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Inside the box – Devise a classroom upgrade kit

PREMISE

The in-classroom learning within the past few decades have seen significant changes, but not just like the one it saw a couple of months ago. Online learning and offline learning have different value propositions and levels of acceptance in our day to day life. But the year 2020, the size of change has turned so huge that it brings the whole offline way of tuition under serious doubts. When entire academic institutions were immune to change, the days have moved the foremost resistant teachers to deliver lectures online tells tons about these times. And similar stigma which was held earlier, mainly of scholars learning everything ‘digital’ or ‘technological’ are now being appreciated and rewarded in some ways . What does this mean for our existing classrooms?

CLASSROOMS OPENING BACK

The design of existing classrooms (K12 Systems) is predicated on the antiquated means of book-based learning. They arrange pupils in rows and columns as how to efficiently deliver a static way of learning courtesy to our past from the planet over. Not everything about this structuring is bad, but the limited options to education are visible thanks to not embracing technology earlier phases of life. But rather than being a rift, the way online learning embraced every academic class – can the reverse happen to organize students for this rampantly shifting? Can old fashioned designs be upgraded quite a projector screen by giving more personal control to children on what and the way to find out , using current and upcoming technologies to create more cohesive delivery models?

BRIEF

The problem statement looks at a classroom upgrade kit that has new furniture design, classroom layout methods, the inclusion of taught and DIY learning, with equipment which will help deliver a more robust and fun way of learning than today. The budget isn’t a constraint, but the dimensions of the classroom is. Will it involve expert installation? Or it are often found out manually by the category itself? What devices or teaching systems are possible during this kit? What age bracket are you designing this for? What safety precautions may arise with such changed new teaching apparatus?

The solution finding looks at traditional schools and its classrooms at large all round the world as target sites. The user group looks at 30 students and a couple of teachers in any (one or multiple) of the K12 classes. you’ll pick a mean classroom size for the matter and choose one class or multiple supported your design.

Ensure you communicate these choice level details especially the minimum applicable area of your kit and maximum area on your sheets. Assumptions and choices almost like these are going to be crucial in evaluating the designs received.

YEARBOOK

Winners of this competition will get annually published with us in our e-yearbook and annual publications.

TIMELINE

Registration Closes: 3 May 2021

Submission Deadline: 4 May 2021

Result Announcement: 1 Jul 2021

PRIZES

Prize pool of worth 16,000$

First Prize: 3800$ (For students only)

Runner Up: 6 x 1000$ (For students only)

People’s Choice: 4 x 350$ ( for college kids only )

Honorable Mention : 12 x 400$ Each

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