Wow, Interactive Whiteboards are a great tool that every teacher should use. They are easy to use, they engage students, studies show they increase student's retention and it reaches students on a whole new level. Students really are a part of your lesson when you use this great tool. They can go to the board and work together to create projects. If used correctly they are a great tool. Unfortunately, many teacher do not know how to use them, they are either untrained or unwilling to use try them. They use them as expensive overhead projectors or as expensive movie players. This is dangerous, because they are depriving students of a great assest to learning. Our students' today are digital nativies. The things that used to engage us and get us excited are not the same for them. They love technology, are knowledgable about it and are amazed by it. That is why interactive whiteboards work so well. Today's students need the technology and the interactivity. They have the attention spans of nats, if your lesson does not involve them and engage them you will lose them. There are so many websites and other resources available that there is really no excuse for any educator to not properly use these tools!!!
I agree that interactive whiteboards are great tools! Your presentation on them was fantastic. I really found some new tools that I can hopefully use in my future classroom if I am lucky enough to have an interactive whiteboard!
ReplyDeleteSteve, your presentation was Great. I have never used a white board so I was really interested in learnign about them.
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