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An electronic whiteboard is an excellent presentational device. It can be used as an alternative to virtually every other classroom resource, traditional and modern, for example blackboards, flip charts, OHPs, maps, pictures, number lines, ‘big books’, calculators, and cassette and video players. At a touch, the teacher has access to a bank of resources that would previously have taken years to accumulate and a vast cupboard to store.

However, the electronic whiteboard has the potential to do much more – to go beyond display, providing a tool for interactive teaching and learning. Of course, not all learning is interactive. Children may be learning when they read text, study a map or watch a video. The trouble is, from the teacher’s point of view, the nature of this learning cannot be observed – it is not possible to see whether pupils are understanding or internalising the ideas being presented to them. Interactive teaching involves the use of strategies that stimulate feedback from pupils. This is not just of benefit to the teacher. Children learn much more effectively when they are active agents in their own learning, when they make their thinking explicit by words or actions, when they take ownership of ideas and information. Also, slower learners benefit from seeing other children demonstrate and explain their thinking and model how they arrive at their solutions.

Publication Date: 2015

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