Tuesday, 20 January 2015

Interactive Whiteboards in Education

Interactive Whiteboards have been introduced into Education as a way of making lessons interactive, fun and memorable. 

It is said that 'Anything that can be done on a computer monitor, can be replicated on the interactive white board.'. Therefore this allows a teacher to plan an interesting lesson which engages pupils. A teacher may include one task, for example, a matching game, this will allow students to match items with their finger or pen. The interactive whiteboard allows pupils to engage with websites, photos and music. The children can write their opinions on the board about them and have fun moving them around or carrying out searches. 




As you can see from this example, the children are very excited to use the interactive whiteboard, and use it as a way of showing the teacher and the rest of the class what they are capable of. I think that it is vital that children have fun when learning as this is the best way for them to learn. 

As well as showing their knowledge on a topic, children engaging with the whiteboard are also showing presentation skills and increase in confidence. 

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