School is an evolving world, and BenQ is one of the most interesting and innovative brands for Educational applications. Let’s discover the new EDLA certified interactive whiteboards designed to maximize teaching and learning potential
If the motto is “Teach your Way”, you can be sure that the news will be very interesting. The new BenQ interactive whiteboards allow teachers to prepare lessons in the cloud (Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox, Box Drive), using multimedia content that makes them more engaging and communicative.
BenQ Account Management System (AMS) automatically connects to cloud storage and Google Classroom, allowing you to easily extract and manage prepared material. In particular, the interactive whiteboard becomes the terminal of a cloud dedicated to teaching, with contents and materials, as well as entire lessons that the teacher can keep ready to be used with a simple touch: in fact, just touching the NFC card is enough to access them all content uploaded and saved, without passwords or access to individual apps. The connection to the board takes place via Single sign-on (SSO), while a simple AMS account allows you to take advantage of the cloud storage.
BenQ Google EDLA certified whiteboards allow you to create lessons with tools based on Artificial Intelligence, in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of teaching activities. EDLA is the acronym for Enterprise Devices Licensing Agreement, a new program introduced by Google to help solution providers offer devices with integrated Google Mobile Services (GMS). What are Google Mobile Services? In practice, these are Google’s most popular applications and APIs (including Google Search, Google Drive, Chrome, YouTube and the Google Play Store) bundled and packaged explicitly for Android devices. Among the possibilities that these interactive whiteboards offer we have the conversion of handwritten texts or drawings into editable text or shapes; vocal reading, which definitely promotes inclusiveness; the extraction of texts from images, for improved integration of content in lessons; blocking any inappropriate content.
Each teacher, however, has his own style of teaching and relationship with students. It would not be right to excessively standardize learning and teaching methods. That’s why BenQ whiteboards were designed to allow every teacher to work their way, taking advantage of the features of technological tools designed to adapt to various teaching styles. In practice, each teacher is provided with their own personal account, which they can access from any BenQ whiteboard. This means that you can access all your settings, bookmarks and folders by simply logging in. All accounts are separate and independent, each teacher can only access their own material. By touching the interactive multimedia whiteboard with the NFC card, the teacher is ready to start working, while a simple Android smartphone allows you to share the screen.
Obviously it is also possible to use a laptop PC, connecting it to the board to have touchback commands and manage the screen.
In conclusion, with BenQ teaching takes a further step forward and becomes increasingly multimedia and engaging, suitable for a world in which textbooks, however important, are often no longer sufficient and, for correct and profitable learning, they are needed multimedia content, links, photos and videos. Furthermore, you can consult models and tools, both standard and AI, at any time to make lessons more interesting.
