Vishakhapatnam has taken the lead in bringing the ‘Future Classrooms’ to the students. These classroom are developed in collaboration with the Google and actively uses ICT (Information Communication Technology) to impart education to the students. Presently 31 public schools in state are using this technology to enhance and change the way students learn in the schools.
"Future classroom is a solution which has introduced G Suite for education. This is a set of applications including Gmail, docs, drive, calendar, hangouts, classroom and more that helps in collaborative and interactive learning," says Bani Dhawan, head of education, Google India. As a pilot project, ‘Future classrooms’ is live in four states -- Gujarat, Maharashtra, Telangana and Andhra Pradesh.
"The project based on student centered learning had positive outcomes in short span of time," said Bani.
School labs are connected to the future classrooms and student are able to access the G Suite through their chromebooks, which helps them in learning English, Hindi, Science, Maths, History in internet enabled environment. Future classrooms allow students to work on school projects and group assignments in real time. The educational content has been crated by the teachers and is mapped on to the system for the students.
"We have trained around 500 teachers to use this technology for effective teaching. In Vishakhapatnam, the Google program managers are stationed in the schools to assist the teachers," said Bani.
He further said that there is a popular perception that government school teachers are not receptive to advance teaching methods and these schools lag behind when it comes adopting new technologies for teaching the students. "But the teachers we trained picked up the technology effortlessly and are now spending more time teaching and less time in checking notebooks. For teachers it is more productive as it saves the burden of writing the assignments and notes on the blackboard in each class. Instead they have access to it through the system," said Bani.
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