Samsung on digital education drive via smart schools

With an aim to impart digital education to underprivileged students, Samsung India has introduced its ‘Samsung Smart School’ at Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya (JNV) schools across the country. In the first phase, the programme is being piloted at 10 JNV schools, which are located in Varanasi, Gwalior, Raipur, Udaipur, Kangra, Sambhalpur, Faridabad, Dehradun, Patna and Dhanbad. The pilot will cover over 5,000 students of which 40% are girls and around 260 teachers. 

“Samsung Smart School program strengthens our commitment to our vision of #PoweringDigitalIndia. This global citizenship initiative is closely tied with India’s development agenda and implemented in close partnership with the government to ensure wider reach and impact among less-privileged students,” maintains Partha Ghosh, Vice President, Corporate Citizenship, Samsung India. 

Through this programme, students will be able to improve their learning abilities and understanding of critical concepts in the classrooms through interactive digital teaching methods that teachers have been trained on, claimed the company.   

“The smart classrooms, as part of the Samsung Smart School program, are helping improve student participation and engagement. I am confident that a program like this will bring a positive impact on society and become a benchmark for digital education in the future,” maintains Vinayak Garg, Commissioner, Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti.

Furthermore, every school has two smart classrooms each of which is equipped with an 85-inch Samsung Flip interactive digital board. Also, a-55-inch Samsung Flip display that students can use to participate in lectures, quizzes, classwork and project work. These apart 40 Galaxy Tabs are also there for students to use for self-study. In addition, the classrooms also have a printer, a server PC, a tablet charging station and power backup, as per the company’s revelations.