Jennifer Poole, Especialista en Márketing Internacional de SMART Technologies ULC; Sergio García Rozalén, Socio-Director de Mélida Multimedia, S.L. - EXPOELEARNING 2008

1. SMART at
Expo E-learning

2. Think about how different the world is
now…
compared to just
five years ago.

3. THINK about this…

4. We conduct over 61,000,000,000
Internet searches every day.
for information
Today…

5. The population of the
United Arab Emirates is
2.6 million
…yet there are 4.5 million mobile phones in
use there.

6. China has the
2nd largest Internet user base in
the world
(137 million).

7. More than
53 million
Japanese use mobile phones
to access the Internet.

8. This is the world our
children are accustomed to.

9. When our children turn 21, they
will have
watched 20,000 hours of
television
played 10,000 hours of video
games
sent/received over 250,000
e-mails or instant messages.
Tomorrow…

10. By the time they
go to their
high school’s 20th reunion...
they will have had between 10-14
jobs.

11. This is the world in which
our children will live.

12. Many of today’s college
subjects didn’t exist 20
years ago,
such as new media
organic agriculture
e-business
nanotechnology
and homeland security.

13. So what will they study 10 years
from now?

14. The world’s education systems are
challenged.
Challenged to prepare students for jobs that haven’t
been invented yet.
Challenged to teach them how to solve
problems we don’t even know about today.

15. Yet, in spite of the tools available to
educators…
And in spite of our children’s
desire to use them…
We continue to teach them
with tools invented 200 years
ago!

16. Research says
use technology to enhance education and to improve
classroom outcomes.

17. Research says
•Interactive whiteboards (IWBs) have a positive impact
on students’ performance (Becta)
•SMART products improve students’ performance and
teachers’ lives (UVa)
•IWBs and digital content increase engagement,
motivation, participation and test scores (European
Schoolnet)

18. Educators say
technology alone
is not enough to
guarantee success.

19. Educators say
•Keys to success in technology implementation
•Training
•Support
•Content
•Ease of use

20. Students say
•Keys to success in technology implementation 21st-
century students need to learn differently
•Experience, active learning is central
•Knowledge is always in context
•Reputation, accomplishments are measures of quality
•Technology enables a new mindset, a new skill set
•Fluency in multiple media
•Learning based on collectively seeking,
sorting and synthesizing experiences

21. SMART says
•Support education that gives students the skills and tools
they need to fully engage in a competitive global economy
•Contribute positively to the health of education systems
worldwide
•Develop best-in-class technology products that support
21st-century teaching and learning
•Begin every initiative with consideration for those most
affected by our actions: students

22. Why
choose
SMART
Technologies?

23. The SMART solution
•Best products
•Easiest to use
•Widest range of IWBs
•Touch-based
•Most intuitive collaborative
•learning software
•Largest content offering

24. The SMART solution
•Best support and value-added resources
•Extensive product training
•Technical training
•Online support through education.smarttech.com
•Teacher resources through education.smarttech.com
•Installation support
•Technical support – directly through SMART and
•through local distributors

25. The SMART solution
•Ongoing innovation
•Significant investment in R&D, user
focused
•Inventions
•SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard
•DViT™ (Digital Vision Touch) technology

26. The SMART solution
•Broadest experience
•SMART Board interactive whiteboard launched in
1991
•In over 600,000 classrooms
•Reaching more than 18 million students
•In more than 100 countries
•In all the top 100 school districts in the United
States

27. Thank-you