Samsung Smart School to grace the Kenyan schools

Samsung Smart School to grace the Kenyan schools

Kenyan primary schools will soon turn away from the use of exercise books and blackboards. This will however be so after Samsung East Africa’ project aimed at transforming traditional classrooms into multimedia teaching environments comes to play.

Samsung Electronics East Africa has put in place a program set at the integration of digital technology in basic education. If this comes to light, it will bring an evolution of basic learning solutions in local private and public schools,

The current pilot program taking place at the Nairobi’s Samsung Engineering Academy facility, dubbed the Samsung Smart School, is aimed at transforming the traditional classroom.

Samsung Smart School allows for greater interaction and student engagement, which will result to improved student performance. Students will also be able to learn more efficiently by accessing additional online resources as they take their classes.

Speaking during the closing of an exposure lesson for Lavington Primary School pupils, Samsung Electronics East Africa Business Leader in Charge of Service, Koki Muia, explained that the transformation involves replacing exercise books with Samsung Galaxy Tablets for the pupils’ notes taking.

Muia said that teachers and students, can communicate interactively using the Smart School technology utilizing the GALAXY Note 10.1, the Samsung Smart School, E-Board and the central PC to engage students in class.

Essentially, the Samsung Smart School solution features a mobile learning solution that leveraged Samsung tablet PC’s and an electronic blackboard to create an interactive multimedia classroom environment.

With the Classroom Management (CRM) functionality, the teacher can directly send whatever is on the board to the students’ GALAXY Tabs and monitor their devices. The Mobile Learning Management System (m-LMS) on the other hand provides multiple learning features such as resource sharing and assignment management.

With Samsung Smart School, the teacher is well equipped to help in the improvement of the students’ levels of concentration as well as their performance. The students can download resources for independent study after school and take tests online.