‘Samsung Smart School’ Inaugurated at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Sambalpur, Strengthens Digital Learning for Students & Teachers
Samsung India has inaugurated its flagship global citizenship program Samsung Smart School at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) school in Sambalpur, Odisha, 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 Sambalpur will experience the latest digital learning infrastructure at the two smart classrooms that Samsung has set up in the school. At an event held with the students of JNV Sambalpur, the new Samsung Smart School was inaugurated by Mr. B Gangadhar, Superintendent of Police, Sambalpur who is an alumnus of JNV, Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh and Mr. SK Dash, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Sambalpur.
JNV Sambalpur students gathered in assembly hall for the launch of Samsung Smart School
“We at JNV Sambalpur are constantly driving efforts to enhance the learning experience for students and enable teachers with better learning methods, with Samsung Smart School program we will be able to provide digital education to our students. We are delighted to be a part of Samsung Smart School program as the collaboration will surely help to improve students’ learning abilities as well as our teacher’s capabilities.” said Mr. SK Dash, Principal, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya, Sambalpur.
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.
“Our global citizenship initiative Samsung Smart School is aligned with India’s development agenda and we are implementing it in close partnership with the government. Through this initiative we want to ensure that less-privileged students across the country get access to the benefits of digital education. Samsung Smart School at JNV Sambalpur 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 Sambalpur, the schools have been set up in Gwalior, Varanasi, Udaipur, Kangra, Faridabad, Dehradun, Patna, Dhanbad, 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 572 (381 boys and 191 girls) students are at JNV Sambalpur.
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.
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