Whiteboards - Interactive Or...

The most important question to ask when looking to purchase an interactive whiteboard (iwb) is how the teacher is going to use it. Direct substitution is the lowest level of tech integration and is the least effective at improving student engagement and learning. Teacher training can remedy having iwb's used for only lecturing or for mainly teacher-centered use. The focus should be on the student interactivity combined with teacher-led structure.

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Here are some resources for an iwb purchase:

The Ten No Nos of Teaching with a Projector or Interactive Whiteboard by the Innovative Educator, Lisa Nielsen

The Reasons Why Interactive Whiteboards Are Being Attacked by Emily Starr

IWB Resource Links

What Schools Should Do

Next big things in tech ideas:

Tech Alone is NOT Enough

Why Ed Tech Is Not Transforming How Teachers Teach

Students in a classroom at Mount Pleasant High School in Wilmington, Del., listen to a social studies lecture from their teacher.

—Charles Mostoller for Education Week

Student-centered, technology-driven instruction remains elusive for most

By Benjamin Herold

Public schools now provide at least one computer for every five students. They spend more than $3 billion per year on digital content. And nearly three-fourths of high school students now say they regularly use a smartphone or tablet in the classroom.
But a mountain of evidence indicates that teachers have been painfully slow to transform the ways they teach, despite that massive influx of new technology into their classrooms. The student-centered, hands-on, personalized instruction envisioned by ed-tech proponents remains the exception to the rule.


"The introduction of computers into schools was supposed to improve academic achievement and alter how teachers taught," said Stanford University education professor Larry Cuban. "Neither has occurred."

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#csd49 #NCCE2015 Tweets

Here are Tweets from the Chimacum School District Tech Committee's trip to NCCE 2015 in Portland, OR (#NCCE2015):