European Schoolnet approached West Yorkshire firm, Planet PC – already a leading supplier of innovative video solutions to the UK education sector - for support. Sales Director, Andrew Milburn at Planet PC says “ Our mobile TV studio solution Planet MovieBox Take 3 and cutting edge video streaming, archiving and IPTV solution - Planet eStream - will form an intrinsic part of the core technology featured in the Future Classroom Lab’s Creative Media zone. This project will strongly influence the way that technology in education evolves over coming years and we are very happy to be part of that exciting process”.
The lab will be designed as an interactive classroom to show how a traditional classroom setting can use technology to enhance interactivity and student participation. It will also include a large, reconfigurable open space divided into five learning ‘zones’.
As well as supporting the iTEC project, the Future Classroom Lab will provide a platform where policy makers and practitioners from across Europe can come together to rethink 21st century teaching and learning and explore ways in which it can extend beyond the traditional classroom into other learning spaces.
Mark Durando, European Schoolnet Executive Director, says, “Video will be key to the creative use of ICT in the classrooms of the future and we are delighted to be working with Planet PC to explore how their technology can support innovative approaches to teaching and learning in different countries.”
Planet PC was established in 1993 and specialises in the development and supply of creative media technology for corporate, public sector and educational organisations worldwide.
