How Can the Use of Jamboard Online Classroom Improve the Education Sector in the Country?
It is very timely also now that we are in the middle of the coronavirus scare and face-to-face learning is discouraged by the authorities. Since the young minds can’t afford to miss out on their learning and education, this should serve as a reason for us to pressure the authorities and the education sector to start utilizing interactive whiteboards in their mode of instruction to students.
If you are not in the know yet, you’d ask “what is Jamboard?”. What’s in it for you if you are a student, an educator, or a top-ranking official in a business organization.
Jamboard Google. These pieces of equipment are interactive whiteboards that can be set up for use in front-of-the-class. For this device to work on a tablet computer or any mobile device on every hand of every student, they need to download the Jamboard app for this purpose.
If you are holding a class with a physical whiteboard, every creation you make can be broadcast onto the big Jamboard. Although it is not necessary with the app. Both students and educators/teachers can create a Jam session of their own, even share or collaborate on them when needed.
Completed sessions are automatically saved on Google Drive, either as an image file or PDF. As opposed to endless scrolling to and pro, board sessions can come in several pages, much the same way as a slideshow.
Since we can utilize the Jamboard whiteboard in manifold ways, it will certainly make learning and education a notch higher than in its current state, under many different situations. Firstly, you can use it in teacher-preserved lessons, presentations, small group projects, collaborative class discussions, planning, and organization.
This level of versatility of Jamboard, coupled with its seamless Google platform integration, will have Google educators rush on to implement them in their conduct of instruction.
Jamboard Google Classroom is not a fancy vision or dream, it is here now and can become part of every student’s reality. Now as for the Jamboard online app, you can make use of it the way you would any whiteboard app.
If you are a teacher or an educator, you can utilize this interactive whiteboard to demonstrate a lesson and share it with your students, facilitating a collaborative whole-class discussion.
As for the students, they can take advantage of it when they need to work in groups. They can also collaborate with their created images, drawings, or text, or have it as a tool for their presentation, and everything can be done in real-time.
The flexibility of this interactive digital whiteboard system can be used throughout a project, starting from the brainstorming phase, to planning and then finally during the presentation.