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Interactive whiteboards

Submitted by praharsha on 16 August, 2008 - 09:41.

Do you guys think interactive whiteboards will make a major impact in improving the teaching and learning process?

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englishhh

Yes definitively.

Submitted on 23 August, 2008 - 19:50

Yes definetly.. this is the future.

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Nik Peachey

Why interact with a whiteboard?

Submitted on 22 August, 2008 - 11:33

I think the degree to which IWBs impact on teaching and more particularly learning depends to a great extent on how we use them. To say that these are interactive whiteboards is a bit deceptive as i think the reality is that they are electronic whiteboards. They aren't of themselves interactive and they don't create interaction among the students in your classroom. It is dependent on your materials and methodology to do that.
What they can do is make the classroom a much righer and more media rich and stimulating environment for learning and certainly that's a good thing. Best
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Chris

It's just a tool

Submitted on 23 August, 2008 - 02:31

I think whiteboards are really interesting tools. Whichever multi-media activity, video, ppt presentation or website you want to show your students, it looks simply great. However, for this very reason, the danger of having the board as the main focus of everyone’s attention in the classroom cannot be lightly dismissed.

I couldn't agree more with Nik when he says that whiteboards are not necessarily interactive. It all depends on the way we use them. The activities we propose using WB should lead to greater student involvement and participation and actually their use should become something so integrated to our lessons and so naturally used that we almost *forget* that we are using it. It seems to me that we shouldn't make such a fuss of whiteboards- just give them their proper space in the classroom as we should give to books, media video or other more traditional tools.

I think whiteboards are great tools and that’s the way we should see them, as tools.

Chris Lima