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tudents developing frontal cortex to better process the visual information the teachers are presenting

The use of interactive technology in particular, such as interactive whiteboards, can have concrete benefits

  The SmartBoard allows both students and instructors immediate feedback

At its core Smart Board technology is an interactive tool that allows students to truly be at the center of their own learning

A huge advantage of Smart Boards is the student’s ability to see their work displayed prominently in front of the classroom

While supplementing a students need for visual representations of instructional material, technology such as the Smart Board has the potential to inquire from students more detailed analysis of a particular subject. By allowing students to manipulate the Smart Board, students can be asked to directly participate in activities previously reserved only for the instructor

This particular study focused on elementary school classroom where 40 percent of students were classified as ESL

Some Smart Boards are embedded with a device called “Smart Network” that has spell check which allows students to engage in meaningful trial and error

students who were given access to the Smart Board technology over the course of the year displayed more pronounced improvements in grammar, than students who did not have the technology

Students with certain intellectual disabilities that historically have struggled in the classic classroom setting are allowed by the Smart Board technology to integrate their creative minds in a hands-on fashion, using the drag function to tangibly alter and refashion text and sentences

Furthermore, the researcher of this inquiry saw student vocabulary growth during the process as well.

During the teenage years, adolescent brains are transforming and Smart Boards can be used to bridge the gap between childhood and intellectual teenage creativity

Boards has the potential to dramatically increase overall student productivity and awareness of a particular learning segme

nt. The development of phonetic cognition is accelerated by interactive technology.

Technology has the potential to either bridge the educational achievement gap, or expand the academic inequality that we currently see permeating throughout our society.