Digital learning at Gems Modern Academy in Dubai

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Digital learning at Gems Modern Academy in Dubai. Students are given the freedom to bring their own devices and make them compatible with the secure systems at the school, where digital curriculums are becoming a popular learning tool. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00This is a grade 5 Hindi language class in progress.

00:12Students had their entire book transformed digitally.

00:16All they did was scroll up and down to recite a beautiful poem.

00:20E-learning is the way forward for the 21st century learners at school today, which means

00:26no more textbooks as knowledge is available to students on their tablets at a click of

00:31a button.

00:32More and more schools are researching on the benefits of creating online solutions to classroom

00:37learning.

00:38Jain's Modern Academy, Dubai, is the first Asian school in the UAE to create a digital

00:44curriculum from grade 4 to grade 7.

00:47I think if you look around, that is the way forward for education.

00:51Today's learners are basically digital natives.

00:54If you see around, they basically learn more through gadgets than learning through textbooks.

00:59So we thought, why not shift their gadget time to actually learning time by providing

01:04gadgets at school, which is to be used for education.

01:07We have started with textbooks going online, digital, on tablets.

01:12But the plan is, in the next two to three years, we'll have everything in digital format.

01:16Be it classwork, be it homework, be it tests, be it their assessments, everything will be

01:22done through these tablets.

01:24This school also has a 3D learning laboratory, a part of the e-learning initiative.

01:29Animated bunch of students from grade 8 were being given lessons on plant reproduction.

01:35When the stamen is matured, these pollen grains are released.

01:44I find e-learning better because you get a visual idea, whereas a textbook has only definitions

01:51and you can't exactly imagine it.

01:53So an e-book idea will be better because you can at least visualise it.

01:59Right now we're learning the flower, so we're going through all the structures, and it gives

02:04you a clear understanding, so I think it's a better way to learn.

02:08It looks like this revolutionary concept of digital curriculums, where all content will

02:14be available on tablet, is all set to overtake the old-fashioned learning world of books

02:20and bags.

02:21And that really spells sweet freedom from lugging a tonne of books in heavy bags for

02:26students very soon.

02:29Sunitha Menon, Gulf News.

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