What should a classroom look like?
The silhouette of the classroom in the 80s is still an old-fashioned projector, wooden desks and chairs, and a painted blackboard. At that time, one of the most interesting lessons was nothing more than an art teacher holding a colorful plastic sheet on a slide show machine.
In the millennium, students with whiteboards and projectors have enriched their classrooms, but what they envy most when they were young is the multimedia classroom in Happy Planet, a round table and a group, and everyone can have a computer during the class.
In the 2020s, what new tricks and shapes will the equipment in the classroom turn out? Can they meet our imagination and expectations for the "classroom of the future"?
To this end, we came to a future education laboratory known as "the most beautiful university in Asia" to explore the answer, what is the "truth"? First, let's take a video to take you to feel it:
The following video is from Jiguo.com, which is 03:50
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What's the future of the classroom?
"What will a classroom look like in 10 years?"
This problem is exactly the real problem faced by the School of Future Design of Beijing Normal University - to do the design that belongs to the future.
This Lenovo Future Education Lab can be said to be a sample answer jointly handed over by the Future Design College and Lenovo, and the future education is full of fans. The design of the classroom space is full of beauty, with log tones and semi-circular desk arrangements, which are completely different from the boxy classrooms in the impression, and the artistic atmosphere is strong enough.
But for the designers here, the outside is not enough. In the view of Xu Tengfei, a teacher at the School of Future Design of Beijing Normal University, "Because facing the new era of advanced manufacturing technology and the gradual integration of information physics, the classroom space cannot only consider a single accommodating attribute, but also incorporate the interactive function into the planning, and the space design must be in the direction of facilitating teachers to teach and teachers to communicate and interact." ”
Based on this, the classroom has been fully internally transformed:
The environment part, and classroom lighting related curtains and lights and temperature-related air conditioning have been incorporated into the intelligent Internet of Things system, in the system, we can switch through the scene mode to change the brightness of the lighting, you can also enter the lighting interface digital adjustment of lighting dimming, to ensure that the space lighting, lighting is enough and will not affect the attention of students, so that teachers and students can have a comfortable enough visual experience.
What is the need for such a design? How does the brightness of classroom lights affect teaching?
Research by the School of Built Environment at the University of Salford in the UK[1] shows that factors such as classroom orientation, daylighting, temperature, air quality and colour design can have a significant impact on students' academic performance. However, the classroom design is simple and aesthetic, and the environment can be flexibly adjusted according to the needs of the human body, which is only the "entry condition" of the future classroom. In addition to a teaching environment with sufficient aesthetics, the intelligent transformation of equipment in the classroom is the most important. Because for Beijing Normal University, which runs a school with two wings, how to save the time for teachers to travel between Beijing and Zhuhai, and how to meet the needs of the college in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and other places to build teaching bases to carry out teaching in the future, so that teachers and students can attend classes together without a classroom during special periods, is one of the biggest propositions that space design needs to solve. And this requirement is exactly the same as the architect of this classroom, Lenovo from an IT hardware manufacturer! With the smart education screen as the entrance, Lenovo has tailored a complete set of solutions for the laboratory, including binocular cameras, multi-channel pickups, multi-screen interaction and intelligent IoT systems.
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How will the classrooms of the future be held?
Can this solution meet the needs of the classroom in terms of display, interaction and environment, and achieve "time and space travel"?
Let's take a look directly at how they all took the class here! After all, no matter how much you say, in fact, there is no direct class. According to the students here, this lab is like a "crossing" entrance! "It can break through space restrictions, enter any classroom, remotely access academic forums, live broadcasts of famous teachers, and also allow you to connect and communicate with teachers thousands of miles away and friendly schools around the world like face to face." Next, let us see the "immortal operation" in this class from the perspective of teachers and students in the Lenovo Future Education Lab!
01 Teacher-student interaction is more convenient
The lab replaced the blackboard with a 98-inch and two 86-inch Lenovo smart education screens.
When teaching offline, the display space of the smart education screen is broad enough and the functions are rich enough:
The compatibility of the three smart education screens is quite strong, students can wirelessly cast the mobile phone/tablet screen to the smart education screen, and the teacher can get rid of all kinds of difficult wires and display the teaching content wirelessly;
Two-way interaction between the screens, the teacher can share the middle wisdom education large screen content to the "small screen" on both sides, convenient for students to watch the courseware content at close range through the small screen; when students carry out Group Presentation, they can cast the screen to the student group "small screen" through the terminal equipment, and the teacher can catch the small screen content to the middle of the smart education screen, which is convenient for the group to explain in front of the whole class; in addition, The teacher can also grab the screen of multiple small screens to the large screen for display and comparative commentary, with the help of the infrared touch attribute of the screen, the teacher can also handwrite annotations, quickly and simply complete the review;
In the classroom, students can also enter the classroom on WeChat, interactive answer questions, and complete real-time interaction with teachers in class; in general, meeting the needs of offline interaction is not a problem, teachers and students, students and students, students and groups, groups and groups can use this to complete in-depth interaction.
In online teaching and forums, teachers and students will live in two places, at this time, the classroom's smart education screen, AI tracking camera, microphone and intelligent interconnection facilities, and even the online cloud recording and broadcasting system will be mobilized.
