What will the classroom of the future look like?
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By Dominic Sacco
Imagine your local school doesn’t have a single classroom; children are all connected to the Internet and the teachers have been replaced by apps.
It’s a scenario that’s not as far-fetched as you might believe. Schools are already incredibly tech-savvy with smartboards, tablets and faster Internet becoming the norm – and networking specialist Cisco expects IoT (the Internet of Things, or connected devices and objects) to have a greater influence on schools.
‘The classroom of the future may not even be a room,’ says Sarah Eccleston, director of enterprise networks and IoT at Cisco UK and Ireland.
‘It can become much more of a remote virtual learning environment where you can use video much more greatly, and everything and everybody can be connected to the Internet. So that means you can conduct training at a distance. You can bring in experts on demand. There could be one topic but thousands of pupils that can learn the topic in the way that best suits them from a li...
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