Wikipedia states that 'An interactive whiteboard or IWB, is a large interactive display that connects to a computer and projector. A projector projects the computer's desktop onto the board's surface, where users control the computer using a pen, finger or other device'. The Youtube clip above is a fantastic example of how the IWB has chnaged the way teachers and students interact. Lessons are more student teacher centred than teacher student centred.The IWB has the potential to involve students in practical hands on design techniques. Encouraging students to expand their skills and align their learning with real life.
Some of the advantages of the IWB are:
1. They allow teachers to create easily customised learning objects from a range of existing content and to adapt it to the needs of the class in real time.
2. They allow learners to absorb information more easily.
3. They allow learners to participate in group discussions by freeing them from note-taking.
4. Allow learners to work collaborativelyaround a shared task or work area.
Some of the key pedagogic aspects of interactive whiteboards are:
1.Their size, encourages and facilitates collaborative group work.
2. Their interactivity, which facilitates active learning, not just passive reception.
3. Their recordability, so that an end product can be emailed, stored for subsequent re-use, or deconstructed to analyse a process.
White boards are yet to be rolled out through many schools. IWB should only be an extensions of the learning experiences that we are already creating for our students
Reference:
Interactive white board viewed on 29 April 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_whiteboard
Resourcing the Cirriculum, Interactive Whiteboards viewed on 29 April 2010 http://www.det.wa.edu.au/education/cmis/eval/curriculum/ict/iwb/index.htm#classroom
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