The Briolight interactive table uses a Briolight interactive panel mounted horizontally in a table housing. It shares the panel's core technical characteristics, while the tabletop format offers specific advantages and disadvantages.
Interactive equipment is increasingly used in preschools and schools, including panels and tables, projection floors and augmented-reality sandboxes. These tools can complement traditional teaching with multimedia environments and make it easier for teachers to save and reuse educational materials.
For example, special education professionals can access interactive games without making physical cards for every lesson; creative arts teachers can use music and drawing programmes; mathematics teachers can organise short interactive quizzes.
The original Briolight interactive table has an approximately 80 cm diagonal touch display, a stable housing, wireless internet access, a built-in computer and multi-touch control allowing several children to participate. It includes software for preschool and primary-school activities. The historical configuration listed 130 main programmes and several additional applications.
Disadvantages
- Small groups: for groups larger than about six children, another interactive solution may be more suitable.
- Staff training: teachers and Inclusive Resource Centre staff may need time to learn the functions and plan activities. Regular use helps integrate the device into lessons.
- Price: a table usually costs more than the equivalent standalone panel because of its housing. The comparison changes when considering alternative systems such as projection floors.
Advantages
- Engagement: interactive content can make new material appealing. The original article claimed a twofold improvement in effectiveness, but this should not be treated as a verified or universal result.
- Versatility: one device supports mathematics, science, languages, logical thinking and creative activities.
- Social interaction: pairs and small groups can cooperate on tasks. Educators using tables in Inclusive Resource Centres report improved opportunities for communication.
- Motivation: game-based applications and the unfamiliar format may encourage participation.
- Supportive feedback: Briolight exercises use phrases such as “Try again” instead of criticism, encouraging children to continue.
- Less storage space: digital exercises can be organised into folders and supplemented with presentations, apps and files, reducing the need for physical teaching materials.
- Additional media: the table can display text, video, presentations and audio beyond its built-in exercises.
- Opportunities for practising attention and visual memory: specialists can select relevant activities, although clinical improvements are not guaranteed.
- Compact format: compared with some floor or sandbox systems, the table occupies about the space of a desk for two children.
- Institutional appeal: visually engaging activities can make the learning environment more attractive.
The interactive table is an alternative form factor of the Briolight interactive panel and therefore did not originally have a separate product page.
Historical housing options: premium table housing was priced at an additional UAH 30,000 above the panel price; the budget housing at an additional UAH 10,000. These are figures from the original publication, not current quotations.
For available models, current pricing and consultation, contact +38 (063) 258-15-15 or +38 (063) 103-35-35.
