Interactive whiteboards

There has been a lot of interest in interactive whiteboards in the past couple of years, and no doubt the vendor displays and demonstrations at the recent principals’ conference have sparked a renewed round of thinking about whether or not one/some would be  a worthwhile addition to your school or classroom.

I am sure the vendors did a great job of selling the clever things an interactive whiteboards can do, so I want to concentrate more on the pedagogical changes that may (or may not) happen with the addition of this technology in a school.

The video below (created using the ‘Recording’ function of an interactive whiteboard and uploaded to TeacherTube) outlines some of the potential impact of a digital projector and an interactive whiteboard on classroom dynamics and teacher pedagogy.

Teacher tube video

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