Interactive White Boards (Week3)

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Teaching with an interactive white board can have a major impact on your students, if used properly. According to the JSET (Journal of Special Education Technology), there are many ways that an interactive white board can help in your classroom. "These include the ability to write on touch-sensitive surfaces, save documents, and simultaneously display multiple documents (Stark- man, 2006). Additionally, the features of the board make accommodations and modifications for stu- dents with cognitive disabilities easier. For example, interactive whiteboards allow teachers to demon- strate processes on the board while students follow along on worksheets or in notebooks." In addition to technology and the fact that students can learn visually, it can also be a kinesthetic teaching tool as well. If the teacher incorporates activities in which the students themselves come up and do certain tasks on the SMART board it will allow for them to engage and learn through both visual and physically performing tasks. The SMART board is also a great tool to teach students how to look up information on the internet and teach them how to do research for future projects. This article goes into depth about how certain teachers that the authors observed incorporated this new technology into their lesson plans. As a teacher it is your job to be creative and keep the students attention while teaching your objectives. With this new technology and the interactive white board, the possibilities are endless for teachers and if this is used properly teachers can relate to their students and the content in ways that they never have been able to before.