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Dubai school to digitise classrooms

The school has plans to replace the traditional book with an e-book in a laptop computer, digitise its textbooks and transform the classrooms into Audio-Visual rooms, where the student's laptops will be part of a wireless network and will be connected to the Internet, the school's e-book library, and the teacher's PC station.

The students will be taught various subjects over the network and they will get a chance to simultaneously browse the Internet and the e-library on related subjects and interact with the teacher on the topic.

The students then edit their notes, consolidate them in MS Word, print them, and complete the assignment for the teacher.

The school administrator met with over 600 parents and guests in the school's Al Barsha campus recently and discussed the advantages, changes in the classroom layout, deployment modalities, software requirements and cost implications for both the school and parents. The presentation on the modular class concept outlined the importance of the vision laid down by Board of Directors.

As part of this massive project, the school plans to train its staff as well as over 100 teachers for the new classroom environment. A survey questionnaire was handed to the parents for their feedback on this issue. As part of this massive project, the school plans to train all staff as well as over 100 teachers of Grades 10, 11 and 12 where the new classroom environment will take effect.

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