Are these ones the Classrooms of the Future ?

Hi there! I would like to share a video I came across this week. It is an official video created by HP Corporation, one of the most important computer manufacturer in the world, which seeks to develop a “classroom of the future” by incorporating interactive, integrated and flexible solutions to the classroom.

Before watching the video, can you guess what the classroom of the future would look like?

This company has unveiled a whole line-up of digital devices officially called “HP Digital Learning Suite” that includes the following elements:

-HP Sketch: it is a wireless device that is connected to the teacher´s notebook, allowing him/her to have a look at the lesson plan while walking around the classroom.

-HP Pocket Whiteboard: this is another device that could turn any classroom surface into an interactive learning space.

-HP MultiSeat t150: it is an additional element that makes possible that up to ten students can simultaneously share a single host computer using just a simple USB connection.

-HP Presentation Station 1000: it is a “mobile teaching station” that enables teachers to walk around the classroom.

-20-Notebook Charging Cart and 30-Notebook Managed Carts:  they are like movable shelves designed to store and charge the portable computing systems inside the classroom.

-HP VantagePoint:  it is a touch interactive board that will replace the traditional blackboards. Below you will find another video in which Luca Di Fiore, the Senior R&D manager of HP, explains how this digital whiteboard can be used and the reasons why HP company decided to create it with educational purposes.

I must confess that this innovating classroom of the future thoroughly shocked me at first, but, after pondering about how technology has evolved in such a short period of time, this future seems to be highly likely. What do you reckon? Is this beneficial for the learning process or not? I would really like to read your opinions!