Schoolboards get an upgrade
JOBURG – The Gauteng Department of Education recently unveiled the new and revolutionary e-chalk board.
VastraTech, the authorised technology distributor in South Africa, will lead the implementation which will see Grade 12 classrooms across Gauteng transformed into collaborative learning environments.
According to the Gauteng MEC for Education, Panyaza Lesufi, the e-chalk board called SMART Kapp is likely to change the way teachers impart knowledge to pupils and at the same time simplify the learning process for them.
Educators simply walk up to the display and immediately share notes and drawings from the display onto connected devices, in an incredible real-time, multi-way, multi-device collaborative experience.
The SMART Kapp is a connected whiteboard that works with a mobile app on your phone or tablet. The user then writes on the e-chalk board and the same content appears in real-time on pupils’ tablets. The teacher could even solve the problem while the pupils follow along. That lesson can be saved as a file that pupils’ can access from their own devices as a refresher.
“SMART Kapp enhances that collaborative learning process by providing an incredibly simple walk-up-and-use experience while seamlessly connecting with smartphones and tablets. We’re confident that no other interactive flat panel for education offers so much magic, power and flexibility,” said Candice du Preez, chief strategic and marketing officer at VastraTech.
In December 2014, the Gauteng Ministry of Education worked with VastraTech on a pilot project in which the technology was considered by the ministry to be so successful that it ultimately chose it as its main provider of interactive classroom technology.
As part of the implementation plan, VastraTech will provide educators with professional development and training that aligns with the Department of Education’s objectives to enhance pedagogy in ways that lead to increased learning outcomes, and eventually phase out all dry-erase chalkboards.
Nearly 70-million teachers and pupils around the world use the technological solutions for education to make learning more interactive, engaging, effective and fun – and now Gauteng schools join them.
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