessions/lectures can be easily recorded. Students have the luxury of seeing it with replays, can pause and replay it in case of any doubts. With features of video editing, the teachers/instructors can customize the lectures based on the student’s requirements
For small educational institutions facing budget constraints, a flipped classroom can be a boon for them. As this concept provides a great value at a minimal cost
Teachers/Instructors can help students during their assigned class time without an additional burden. They can coordinate with students/learners to guide them on the best path forward. Students can receive the help from faculties for various activities. Also, with this concept, teachers find it much easier to rectify students queries and problems occurring during the course of learning

Also, there are always two sides of the coins. With benefits, there do exist some cons and limitations of this concept. Some of which are highlighted below:

For students/learners, there always exists a ‘digital divide’. As some students will have 24*7 days access to online lectures/videos and some being able to access not more than an hour on a daily basis. This is due to that fact that not all students come from the same socio-economic background
It is highly possible that some students who are prone to the traditional form of learning may fall apart in competing with their peers as they are not prepared for the independent learning
Teachers/Instructors had to put in extra time and efforts for making the content and videos apart from their scheduled working hours. This, in turn, makes some of the teachers resistant to take up this concept

To sum it up, the flipped classroom is a concept which needs to be given a thought by the educational institutes and more important for the budget sensitive educational institutes to give a serious thought to it.

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