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What is a smart classroom? Why is it a necessity rather than a luxury?

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The magnitude of change that the education system has undergone in recent times has been enormous. The industry has quickly progressed from traditional education to smart learning. Smart classrooms have revolutionized the education industry, preventing knowledge loss in institutions all around the world.

A smart classroom is indeed an EdTech-enhanced classroom that uses sound, video, simulations, graphics, and multimedia to improve the education and learning experience for both faculty and learners. This enhances student involvement and results in higher academic performance. This method has worked brilliantly, especially when students can’t seem to focus in an online setting—smart classes technology aids student engagement.

Technology-enabled learning is invading classrooms and paving the road for smart learning. Smart classrooms have risen to prominence as a result of the creation of modern hardware and cutting-edge software techniques to enhance education and keep track of students’ progress.

This smart classroom also assists the instructor by the use of technologies. There are many tools that can assist professors to manage their classrooms or even saving an online class for later analysis. The smart classroom is really a modern and comprehensive classroom that offers a wide range of teaching approaches.

Here are some of the reasons, which indicate the necessity of smart classrooms.

  • Enhancing the interest of the future – 

Smart classrooms ensure a future vision of student engagement, resilience, stress resistance, and flexibility for students. Smart classroom technology enables students to learn skills that would otherwise be lacking in a regular classroom setting. Employers value analytical reasoning and problem-solving abilities, and smart classes software aids in the development of these abilities through group learning. 

Smart classrooms also allow students to educate at their own speed with abundant resources, allowing them to become self-sufficient. Smart classroom technology also enables a hybrid learning paradigm, which is critical in these turbulent times.

  • Efficient than the traditional classroom – 

In a smart classroom, you can assist youngsters to grasp technology in a way that is not possible with a traditional classroom. Educators can deliver 100 percent of the entire education to students using web services and Applications. Schools that use software applications can do more. Teachers can prepare teaching materials and concentrate more on the learners’ studies with fewer administrative responsibilities. 

Faculty members do not have much opportunity to explore or change inside a traditional classroom environment. However, within a smart classroom, one could experiment in a variety of ways based on the students ’ needs.

  • The necessity of technology than before – 

The enhanced version of schooling is more interesting, which has a favorable influence on productivity. Changing the traditional school structure into such an innovative as well as practical teaching-learning structure is a fantastic idea. The utilization of smart classrooms in education causes a significant shift in learners’ learning curves. The classroom atmosphere is made more favorable to learning through the use of the web and e technologies. 

Teaching kids using computers, the web, and audio equipment will speed up the training steps and help them find the necessary skills to be future-ready. Smart classroom allows instructors to provide more to their students.

  • Technology provides you more than expected – 

When the globe comes to a halt, it becomes critical to utilize technology in order to survive, particularly in the education sector. Many academic institutions have resisted technology because they believe it requires radical changes; nevertheless, this is erroneous. New-age technologies make it simple for school administrators to implement technology without requiring any infrastructure adjustments. 

A class turns smart with the support of an integrated approach, and other administration duties that were previously hard due to an indefinite classroom closure become simple.

Conclusion

The path to creating the smart classroom has indeed been long and winding. From a classroom where communication is purely based on chalk and boards, “computer technologies” have been introduced. It integrates the best “digital ink technologies,” which helps youngsters remain focused on formal learning in a fun way, transforming the old concept of teaching. We’re developing technologically, and smart classrooms could be the right path if we can solve the issue of internet connectivity in rural areas. 

Using augmented reality, intelligent systems, and VR technology, smart classrooms could be implemented while children are there in the class. Some educational players utilize readily available technology, like desktops, to construct software packages on computers and educate people using it, which is indeed a type of smart classroom. Different industries, especially education, will begin to evolve by becoming “smart” with their own methods as technology advances.

Digital Classrooms are gaining popularity among students and teachers all around the world, who are excited about these newly immersive and engaging learning sessions. To keep up with the present educational environment, the smart classroom strategy allows for the use of a desktop, projection, web, and audio equipment.

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10 schools in Kanpur get bomb blast threat through emails

The district administration has rushed the bomb disposal squad to the schools in order to sanitise the premises. Joint Commissioner of Police Law and Order, Harish Chander said the police’s cyber cell is investigating the matter.

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At least 10 schools in Kanpur received threatening emails on Wednesday which triggered panic in the city. This comes after a number of such emails threatening schools and hospitals with bomb blasts in many cities across India, including Delhi were received. The emails have come through servers which are based in Russia.

According to reports, the emails threatened to blow up the schools. The district administration has rushed the bomb disposal squad to the schools in order to sanitise the premises. Joint Commissioner of Police Law and Order, Harish Chander said the police’s cyber cell is investigating the matter.

