Let us have a closer look at the different features of the Galaxy Tab A8.

The Galaxy Tab A8 features an impressive 10.5-inch screen with a slim bezel and 16:10 aspect ratio that immerses the user within the scene. The tablet also features a quad-speaker system with Dolby Atmos support. It packs a powerful processor that ensures enhanced performance, smooth multi-tasking, seamless app navigation and uninterrupted gaming. Not only these, but the tablet also comes with a long-lasting 7040 mAh battery with 15W fast-charging to ensure uninterrupted usage.

The tablet offers interactive educational content and convenient parental controls that make it easy for parents to provide their kids with a safe and engaging learning environment at home and on the go. Last but not the least, the Galaxy Tab A8 comes with Samsung’s defence-grade security platform Knox that keeps all your data and transactions safe.

Pre-Primary children learning to draw and understand alphabet ‘W’ in a online class as they draw a watch, window and a watermelon.

The pre-primary wing of a school inevitably makes for its most heartening section. Cute, little handmade pictures on the blackboard, a teacher patiently drawing in chalk, helping tiny humans imagine words that sync with the alphabet.

When the pandemic hit the world last year, educational institutions found themselves more in need of technological assimilation than ever. Vijay Kiran Group, Bengaluru-based educational institutions, too faced an urgent need to take their classes online.

With more than 3000 students and 200-plus teachers across institutions, they needed a solution that would do justice to the teachers as well as the students. But could online classes do justice to pre-primary level students? This is where Samsung stepped in with the S Pen!

The Galaxy Tab S6 came as the perfect tool to enable continued teaching and learning. The aim was to not just retain the high points of the traditional classroom experience but to enhance it.

“With the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite and the S Pen, Samsung was able to support better collaboration between the students, teachers and management. This provided greater utility to teachers and resulted in elevating the quality of education for students,” said Akash Saxenaa, Senior Director, Enterprise Sales, Samsung India.

Teacher Mamta Kabra taking an online class using Samsung Tab S6.

 
Improved classroom feeling with the S Pen

One of the first challenges faced by teachers while going digital for the first time is letting go of the pen and paper. This often leads to duplication of effort as purely as a matter of habit, teachers first make their notes using pen and paper and then type them out.

“The pandemic dispelled schools from the normal. Teachers had to teach with the best available resource in the environment placed, to ensure learning continued for the students. As a solution to ease the discomfort of teachers, VKGI-NCFE adopted the Samsung Tab along with the S Pen. This led to a rise in productivity and comfort for employees and quality online instruction became the norm. It was a game changer for the organization and we are grateful to Samsung for their support,” said Sunalini Benjamin, Chief Operating Officer, Vijay Kiran Education Trust.

The S Pen brings the comfort of pen and paper to online teaching. Using the S Pen, teachers can directly write on the screen. The handwriting recognition feature turns this into digital text and helps teachers prepare effective lesson plans with interesting activities in half the time.  They can even give feedback and tips to students by adding handwritten annotations to textbook content.

“Samsung tablets made our lives very easy during the pandemic. The interface made the transition from classroom teaching to digital teaching very comfortable for teachers. The tablets have enough storage for the teachers to prepare and save their teaching material,” said Gowri Kurapati, Head of Pre-Primary, National Centre for Excellence, Vijay Kiran Education Trust.

The S Pen makes digital teaching effective across age groups. “The most heartening feedback we got on digital teaching was from pre-primary teachers. Using the S Pen, teachers can draw on the screen-board in real time. Since younger students are into a habit of learning with representational pictures, this is ideal,” she explains.

Teacher Shikha Badal teaching students how to draw Hindi alphabet ‘श’.

Teacher collaboration made digital with Knox

In the traditional set-up, teachers spend a lot of time working together to build the most effective teaching strategies. Samsung kept in mind that with remote teaching, this process should be further improved.
This was managed with Samsung Knox. Samsung Knox is a proprietary security framework pre-installed on most Samsung mobile devices. It protects the data on the device with vault-like security and has a toolset to keep the devices updated remotely.

With the Knox-empowered Galaxy Tab S6, all teachers relied on uniform infrastructure for their lessons. Knox configure ensured that all teachers used the latest version of the apps. This helped in making the collaboration between teachers easier.

Teacher Kanakvally LN taking an online class using the SPen.

Notebook feels for enhanced student engagement

The tablet has powerful features that enable seamless engagement with the students. Gowri explains how these often build upon and go beyond the classroom experience. She says, “In the classroom, there is only green board and chalk. The tablet gives a wider colour palate to the teachers. This is especially useful with primary-level students as visual learning is a big part of their development. The students clearly enjoy story time with animation and rhyme time with powerpoint presentations.”

