Smart Classrooms / Digital Learning Centres

‘Quality of teaching’, and the ‘quality of the teaching staff’, both of which are directly related, has always been a critical factor which ultimately will influence the ‘school experience’ of the child, his learning and academic performance. In many of the schools that we support we have appointed computer teachers to run our computer centres. Our own Steria staff volunteers also supplement the school teacher’s effort with special classes and tutorials.

We had launched the ‘smart classroom’ initiative on a pilot basis in a Chennai school in 2010, where two classes had been converted to be ‘smart classrooms’ with the use of technology as a teaching aid. With the help of a computer and an interactive board in place of a normal blackboard, the teacher is able to use ready made teaching content for various subjects as per prescribed syllabus or is able to prepare his/her own content, modify, store, recall, revise etc as per the requirements of the class and its students. This pilot project had been a reasonable success in 2010 and it is now proposed to extend this to more classrooms in more schools. In Padma Adarsh Higher Secondary School – Vaniyanchavadi Chennai, the number of smart classrooms has been increased to six in the English medium section from this academic year ie. 2011.

In Dnyandeep Vidyalaya - Pune, Yash Memorial School – Noida and Govt. Higher Secondary School Mahabalipuram – Chennai, we have set up one Digital Learning Centre (DLC) in each school which is similar to the ‘Smart Classroom’ concept. The DLC is set up as a common centre of learning for all classes and will be utilised by teachers for specific subjects.

We believe that going forward, this will be an important factor in providing the ‘superior school experience’ to our children, which is the very basis of all our CSR programs in India.