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Craig Nansen

Whiteboards: Learning From Great Britain | Scholastic.com - 6 views

  • "The interactive whiteboard is very good at saving information, bringing it back up, and re-annotating it,"
  • Teachers have begun actively exchanging lessons, as well. St. Matthew teachers make active use of the online 21st Century Science site created by the local education authority in London. "People cherry-pick and share best practices," Cregan explains. "Basically, somebody else has written a lesson and they just tweak it and they're ready to go."
  • Barker has also seen growth in the use of devices such as digital cameras and interactive response systems, which allow students to click answers to questions and—with some whiteboards—text longer responses that can be kept private or projected publicly.
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  • The most effective professional development, suggests researcher Judith Kleine Staarman, has focused on getting teachers to go beyond the basics. "IWBs only really make sense if you start thinking about the teaching and learning you want to do in the classroom."
  • you need to figure out how to use thinking time and conversation
  • "We also realized that we had to be subject-specific,"
  • Research conducted in England
  • found that IWBs were proving most effective in the primary grades, so much so that after two years of whiteboard use, student achievement in math, science, and English accelerated by as much as six months or more.
  • "Another difference between what England did and what we did was our ongoing professional development," Coleman says, adding that instructional technology facilitators meet one-on-one with classroom teachers to adapt lessons to the SMART Board, plan new lessons, and co-teach. "During the first year of using the IWB, each teacher receives 10 to 25 hours of differentiated professional development, determined by what kind of learner that teacher is."
  • the deployment took place in three phases, moving from early adopters to the most reluctant users. "By the time we got to the last group," Tarver explains, "they had seen so many good things going on around the campus that they weren't reluctant anymore."
  • Tarver also says that subject area coordinators have sought to embed the new whiteboards into classroom culture by including them in the district's curriculum framework, which identifies resources and timely opportunities for using the IWBs with particular lessons.
  • the kind of collaborative engagement promoted by IWBs fulfill state standards, and that one year after their implementation, average student scores on the state's Academic Performance Index rose from 800 to 827. Science teachers, meanwhile, have created a bank of 100 lessons using the SMART Board, and math teachers another 75.
  • Fishtrom says getting teachers to think pedagogically about IWBs is front and center in their professional development. He points to one recent history exercise in which students marked up a split screen of pre- and post-World War I maps of Europe, discussed what had changed, and saved the document for future review. "It's very rare that I walk by a classroom and the boards are not being used for a good reason."
  • encouraging results for regular use of the interactive whiteboard in the elementary grades.
  • 7.5: Months of additional progress for low-attaining boys in science
  • 5: Months of additional progress for high-attaining boys in math
  • 2.5: Months of additional progress for girls of average attainment in math
  • 2.5: Months of additional progress for low-attaining boys in writing
  • 2–3: The number of children working at an interactive whiteboard at one time in classrooms where all children made significant and measurable gains
  • 18: The number of months after installation of an IWB in which the majority of teachers had become highly competent users
  • 100%: Kids who are enthusiastic about interactive whiteboards
  • Whiteboards: Learning From Great Britain
  • The U.K. pioneered the importance of teacher buy-in, effective planning, and curriculum integration.
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    Spurred on by an ambitious government program and hundreds of millions of dollars in funding since 2003, more than three quarters of British schools have installed IWBs and amassed plenty of experience in how-and how not-to use them.
K Epps

Curriculum Leadership Journal | Fast, frustrating and the future: ICT, new technologies... - 0 views

  • In one study, a team of researchers from Keele University (Miller, Glover & Averis nd) investigated the use of IWBs by mathematics teachers. They found that teachers pass through three pedagogic phases as they learn to use IWBs effectively. In the first phase, the supported didactic, teachers use the technology in the same way as an ordinary whiteboard. The second phase, interactive, involves deeper understanding of the technology and results in teachers using it to enhance traditional teaching rather than as ‘the driving force for conceptual understanding and cognitive development’ (ibid).By contrast, those teachers who used IWBs most effectively were in the enhanced interactivity phase. These teachers used techniques to:offer the same idea in different ways until … all the group understand, and this requires meticulous planning and the need for continuous assessment so that whether answering at the IAW (IWB) or on their own whiteboards, whether using individual or small group work, and whether working on examples or investigations, pupils are challenged not only to say what but also why (ibid).Where teachers were working at the enhanced interactivity phase, three underlying principles seemed to be present:1. The technology was used to support a lesson structure based on an introduction or starter, a developmental phase based on a sequence of learning incidents, and a plenary to review learning and contribute to metacognitive learning of the subject.2. Most teachers were undertaking lesson planning that had a sequence of discernible cognitive aims and a series of activities to explore, develop, explain and reinforce both developing concepts and subsequent understanding.3. There was a high level of teacher recognition that pupils learn in different ways and the IAW was used to promote diversity of aesthetic, verbal, numeric and kinaesthetic experiences (ibid).
K Epps

