This project proposal outlines plans to upgrade science classrooms at Universiti Brunei Darussalam to provide a safer and more comfortable learning environment for students. The goals are to improve seating arrangements so all students can see the teacher, optimize the layout with adjustable lighting and smart glass walls, and incorporate technology like individual workstations with laptops/iPads and a large interactive board for demonstrations. CCTV and high-speed fiber optic internet would also be installed to monitor students, submit assignments electronically, and facilitate smooth data transfers. Diagrams provide a bird's-eye view of the proposed classroom layout.
2. Executive Summary
Objective
To provide students with safe and comfortable learning environment.
Goals
Upgrade current Science classrooms with more technology and fix minor malfunctions
Solution
The solutions for a better future are listed into 3 categories which are seating arrangement, layout of the room and
technology that are build into the classroom.
Seating Arrangement
The teacher’s bench will be located at the centre of the room which is surrounded by the students’ bench. The students’
bench are located in front and at both side of the teacher’s bench. This is so that every students can see and hear the
teacher so that they don’t left out any instructions.
Layout of the Room
The room must be brightly coloured with adjustable lighting. This ensures that experiments that are needed to be conducted
in the dark can be achieved. The room must be coloured with soft coloured paint to avoid fatigue on the eyes. A glass for a
wall ensures natural lighting fills the room. The glass wall is made up of Smart glass which can turn opaque to allow privacy
or to allow some experiment to be conducted in the dark. The degree of opaque can be controlled to adapt for each lesson.
Technology That Are Build Into the Classroom
Each students will have their own workstation. Each workstation is composed of iPads/laptops with high speed internet.
This ensures that information can be obtained from the internet whenever the student needs it. This eliminates the need of
looking at a book which requires trees to be cut down just to be made. In simple words, It reduces pollution and saves the
forest.
The teacher will have a large board to show students demonstration of experiments which cannot be done in conventional
classrooms. Such practicals are dissection of human or a nuclear reaction in the nuclear plant. The boards can be in the
form of smart board, interactive white board or the prototype interactive wall that is designed by Panasonic.
CCTV should be installed in the class as well to monitor progress of students remotely. This encourages the students to do
their work and it also serves as a form of security to prevent theft.
Fibre optic wires should be used so that transferring data can be smooth. Students can hand in their homework or
classwork without the lag which can corrupt the data.
Future Science Classroom with Unlimited Budget
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3. The diagram below is a sketch of the proposed classroom in bird’s eye view.
Future Science Classroom with Unlimited Budget
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