[vc_row equal_height=”yes” content_placement=”middle”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]In this digital era with tablets and smartphones, our children are constantly in front of a screen. But we are also in an era promoting a healthy lifestyle.\u00a0 So how do we encourage our youth to move while still stimulating them intellectually?\u00a0 The Monts-et-Mar\u00e9es School Board has found a solution by choosing L\u00dc Interactive to animate its gymnasiums differently.<\/p>\n
In fact, the 17 schools in that School Board in the Bas-Saint-Laurent now uses this revolutionary pedagogical tool, distributed exclusively by IT2GO Solutions in Quebec.\u00a0 The objective: Motivate students to do physical activity differently within their school environment.\u00a0 As a matter of fact, L\u00dc makes tens of thousands of children move in more than 20 countries.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″]
With L\u00dc Interactive, the gymnasiums get transformed into veritable immersive and interactive play spaces.\u00a0 How?\u00a0 3D cameras show digital animations on the walls, while synchronising them with a sound and lighting system. The kids must, for example, reach targets with balls to spell certain words. Various applications are available, depending on the skills to be developed.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are happy to be the precursors in Quebec, says the Executive Director of the Monts-et-Mar\u00e9es School Board, Marthe \u00c9mond. All of our schools have gotten the L\u00dc equipment. Parents and students alike think it is fantastic to have access to this interactive technology.\u201d[\/vc_column_text]
The congressman of the Matane-Matap\u00e9dia district, Pascal B\u00e9rub\u00e9, got caught up in the game by throwing balls on the new interactive wall of the Saint-Victor school gymnasium in Matane. \u201cEducation is changing, children are changing and we have to stimulate them differently, he says.\u00a0 Before, we used to talk about the new information technologies. We are now much more advanced than that!\u00a0 Schools must take into account what the world has become.\u201d[\/vc_column_text]