Maths Online - Decimal numberline tool - 1 views

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    "The Decimal Number Line tool allows teachers to display and interact with a number line. The number line can be moved around and zoomed bigger or smaller. Teachers can decide on which units are displayed and also whether unit marks are displayed. What's really cool is that teachers and students can move an arrow back and forth above the number and when they're ready, they can touch above the arrow to reveal the arrow's location on the number line. The number can be turned off and on just by touching above the arrow. " description by Jim Hollis
International School of Central Switzerland

My Interactive Classroom | Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Learning Games | Tasmania Austr... - 5 views

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    "My Interactive Classroom produces interactive whiteboard (IWB) learning games and classroom materials that engage students and make learning fun. The learning resources presented on this site raise the level of interactivity obtained from your interactive whiteboard. An IWB should be interactive for all. Often commercial and net based interactive materials are too teacher orientated - they are about the teacher clicking and 'interacting' with the board, while the students just "watch the interaction". My Interactive Classroom resources are whole class activities. Interaction is designed to be between the students and the board or, even more importantly, the activities facilitate learning interaction between the students themselves. My Interactive Classroom provides free download and very affordable learning games and classroom resource materials. All have been developed by experienced classroom teachers for you to enjoy with your own class. Please feel free to contact us with your comments, ideas and testimonies."
International School of Central Switzerland

Johnnie's Math Page - Fun Math for Kids and their Teachers - 0 views

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    Links to interactive math tools and activities for students and teachers. Johnnie's Math Page is the site to find fun math for kids, math games, and even a little math homework help. Interactive math activities from across the web have been organized by topic to make math learning enjoyable and interesting. For parents and teachers, you will find math lessons and math worksheets as well as links to other math teaching resources. For those who like a challenge, you will find free math games in the math puzzles section.
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    Links to Interactive Math Tools and Activities for Students and Teachers
International School of Central Switzerland

Math Teacher Resources from DreamBox Learning - 11 views

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    At DreamBox we're dedicated to bringing math to life for all students. So we've created these free Teacher Tools - virtual manipulatives that can be used in large- or small-group instructional settings. You can use these math tools - tenframes, mathracks, and other innovative tools - with your interactive white board or projector to make math lessons clear for your whole class, or even on your computer for smaller groups.
K Epps

WAIT - 0 views

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    Fellow Educators, I am the deputy director of eduction at the Taubman Museum of Art located in Roanoke, VA (see http://taubmanmuseum.org). I have designed, and we have recently had created, a Web-based Art Interactive Tool (WAIT) that allows users to interact with works in our permanent collection in a unique manner. Using a scaffolding interpretive model that I also designed (REED-LO), users, through WAIT, formulate an interpretation of a work of art in our collection. WAIT provides the user with guiding questions and allows users to record their thoughts online - in the end, they publish their overall interpretation of the work of art online. Teachers can create, for free, "classrooms" through WAIT that includes all of their students. They can then assign a specific work of art to their students. The students then access the work using a unique username and password. After they publish their interpretations, the teacher can approve each interpretation which then allows the students to access what their peers wrote about the work of art as well as the "expert" essay related to the work. In essence WAIT allows users to formulate a personal meaning of a work of art before reading what others have written about the work. WAIT can be found both through the Taubman Museum of Art's website, under the "Learn" section, or by going to www.waitarttool.com - it is free to use. I was hoping some of you would check out WAIT and discuss your thoughts about the tool through this forum. Be aware, however, there are some minor bugs that we are working through - but for the most part it is working fine.
International School of Central Switzerland

Getting SMARTER with SMART Boards - 1 views

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    New and interesting information related to Smart Board use in education. From The Teacher Center of Broome County is one of 133 New York State funded teacher resource and computer training centers.
K Epps

