Schools Get Smarter: Gadget-integrated Classroms

There are no longer brick-heavy textbooks or notebooks. All materials are delivered via a 'smart pad', as the teachers lecture on an interactive electronic board. Students and teachers exchange their ideas in real-time through the pad.

In this virtual class, students get a grip on English dialogue by being dropped into various situations. This is a subway station in the U.S., and the student is given a task to help a woman find her lost wallet.

And even robots are being used to help students learn the 'smart' way.

[Interview : Jeon Seung-ha, Elementary school student] "It wasn't very fun using a textbook because it's all about reading and taking notes. But in this virtual environment, it feels so real as if they exist.
The learning experience stays longer in my memory.

[Interview : Song Gong-ju, Parent] "I think it's great that the children can exchange information in real-time, and that they can also instantly look up whatever they are curious about".

Four schools embedded with the latest information and communications technologies such as this one opened in Sejong City in southern Chungcheong Province where nine ministries and several other government agencies will be relocated in the next two years.

All 150 schools scheduled to be built in Sejong City will be equipped with the same facilities.
Song Ji-sun, Arirang News.

Source : www.arirang.co.kr/New... ( English Korean )