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Implementing ITU-T International Standards to shape Smart Sustainable Cities - The case of Moscow

Interactive blackboards – 84-inch touch screens – are also available in Moscow’s schools and are
used to make lessons more interesting for students (as seen in Figure 29). Students can draw on
these e-boards, move on-screen elements around, paint various areas and perform other
activities using a stylus or their fingers. The adoption of these e-boards familiarizes today's
children with electronic devices while engaging in course materials. They enjoy history lessons
where they can, for example, use an e-board to draw trade routes or circle areas where certain
historic tribes lived. Subjects such as geometry benefit greatly through the availability of 3D
imaging. And thanks to the readily available internet access in Moscow’s schools, teachers can
quickly pull up supplementary information such as laws, articles, videos and much more often
on these interactive blackboards.

Figure 29: Smart e-board in a Moscow primary school classroom

Figure 30 shows the use of virtual reality (VR) equipment for learning in a post-secondary setting.

Figure 30: Moscow students using VR goggles

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