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5 Elements of a Digital Classroom

by Amit Gupta Education Blogger

If you are asked to imagine a digital classroom, what would it look like? Maybe a space with modern design, a smartboard in place instead of the black one, individual chairs for students with headphone jacks, and a projector hanging from the roof. You may also think of it as a classroom where the teacher always brings a laptop along, shows many videos to teach, asks students to refer to eBooks instead of actual books or shows models in virtual reality. Once spelled out, all these might feel a bit far-fetched to many and naturally, the concept of digital classrooms is often overestimated. It is actually a physical classroom where digitisation exists to some level. Every part of education not is touched by technology.

To give you the actual picture, here are 5 elements of a digital classroom that exist in the top 10 schools in Gurgaon. The essence lies with how technology is used in these classrooms, never the amount of hardware put into place.

No fixed teacher

As evident, the students of a digital classroom can choose to learn from any source, not just the teacher. It dilutes the dependency on one person and makes the entire world of the internet the children’s educator. In a digital classroom, a student may place a question directly in front of the teacher or search it on Google or post it on Quora. Relevant answers will come from all three sources and the students will end up learning no matter who answered it. Reduced dependency helps both sides. Teachers can now focus on the more complicated issues while students can clear their doubts instantaneously.

Data-driven lessons

Teaching in a digital classroom is much more personalised. Teachers can access a host of data about their students from a click of a button and design their lessons as per the findings. Previously, it was impossible for the teacher to remember the extra-curricular activities of 30 odd students along with the grades they received, the average of the entire class, attendance records, and so on. All of these data are now kept at a central database in the best school in Gurugram where the teachers can access any educational information about any student while correcting answer papers, framing questions, talking to parents, or even managing classroom behaviour.



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Created on Apr 20th 2020 13:42. Viewed 378 times.

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