For teachers at Beijing Normal University, which has multiple campuses in Beijing and Zhuhai, it is common to travel between the two places. Therefore, for them, the most convenient place for this classroom is the "cross-time and space" interaction ability it shows in this process.
"I feel that after having this laboratory, mobile teaching and remote online classes are not so headaches, and I don't have to worry about the poor network affecting the interaction with students, and it is much easier to break the limitations of time and space."
The teacher's feedback fully explains the convenience brought by the classroom.
Even if it is thousands of miles away, the teacher can also use the classroom multi-way camera to observe the situation in the classroom, quickly get the student's class performance, and grasp the classroom rhythm in a targeted manner; at the same time, it can also interact with the students smoothly, and the students can even complete the task of online homework display here, the system supports 1, 2, 3, 4, 9 and 16 screens at the same time to display arbitrary switching, and also supports the floating window display screen, after the explanation, the teacher can also remotely control the software for annotation.
Compared with ordinary online courses, the advantages of interaction are also quite obvious!
02 Easier access to resources
The Future Education Lab, which can not only serve online teaching and hold academic forums, is also an excellent location. In the online forum of the Royal College of Arts, the audiovisual equipment of the laboratory played a role, ensuring the stable and clear communication between students in the two places; in the frontier forum of design and interdisciplinary disciplines, with the help of the laboratory's smart education screen and cloud recording and broadcasting system, scholars from different subdivisions showed rich research content.
For students, "there may have been various academic forums held in the past, and teachers from different places needed to be invited to the school for exchanges, but now one laboratory is enough." ”
The smart education large screen cooperates with the host of the recording and broadcasting system and the microphone equipment, and in the process of network live broadcast and lesson recording, it can synchronously transmit the picture resources of the mobile terminal and synchronously enter the voice of teachers and students.
Based on this, different teachers can talk online and in the laboratory to discuss their understanding of design; while students can appreciate the style of the famous teachers' language confrontation through online live broadcast, and at the same time, they can also easily "cross back to the scene" and "ruminate" to absorb the wonderful speeches in the forum at any time through classroom recording and playback.
Compared with the previous lectures, I could only rely on notes and memory review, which was more than a little convenient.
When teaching offline, the advantage of resource acquisition also exists, and the two dual-channel cameras and five-way microphones that come with the classroom can achieve clear audio and picture recording during the online teaching process, ensuring the smooth communication between teachers and students in the two places. The live course can be directly recorded through the system, and subsequent accumulation becomes a school quality course; the content, points and ideas recorded by the teacher on the PPT can be saved with one click, scanned code and shared, and the pain of the class board book plus PPT "copying the broken hand" is said.
03 Environmental management is more "future"
The design of a future classroom can not only see the needs of communication between people, but also take into account the interconnection of things and things. For Lenovo, which has been cultivating smart education for many years, the test is the design ability of the overall teaching space, which means that in addition to the hardware large-screen deployment, Lenovo also needs to integrate the cloud and smart education large-screen, camera, microphone, lighting, air conditioning, etc. into the unified management of the system.
The requirements of this part are digested quite well! The functional entrance is obvious, the stability is strong, and the threshold for use is not high.
In the Lenovo Future Education Lab, you can open the class scene with one click and light up the whole house; you can also get the operation of the class with one click, turn off the lights, curtains and air conditioning; the classroom equipment can also take over the class roll call task, the students scan the code to complete the check-in, and the class teacher can also randomly draw people through the system to answer the questions.
Compared with the class five minutes in advance, various adjustments, roll call answers and other operations, the design of lenovo Future Education Lab is undoubtedly full of the sense of science and technology in the class.
Imagine that taking classes in such a way and in such an environment can not be efficient in learning?!
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Set off a comprehensive transformation of the teaching space
In fact, this future education laboratory, not only for the university, the software and hardware configuration in the K12 education is no problem, the teacher can get rid of the board ruler, compass and other props, easily draw pictures to teach example problems; you can use the smart education screen to achieve paperless assessment, combined with the correct rate of student tablet statistics... God's operations are also innumerable!
As Gao Peng, dean of the Future School of Design, said, it makes the time and space restrictions of teaching no longer so clear, allowing us to glimpse the shadow of the "symbiosis" of science and technology and space design, feel the integration of scientific and technological products, and improve the functionality and comfort of space.
In addition to this program, Lenovo is constantly updating and expanding its own planning for smart education. For example, in the face of the actual teaching process, teachers and students on the complex formulas, graphics and other paper and pen applications demand, they designed a "group type intelligent classroom", in addition to the same lenovo future education laboratory, but also added a smart handwriting board, handwriting board can be connected with the smart education screen, projection screen display electronic handwriting, effectively enrich the group teaching, collaborative learning interactive way. It can be said that Lenovo can work efficiently through hardware upgrades to ensure that the team can collaborate efficiently in the process of cooperative learning, while saving paper resources and further unlocking paperless classrooms.
In general, the school-enterprise cooperation between Beijing Normal University and Lenovo is a model for the future transformation of teaching space! Of course, we are also very much looking forward to seeing such a classroom occupy more classroom space, be able to take over more equipment, combined with VR, AR and other technologies, to give us a cooler classroom experience, so that we are closer to the childhood dream of becoming a child who enjoys class.
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