Friday, August 21, 2009

Explore about the Interactive Education


Interactive Education provides an educational and technological environment that motivates the students to learn, advances the interaction between teacher and student. Equipped with ICT (information and communication technology) devices such as computers, interactive whiteboard, visualiser (also known as Document cameras), digital projectors, audience response system and educational content, this interactive education environment allows teachers to interactively communicate a heap of information and content to the whole class. Interactive Education environment enhances the learning and teaching environment by utilizing potentials of these information technology tools for training. The central point about interactive education is the maximum use of information and communication technology to deliver the lessons bringing interactivity. Teachers can display multimedia, power point files, animation, motion video and other interactive contents to their students with bigger image of their Laptop or computer on the interactive whiteboards or projection screen with digital projectors. The educator can show the details of books, notes and documents to the entire class with the document cameras. Teacher can do live annotations on the paper or use interactive whiteboard to annotate on the real time object with the document cameras. Teacher can do formative and summative assessment of students with help of interactive response systems. Teacher gets individual feedback about the topic, gather information for reporting and analysis of student using student response system. ICT based educational content has taken the world by storm in past years. This educational content may be in the form of the visual images, audio, video with sound and animation. Teachers are taking advantage on this fact to captivate students’ interest to create learning environment which is purposeful and entertaining.