This document discusses smart classrooms, which use computers, multimedia, and networking technologies to enhance classroom learning. Smart classrooms aim to improve teaching effectiveness and make learning more engaging for 21st century students by bringing concepts to life through interactive technologies. Key features of smart classrooms include equipment like projectors, speakers, and internet access to facilitate active learning through student presentations, discussions, and interactions between globally connected classrooms. Research shows that students taught in smart classrooms tend to achieve better academic results compared to those in traditional classrooms. While smart classrooms have advantages, their widespread implementation faces challenges due to high costs and lack of infrastructure in underprivileged areas.

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2. Contents:
• What is a Smart Classroom
• Why smart classroom
• The 21st Century Learner
• The idea behind Smart Classrooms
• Equipment
• Active Learning
• Active Teaching
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• The Smart Classroom Experience
• Research
• Development
• How to begin
• Conclusion

3. What is a Smart Classroom?
• An electronically enhanced Classroom.
• Use computers ,multimedia and network
technologies.
• Also called Digital or new media classrooms.
• Interactive teachings along with the use of different types of visual
equipment

4. Why smart classroom
Old Car Today’s car
Old Music player
Old way of mailing
Old teaching methods
current way of mailing
Today’s Music player
Today’s teaching methods

5. The 21st Century Learner
Creative MobileMultitasking
Collaborative Producers
Hence, we need smart classrooms

6. The idea behind Smart Classrooms
• To Improve teacher’s effectiveness and productivity in class.
• To brings abstract and difficult curriculum concepts to life inside classrooms.
• To Make learning an enjoyable experience for students.
• To Improve academic performance of students.
• To Enable instant formative assessment of learning outcomes in class.
• To enable teachers to instantly assess and evaluate the learning achieved
by their students in class.

7. Equipment
• A Computer
• Internet Access
• DVD Player
• Room Speakers
• Laptop Connections for
Guest Speakers
• LCD Projector
• Projector Screen

8. Active Learning
• Research in the science of “learning” emphasizes the importance of requiring
students to be active inventors rather than passive recipients.
• Students can show their assignments and discuss them
• Beneficial for students with limited motor skills
• Students can have discussions and competition with other students from
different countries of the world

9. Active Teaching
• No need for teachers to check question papers or assignments.
• Quick response from students
• Distant teaching made possible
• Expert Teachers from all over the world can teach hundreds of students at
once

10. Advantages
• Interaction with students and teachers from different countries.
• Students respond well to video clips illustrating a concept –YouTube
• Students can record Lecture and Notes
• Develops interests in students

11. Teaching Chemistry in a Smart Class

12. Disadvantages
• Costly to integrate into schooling
• Equipment requires maintenance
• Under privilege schools do not have access to such technology
• Teachers lack training and technical difficulties

13. The Smart Classroom Experience
• Smart Classrooms can enhance content and presentation
• PowerPoint presentation which reviews the major points of the lesson.
• With the computer's desktop being projected relevant Internet sites can
add variety to any lesson.
Empower students
• Student presentation using PowerPoint
• Show their assignments and discuss them

14. Research
Survey done by
SMART® Multimedia Classrooms:
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From a survey, normal students were compared to those who were taught in a smart classroom.
The same syllabus, question paper and same teachers were provided to both sides.
Result clearly shows that students who studied in smart classrooms got better results every time.

15. Research
Survey done by
SMART® Multimedia Classrooms:
In 2004, an overwhelming majority of faculty (86.8%) expressed the desire to use Smart
classrooms, while 13.2% of them believed that existing Classrooms met their
requirements.
Results
Will prefer to teach through smart classroom Satisfied with traditional teaching methods

16. Development
• Smart Class technology is already widespread in western countries’ schools
• Smart Classrooms can make a positive and remarkable difference in how
teachers teach and learners learn.
• Students/Teachers prefer Smart Classrooms
• In Pakistan there are also a few smart classrooms

17. OK looks interesting, how to I begin?
• Take your time adapting to this new technology
Start to use one piece at a time
• PowerPoint/Adobe pdf –give your lectures
• Add some Smart Board interaction
• Create Podcasts of your lectures
• Post them on the internet

18. Conclusion
• Smart Classrooms have a positive impact on students
• Develops interests in students
• Provides more flexibility to teachers
• Unfortunately it can not be implemented all over the world.

19. Thank You

20. Questions?