Tech4Learning - Pics4Learning - 0 views

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    Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers.
K Epps

Students & Teachers | WFP | United Nations World Food Programme - Fighting Hunger World... - 1 views

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    Teachers and students are especially important to WFP because the more people learn about hunger, the more likely it is that the problem will be solved.
International School of Central Switzerland

How are primary teachers' pedagogy and practice affected by using an IWB? - 0 views

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    How are primary teachers' pedagogy and practice affected by using an IWB?
International School of Central Switzerland

Planets - 5 views

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    "The site allows the teacher or student to control how they are viewing the solar system. Users can touch and drag to move things around and they have a complete set of controls to change scale, speed of orbits (passing of time), or planetary object to follow. For example, if you follow the Sun, the Sun is stationary and it shows the other planets orbiting the Sun. If you follow the Earth, then it shows the other planetary objects with a stationary Earth." (from Teachers Love SMartboards)
K Epps

Kris Fontes, Art and Graphic Design Teacher on Vimeo - 0 views

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    Spend a day with Kris Fontes, the Art and Graphic Design Teacher at Union City Middle and High School, in Union City, Pennsylvania. Visit Kris' website at krisfontes.com
K Epps

Primary Lesson Starts | Teachers TV - 0 views

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    Find short starter clips for use on interactive whiteboards in your classroom, covering primary maths, science and literacy Videos in this series: 10
K Epps

Ideas to Inspire - 0 views

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    'Ideas to Inspire' is a collection of Google Docs presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities in a range of curriculum areas.The presentations are a collaboration between lots of fantastic teachers around the world.Choose a presentation to begin,
K Epps

Art at Dryden Elementary School on Vimeo - 0 views

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    This movie provides an overview of how the art teacher, Tricia Fuglestad incorporates technology into her program at Dryden Elementary School, in Arlington Heights, Illinois. The movie was made by Craig Roland, with support from a College of Fine Arts Scholarship Enhancement Grant at the University of Florida. October, 2008
K Epps

Get SMART! (SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard) on Vimeo - 0 views

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    An extraordinary moment happened in the making of this commercial for SMART. Students were collaborating, storyboarding, visualizing, and coordinating their strategies for creating this video project on the art room's interactive whiteboard. These 4th grade students are hoping to win a SMART board for their classroom since they understand how transformational this interactive tool can be for learning. Luckily for them, their class is looping to 5th grade with the same teacher, so they would be directly benefiting if their video is chosen. See our behind the scenes video at: animoto.com/play/9i4RJibVJrLt2O0Qs1ZKDw
K Epps

HelpKidzLearn - TrainTracker - 0 views

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    drag tracks into the play space, push start to run the train . "I'm sure TrainTracker will be a big hit in the early primary grades and for older special needs children. It's also one of those great websites to bookmark at home and have your young children learn how to use a mouse while building their own little adventure world. Teachers could also utilize this site as a fun "memory helper" by drawing out a train track layout on the Smart Board and then see how well the students can recreate the layout using TrainTracker." notes from James Hollis
K Epps

Science Lab | Virtual Lab - 0 views

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    Science Lab-Experiments & projects to do at home or in the classroom The SEED Science Center is a public place where Schlumberger scientists and engineers share their knowledge and experience with learners and teachers from around the world. The web site is organized into six areas: In Science Watch you will find articles on various topics in science and engineering. They are grouped into categories: * Earth Watch is about geology, geophysics, and other earth sciences. * People In Motion has tales of traveling to remote and interesting places around the world. * Sports & Science highlights well-known and some not so well-known sports, often with insights into the underlying science of the games. * Inventing Our World is about the things we design and build. * Air & Space Watch explores the sky and in the rest of the Universe. Science Lab has hands-on and virtual experiments that you can do at home or in school, and collaborative projects that you may participate in. Many of these activities are related to concepts and topics presented in Science Watch articles. The Science Lab is divided into several areas: * Earth Science * Air & Space * Electricity & Magnetism * Properties of Liquids * Math Puzzle of the Month * Engineering Challenge
K Epps

Myths and Legends from E2BN - 0 views

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    Welcome to Myths and Legends. This site is for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling. The British Isles is rich in myths, folktales and legends. Almost every town, city and village in Britain has its own special story, be it a Celtic legend, Dark Age mystery, strange happening or fable.
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