Speaking to the media, Chander said the Kanpur Police received information about a bomb threat to various schools. The cyber cell is investigating the matter. All officials have been instructed to monitor CCTV footage thoroughly to establish a link between this threat and previous bomb threats which were received by multiple schools, airports and hospitals.

He also urged parents not to a panic. On Tuesday, 8 schools in Bengaluru received emails threatening bomb blasts. Last week, the city’s popular hospital chain, St Philomena, received a bomb threat email. All these bomb threat emails later turned out to be hoaxes.

 Bhavan Bangalore School, Bengaluru Scottish School, Deeksha High School, Jain Heritage School, Chitrakoota School, Edify Schools, Giridhanva School and Gangothri International Public School were among those that received the threat email from the same domain, Beeble.com.

Delhi’s GTB Hospital, Deep Chand Bandhu Hospital, Hedgewar Hospital and Dada Dev Hospital also received bomb threats via email. The city’s administration scrambled bomb detection team, the bomb disposal squad, fire department and the local police to conduct searches. Over the last one month, Indira Gandhi International Airport, over 20 hospitals and more than 100 schools across Delhi-NCR region have received such threats, but all of them turned out to be hoaxes. On Monday, over 50 schools in Jaipur received similar bomb threat emails.

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CUET-UG: National Testing Agency postpones exam in Delhi

Professor Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar spoke about the examination and said, due to unavoidable reasons, the 4 papers scheduled on 15 May in the Centres of Delhi have been rescheduled to 29 May 2024

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The National Testing Agency on Tuesday said the Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG 2024 scheduled for May 15 stands postponed for centres across Delhi due to unavoidable reasons. The exam in Delhi is going to be held on May 29.

Professor Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar spoke about the examination and said, due to unavoidable reasons, the 4 papers scheduled on 15 May in the Centres of Delhi have been rescheduled to 29 May 2024. He further added that the National Testing Agency has taken this decision in the best interest of the students. The revised admit cards will be issued. Exams have been cancelled in 258 centres in Delhi.

The announcement was made a few hours before the examination was scheduled to begin in 380 exam centers across India, including 26 outside India. The students and parents were disappointed as the cancellation of the examination was made at the last minute.

According to a public notice issued by the National Testing Agency, it is being informed to all the concerned candidates and stakeholders that due to unavoidable reasons, the test papers (Biology – 304, Chemistry -306, General Test – 501, English – 101) which had been scheduled on 15 May 2024 stand postponed for the candidates appearing in centres across Delhi only.

The notice further said that the examination scheduled for May 15 will be held in all other cities across the country, including in Gurugram, Ghaziabad, Noida, Faridabad and abroad. The National Testing Agency claimed that the reason behind this postponement is manpower issues caused due to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. CUET UG is held at a large scale and NTA had selected many exam centres and invigilators are deployed for this process. However, they were facing issues in getting appropriate amount of invigilators in Delhi exam centres for the May 15 exam due to the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

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Agra school principal beats up teacher for coming late to school, video goes viral

The incident has reportedly taken place at a primary school in Seegana village of Agra. A complaint has been lodged at the Sikandra police station regarding the incident.

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A video of a school principal beating up a teacher that led to a fight between them is circulating on social media platforms across the internet. The incident took place at a primary school in Agra , when a video of the incident went viral. The incident has reportedly taken place at a primary school in Seegana village of Agra.

In the beginning of the video the principal can be seen reprimanding the teacher, Gunja Chaudhary, for arriving late to school, which led to a heated argument between them. Reacting to the incident, the primary school teacher claimed that the principal, too, had been arriving late for the past 4 days. This led to a verbal exchange between the two of them.

As tensions increased, the confrontation turned to physical which can be clearly seen in the video. Both the principal and the teacher were engaged in a heated argument and even resorted to the use of derogatory language and physical violence. Other staff members who were present at the scene tried to separate the two and stop the brawl but it seemed all efforts were in vain.

The physical fight ended with the primary school teacher tearing the principal’s clothes and she retaliated by pulling hair of the school teacher. This incident has resulted in injuries to the school teacher’s eye as well. The incident has led to widespread discussion and concern within different members of the education department. Many X users expressed shock and dismay at the behaviour exhibited both by the school teacher and the principal. According to reports a complaint has been lodged at the Sikandra police station regarding the incident.

The video of the incident has gone viral with 211400 views, 649 retweets and 1600 likes which are only increasing. Large number of X users commented on the viral video where one X user Arkabrata Das said he was glad that the teacher who got beaten was not male, otherwise the reason for beating would have changed.

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