“The Samsung Tab S6 has a feature where the pattern of the notebook page can be taken as the background. That has been immensely useful. Whether it’s teaching how to write on a four-lined pattern or teaching mathematics on a page that has a box pattern. It gives greater clarity on how to write neatly and stay within boxes,” Gowri Kurapati adds.

As schools are set to gradually reopen and resume classroom teaching, the Vijay Kiran trust aims to keep using the new skills acquired during the pandemic. We at Samsung India take pride in having played our part in further enhancing the teaching and learning process.

Samsung, India’s most trusted smartphone brand, today announced the launch of Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, a stylish tablet designed for both work and play. Galaxy Tab S6 Lite comes with an in-box S Pen, immersive display and premium Uni-body metal design. These features make Galaxy Tab S6 Lite the ideal device for content creation, learning and entertainment for students and creators.

“At Samsung, consumers are at the core of everything we do. At a time when e-learning and work from home have emerged as the new normal, Galaxy Tab S6 Lite is the perfect device that can integrate seamlessly into your everyday life. Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, with its new ergonomically designed S Pen helps students stay organized, multitask and create content effortlessly. We believe in bringing meaningful innovation to our consumers and with the Galaxy Tab S6 lite, our consumers especially students can take notes, create and share like never before,” said Aditya Babbar, Director, Mobile Business, Samsung India.

The S Pen as your Multitasking Assistant

The S Pen is truly your multitasking assistant whether you are using your Galaxy Tab S6 Lite for work, study or content creation. The new S Pen has an ergonomic design that makes it as practical and comfortable to use as a traditional pen. Weighing only 7.03g, the S Pen is light and easy-to-use, and its improved pen latency and 0.7mm pen tip delivers greater precision for note taking and drawing. When you’re finished capturing your ideas, the S Pen snaps magnetically onto the right side of the tablet, or to the optional book cover case, making it easy to use without the concern of misplacing it. The S Pen on the Galaxy Tab S6 Lite is also battery-free, so you never have to worry about losing charge when using it.

Light Weight and Stylish Design

Galaxy Tab S6 Lite sports a wide and immersive display, with a 10.4-inch screen and narrow bezels. Weighing just 467 gm, its compact design makes it the ideal tablet for multitasking, note taking and watching videos or movies. Galaxy Tab S6 Lite has an intuitive visual interface and simplified navigation tools, making switching between multiple applications smooth and effortless so that you can focus on the task at hand.

Your Perfect Entertainment Partner

Galaxy Tab S6 Lite comes with dual speakers, with sound powered by AKG. It comes with Dolby Atmos 3D surround sound experience for outstanding immersive audio, so whether you are watching a YouTube video, streaming your favourite show or listening to your favourite music, you will experience premium quality sound. The Galaxy Tab S6 Lite is packed with clever, helpful and entertaining features that make listening to music, streaming content, shopping online or connecting with friends easier and more enjoyable.

Signature Galaxy Experience

Galaxy Tab S6 Lite can keep you productive and organized. You can take calls and send and receive text messages through your Samsung account on your Galaxy Tab S6 Lite, even when your smartphone is out of reach or in another room. The improved Daily Board display lets you control music, view your calendar, check the weather and write quick memos and reminders. The new Bixby features will also enhance your overall productivity and entertainment experiences. The Galaxy Tab S6 Lite is a device that can be used by the entire family. With Samsung Kids, you can set daily playtime allowances, restrict access to certain applications and introduce your kids to the digital world safely with a range of exciting, colorful learning apps and games. Samsung has partnered with Netflix and Spotify so you can get even more out of your favorite apps on the Galaxy range.

Price and offers

Galaxy Tab S6 Lite is available in three beautiful colours – Oxford Gray, Angora Blue and Chiffon Pink. Galaxy Tab S6 Lite (Wi-Fi variant) will be available only on Samsung.co and Amazon.in. Customers can pre-book Galaxy Tab S6 Lite starting today till June 16 on Samsung.com, at select retail outlets and leading online portals. By pre-booking the device, customers can avail exciting offers of redeeming either Galaxy Buds+ (worth INR 11900) at INR 2999 only or Galaxy Tab S6 Lite Book Cover (worth INR 4999) at INR 2500 only. Galaxy Tab S6 Lite will be available in 4/64 GB variant and is priced at INR 31999 for LTE version and INR 27999 for Wi-Fi version. The device will go on sale across retail stores, Samsung Opera House, Samsung.com and leading online portals on June 17.

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