Creating an Experiential Classroom at E-Eun School With a Large Floor Screen
Transforming Education With Digital Spaces
Primary, middle, and high schools across the country are investing heavily in strengthening their digital education capabilities. This includes introducing digital textbooks, establishing AI classrooms, and implementing a variety of teacher training programs to enhance digital competencies. In line with this trend, PaintPam has also been involved in creating AI-enabled classrooms as educational spaces continue to evolve for digital learning.
Focusing on Special Needs Schools
How are special education schools adapting to these digital transformations? Is it enough to simply follow the mainstream model of digital classrooms?
Through our work in creating digital spaces for special needs schools, we at PaintPam have learned that the digital environment must provide unique value for students with intellectual disabilities.
Digital Environments Must Offer Unique Value
E-Eun School in Cheongju, South Korea, is the nation’s first public special education school serving preschool and elementary levels since 2023. While setting up two large digital learning spaces, we discussed extensively with the teaching staff and explored ways to optimize these environments for their students.
From Lecture-Based to Experiential Learning
The fundamental premise was that the digital space should enable hands-on, experiential learning rather than traditional lecture-style instruction. In other words, students should be able to immerse themselves in digital content, interact physically with it, and experience tangible responses.
One particular request from the teaching staff was that the space should not focus solely on delivering educational content. Instead, it should serve as a stress-relief zone where students could release their pent-up energy through physical activity. E-Eun School needed not just a digital classroom, but a digital playroom—an experiential “interactive zone” designed to meet their students’ unique needs.
A Large Interactive Floor Screen for Active Engagement
The large digital floor screen at E-Eun School provides an environment where students can move freely, interact with dynamic digital content, and engage their senses. Although the space is physically limited, the interactive elements projected onto the floor encourage students to run, jump, and touch the visuals, effectively channeling their energy and helping them work up a sweat.
What sets E-Eun School’s floor screen apart from those at other institutions is its size. By maximizing the projection area with a single projector, we expanded the students’ range of interaction, allowing them to fully engage with the digital environment.
Introducing the “Interactive Zone” at E-Eun School
E-Eun School did not start this project with a special budget earmarked for digital classrooms, AI rooms, or cutting-edge educational technology. Instead, it began with a teacher’s vision for an experiential learning environment that also serves as a space for stress relief. After completing the installation of the digital floor screen in the “Physical Strengthening Room,” the teacher showed us a printed sign that officially renamed the space the “Interactive Zone,” marking the birth of a truly customized learning environment.
How PaintPam Designs Digital Classrooms
While PaintPam does indeed use screen paint and projectors to create digital classrooms, there is more to our process than meets the eye. Teachers who come to us have already spent considerable time thinking about what their ideal digital environment should look like. Since we do not sell prepackaged solutions, our first step is to listen to the teachers’ needs, then help them refine and implement these ideas.
This collaborative approach may slow down the initial planning and contract process, but it ensures that the resulting digital classroom—or in E-Eun School’s case, the “Interactive Zone”—perfectly addresses the students’ needs. It’s through this careful collaboration that truly meaningful, customized digital spaces come to life.
Conclusion
The E-Eun School “Interactive Zone” exemplifies how a thoughtfully designed digital environment can transform learning experiences, especially for students with intellectual disabilities. By embracing large interactive floor screens and experiential, play-based activities, educators can create inclusive, engaging, and stress-relieving digital classrooms that truly cater to diverse learners’ needs.
Through PaintPam’s approach, these digital learning spaces become more than just classrooms; they become environments where students can explore, interact, and grow—one step closer to a more equitable and meaningful educational future.