NCKU Built Taiwan’s First Future Classroom iStudio
Tainan, Taiwan, February 21st, 2011
Taiwan’s first digital and high-tech future classroom iStudio has been established by Associate Prof. Tay-Sheng Jeng from the Department of Architecture at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, and several master and doctoral students from the Department of Architecture and the Institute of Creative Industry Design.
According to Associate Prof. Tay-Sheng Jeng, the iStudio future classroom which cost approximately NT$1,500,000 is about 39.66 square meters and can house a maximum of 20 students.
The iStudio is inspired by World-renowned American architect Louis Kahn’s idea that “The first school began with a man under a tree, surrounded by those who awaited his speech.” With CNC-cut shapes of tree branches from the floor to the ceiling, the studio is equipped with transformable classroom furniture which can be moved freely for various instructional purposes, such as lectures, presentations, and discussions.
The Automatic Environmental Control allows the light to go partly or completely on and off when teachers step on the button on the floor. It provides the most suitable learning environments for teachers delivering lectures, students exchanging ideas and classmates making presentations, so studying can become an easy and enjoyable experience.
Installed with smart touch screen and sensing technologies, the Transformable Smart White Boards can join together vertically as a large white board for teachers to write down their key points. Each of them can be transformed and also act horizontally as a desk for students to jot down their comments in group discussion. The discussion will appear on the touch screen for their peers to watch.
What is unique about this studio is the real-time tagging system. With an iPad or laptop, students may add tags on the real-time lecture video to enhance interactive learning process. Then, the instructor can track the teaching state by reading the response (e.g. tags) on their screen to better accommodate the needs of students.
In addition, students who are in different geographic locations can listen to the recorded lecture from the archive online and select parts of the lecture that received the most positive comments. In other words, they can choose to only listen to the highlights of the lecture.
Because of its creativity, the iStudio future classroom at NCKU has attracted reporters from the National Science Council, Taiwan and visitors from Microsoft Taiwan Corporation.
Taiwan’s first digital and high-tech future classroom iStudio has been established by Associate Prof. Tay-Sheng Jeng from the Department of Architecture at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU), Tainan, Taiwan, and several master and doctoral students from the Department of Architecture and the Institute of Creative Industry Design.
According to Associate Prof. Tay-Sheng Jeng, the iStudio future classroom which cost approximately NT$1,500,000 is about 39.66 square meters and can house a maximum of 20 students.
The iStudio is inspired by World-renowned American architect Louis Kahn’s idea that “The first school began with a man under a tree, surrounded by those who awaited his speech.” With CNC-cut shapes of tree branches from the floor to the ceiling, the studio is equipped with transformable classroom furniture which can be moved freely for various instructional purposes, such as lectures, presentations, and discussions.
The Automatic Environmental Control allows the light to go partly or completely on and off when teachers step on the button on the floor. It provides the most suitable learning environments for teachers delivering lectures, students exchanging ideas and classmates making presentations, so studying can become an easy and enjoyable experience.
Installed with smart touch screen and sensing technologies, the Transformable Smart White Boards can join together vertically as a large white board for teachers to write down their key points. Each of them can be transformed and also act horizontally as a desk for students to jot down their comments in group discussion. The discussion will appear on the touch screen for their peers to watch.
What is unique about this studio is the real-time tagging system. With an iPad or laptop, students may add tags on the real-time lecture video to enhance interactive learning process. Then, the instructor can track the teaching state by reading the response (e.g. tags) on their screen to better accommodate the needs of students.
In addition, students who are in different geographic locations can listen to the recorded lecture from the archive online and select parts of the lecture that received the most positive comments. In other words, they can choose to only listen to the highlights of the lecture.
Because of its creativity, the iStudio future classroom at NCKU has attracted reporters from the National Science Council, Taiwan and visitors from Microsoft Taiwan Corporation.
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新聞中心
Date:
100-02-22
