An interactive White Board (IWB) or SMART Board has the potential
to deliver content better than traditional methods of teaching. Why? Because it
provides multi-media functional interaction across audio, video, and computer
media. It is also ideal for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners.
Most teachers lack adequate professional development on how to create and find
quality interactive lessons, along with how to integrate the technology
effectively into classroom instruction. This is the huge contributing factor as
to why IWBs
IWBs
or SMART Boards are used
ineffectively in many classrooms.
An interactive White Board (IWB) or SMART Board has the potential to deliver content better than traditional methods of teaching. Why? Because it provides multi-media functional interaction across audio, video, and computer media. It is also ideal for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners.
These qualities of an IWB also promote the dynamic delivery of content (if used to its full potential) in an engaging manner, which allows students to interact with science or math content their self. Examples include:
* data manipulation
* responding to data
* even creating data
So with all these attributes -
"How are interactive white boards unsuccessfully used in science and math classrooms?" For the most part - not effectively!
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"Research has been conducted on how to aid blind peoples' perceptions and cognition of scientific data and, specifically, on how to strengthen their background in mathematics as a means of accomplishing this goal. In search of alternate modes to vision, researchers and practitioners have studied the opportunities of haptics alone and in combination with other modes, such as audio."
Most of today's students either own or use iPods, iPod Touches, MP3 Players, and computers everyday. These digital tools provide a natural strategy to support student learning - Podcasts!