Chapter 1 IWBs

Interactive Whiteboards are a wonderful tool...when used for their purpose. I have experienced MANY teachers who simply use it as a regular whiteboard. And only one teacher who has used it for more, but not at its full potential. In Chapter 1, it discusses that there is little to no difference in test scores in school using Interactive Whiteboards, and those which do not. I believe this could very well be due to the fact that teachers that have the interactive boards do not know how to use them. To be honest, I am not surprised. You give a huge piece of technology to a teacher because the teacher is to teach this technofile generation; but the generation that is teaching them are technophobes. Teachers need to better understand how to use this technology for it to be beneficial, which makes me grateful to take this class because I would be one of them!