‘Samsung Smart School’ Inaugurated at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dhanbad, Strengthens Digital Learning for Students & Teachers

Samsung has set up two smart classrooms at JNV Dhanbad

Each classroom has an 85-inch and a 55-inch Samsung Flip interactive digital board, 40 Samsung Galaxy Tabs for students, a printer, a server PC, a tablet charging station, and power backup
 

Samsung India has inaugurated its flagship global citizenship program Samsung Smart School at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) school in Dhanbad (Benagoria), providing digital learning opportunities to students and helping improve their learning abilities. Samsung is also training teachers of the school to enhance their interactive teaching methods.

The Samsung Smart School program aims to create young leaders of tomorrow by giving less-privileged students in India access to the benefits of digital education and its own transformative innovations under Samsung’s vision of ‘Together for Tomorrow! Enabling People’.

As part of the program, students of JNV Dhanbad will experience the latest digital learning infrastructure at the two smart classrooms that Samsung has set up in the school. With an extreme focus on digital pedagogies and learning, JNV Dhanbad is equipped with a Digital library to provide improved quality of the teaching-learning process.

In the classrooms, an 85-inch Samsung Flip interactive digital board replaces the traditional blackboard, making it a more exciting and fun learning environment for students. Students can use the second Samsung Flip (55-inch) to participate in lectures, quizzes, classwork, and project work, and the 40 Samsung Galaxy Tabs in each classroom for self-study. In addition, the classrooms also have a printer, a server PC, a tablet charging station, and a power backup.

At an event held with the students of JNV Dhanbad, the new Samsung Smart School was inaugurated by Mr. Sandeep Singh, Deputy Commissioner, Dhanbad and Mr. SK Upadhyaya, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dhanbad.

“We are pleased to be a part of the Samsung Smart School program, which is enabling digital education for our students. This collaboration will surely help to improve students’ learning abilities as well as our teacher’s capabilities. The teacher training module, is a part of this program that will help them explain complicated topics in an easy-to-understand visual format,” said Mr. SK Upadhyay, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Dhanbad.

“Our global citizenship initiative Samsung Smart School is closely tied with India’s development agenda and we are implementing it in close partnership with the government to ensure less-privileged students across the country get access to the benefits of digital education. Samsung Smart School at JNV Dhanbad will equip students with digital learning and enhance the ability of teachers to use digital infrastructure. This program strengthens our commitment to our vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia,” said Mr. Partha Ghosh, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Samsung India.

The Samsung Smart School program is being announced at 10 JNV schools this year. Apart from JNV Dhanbad, the schools have been set up in Gwalior, Varanasi, Udaipur, Kangra, Sambalpur, Faridabad, Dehradun, Patna, and Raipur. A number of these schools are situated in remote rural districts around these cities.

The program will cover over 5,000 students. Apart from that, around 260 teachers will receive training on digital teaching. Of these, around 465 students are at JNV Dhanbad.

Apart from infrastructure support, Samsung Smart School will also enable digital learning for students in these schools through multiple touch points. This includes teacher training, providing meaningful and relevant educational content for all classes from Grade 6-12, as per the CBSE curriculum, to enable teachers to use these classrooms more effectively, and enhance student learning through an interactive and immersive learning process.