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Promising Future with Promethean Activboard Activboard caters to today’s classroom needs with enhanced interactive whiteboard technology, coupled with apt software and the facility to respond as active participants in the lesson
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romethean believes that technology holds the power to unleash the potential of human achievement. As the global leader in learning technology, Promethean combines innovation, real-world experience, scientific insight and thought leadership to help realise the fullest potential of every instructor, presenter and student everywhere—from the classroom to the boardroom to any space where information, collaboration, and global citizenship must meet. We developed the ActivClassroom to bring our vision of more engaged, successful education to life, and believe that this reality of an active, 21st century learning experience can empower people everywhere to reach higher levels of individual and collective achievement. Easily implemented and simple to learn, the ActivClassroom is a 360-degree, technology enabled learning environment comprising interactive white boards, learner response systems, software, training and professional development, resources and instructor communities all proven to improve educational results. Promethean’s aim is to unlock the potential of human achievement in education and training at all ages around the world. It does so by creating, developing, sup-
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plying and supporting leading edge, interactive learning technology and by encouraging the growth of the world’s largest online teacher community in this field. Integrated classroom systems are helping teachers to engage, motivate and assess their students and learners. Research reinforces that assessment for learning is a key factor in the success of educational initiatives and can develop teachers’ professional understanding about the process of learning and how to motivate all students.
Learner Response System: Learner Response Systems are creating a revolution in education through devices offering unprecedented opportunities for student involvement and assessment. Each learner response device gives individual students a voice while equipping teachers with a revolutionary tool for delivering dynamic lessons tailored to the immediate assessment of student performance. Traditionally, you would only find out some time later how well a class is following a lesson – when written or follow-up work was analysed. By which time students may well be unable to remember exactly what their thought
process was – and when they started getting left behind.
ActivExpression – Communicate No message is too complex to communicate. There are always more questions than those that can be answered with a simple yes or no. And students generally have much more to say than just A, B, or C. Sometimes, the answer is E=MC2, Milkha Singh, 12,426, or LOL. The Active Expression device has: • Full text capability, enabling numeric, sentencebased, symbolic, and, of course, yes, no, A, B, and C-based responses. • It is an easy-to-use tool for polling and pre-planned participatory exercises alike. • Ir works on the fly, ready to query the class at any time. • Everyone answers (anonymously if necessary), and everyone is heard.
ActiVote – Assessment. A personal response or ‘voting’ unit is designed to encourage class participation and enhance learning. Personal response units can be standalone or integrated into your whiteboard system. If they are standalone, you may experience
the disadvantage of having to log in and out of its interface in order to use it. If it is built in, it is available for use anytime and so you are much more likely to use it as part of your lesson. Votes can be recorded by individual students or by the whole class – and can all be saved to a flipchart. Votes can be cast in ‘named’ or unnamed’ mode, with only the teacher knowing how an individual has voted. Unnamed mode can increase student’s confidence while ‘named’ mode can provide you with an excellent assessment tool, proving that your students are learning.
Interactive Tools and Classroom Sound Systems Apart from LRS, Promethean also has a wide range of Interactive Tools such as ActiView (Visualiser), ActivArena (Dual User Functionality on Existing ActivBoards), ActivSlate (A Wi-Fi tablet integrated with ActivBoards), ActivPanel (Turns the biggest screen into an Interactive Board), ActivSound (An array of classroom sound systems). Promethean range of products are available through its sole importer in India – M/s. ALMOE Digital Solutions (P) Ltd. (www.almoe.co.in). \\