A classroom 30yrs future
1. Smartboard
2. Holographic projection area
3. Stools (rise out of floor)
4. Teachers Desk (has state of art laptop)
5. Individual student cubicles (comps rise from desk when required)
6. Storage for robot aids
7. Door
8. False holographic windows (teacher chooses weather)
More detail on items in the futuristic classroom.
1. Smartboard. Smartboards will be able to display computer screens, and interact with the computer, but you can still draw on them with a normal whiteboard marker. If the teacher wishes, he/she can make the board look like a whiteboard, blackboard, a big peice of old parchment, and his/her own artistic design. When a student wants to display work to the teacher or class, they can wirelessly connect to the smartboard, as long as the teacher okays it. The students information will travel via the teacher’s laptop, but the student can control the display from their own cubicle.
2. Holographic projection area. Holographic projections will just be starting. They will only be able to be projected into a certain area, but basically anything can be projected. Just like the smartboard, students can wirelessly connect to the holographic projector, via the teachers laptop.
3. Stools. These new stools rise out of the floor for the students to sit on so that they can watch the smartboard or holograms. They simply rise out of the floor when the teacher activates a switch on her desk. Not to comfy but not to hard, these chairs can rotate 45° each direction.
4. Teachers desk. Similar to the teacher desks of today, this desk has all the neccesary things that a teacher needs. Their laptops sit in to a slight indent in the desk. The laptop can show the teacher exactly what the students are doing at their cubicles (or on their computers), as well as shutting an individual computer if required. The teacher can also control items #6, #7, and #8. From his/her desk the teacher can also change the apperance of the classroom, making it look like a 1970′s classroom, or making the cubicles etc disappear so the room can look like a forest with dinosaurs roaming around.
5. Individual student cubicles. There is one cubicle per student, so a classroom like the one above would only be able to accomodate 20 students. Each cubicle has a desk, from which a computer monitor can rise when the student needs to do work on a computer. The cubicles have storage space for all the student books, pens etc.
6. Storage for robot aids. This is where 10 robots are stored when not in use. The robots go around and aid the indivudal students. There is one robot per two students. Each robot has programming for each student so they can assist any student at any given time. The teacher can control each robot from his/her laptop, and send them anywhere within the school boundaries if required. In the storage space each robot can recharge and have new programs/programming installed.
7. Doorway. Kinda obvious what this is. You walk into the classroom via this, and you exit the classroom via this. The teacher can lock and unlock the door remotely from their desk. In case of an emergency the teacher can seal the classroom with an explosion proof door.
8. False holographic windows (teacher chooses weather). This way a classroom can be built in a totally enclosed room. The teacher can chose if the windows appear, or if they look like a brick wall or something. Or it can be an apparent window, with the teacher chosing what appears outside, and what type of weather it is. This is controlled from the teachers desk.
