Enhancing the Interactive Classroom Environment: The Role of Large Touch Screens

Posted: Jul. 16th, 2015

Interactive technology is fast becoming the norm in many classrooms and educational establishments. Interactive whiteboards, for instance, have been used for several years to improve student engagement and enhance the learning experience. In recent years, touch screens have slowly begun replacing or complementing interactive whiteboard in classrooms, with instructors and students using them to enhance classroom presentation.


Most interactive whiteboards enrich the learning environment by allowing connections from multiple devices, including interactive printers. Touch screens take this aspect a step further by reducing the number of devices that need interconnectivity to produce an interactive environment. They remove the need to have an interactive projector to display interactive materials on the whiteboard. This enables institutions to save on servicing and replacement of expensive interactive projectors and projector parts such as special lenses or mounting systems. Touch screens are also easy to set up, which saves additional costs from installation. Savings can be diverted to other uses to make the classroom more interactive.
Enhance the Interactive Classroom Environment with Large Touch Screens

Touch screens improve user experience for learners and instructors within an interactive environment. Learners using the interactive whiteboards of some brands usually suffer problems associated with shadows from the instructor that obstruct the display when they stand in front of the projector. Additionally, some interactive setups suffer from projector glare when the images fall on some types of whiteboard surfaces. Further, some interactive whiteboards function well only in rooms where lighting can be controlled for the best viewing angles. Touch screens take care of these shortfalls by incorporating the latest LED/LCD technology for better, more colorful, and high resolutions images.


Intech large touch screen comes with a multitude of input options that allow you to connect to external devices and display content from these devices in Full HD. As an added advantage, these touch screens are platform-free, meaning they can run without the need to install drivers that come with most operating systems. They also support multi-touch and four-point calibration for ease of use. Moreover, Intech large touch screen can be bought with mobile stands which are cheaper and easier to use than the conventional interactive whiteboard stands.


Touch screens are undoubtedly the future of interactivity in the classroom. They hold much promise as accompanying solutions for use with interactive whiteboards or as standard, stand-alone installations in modern classrooms. Towards this end, Intech is committed to the production of modern, highly efficient large touch screens for classrooms to enhance the learning experience.





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