What value do interactive whiteboards (IWBs) have in today’s classrooms?
"Interactive Whiteboards are very important. Their value is that they provide ‘technology’ to teachers while they teach. In the past, teachers used to use technology to prepare their lessons before they entered the classroom, and then to keep assessment records and the like after they left. Before interactive Whiteboards, when teachers ‘taught’ in the classroom usually their only tool was a stick of chalk and their voice. Research shows that it is the quality of the ‘teaching’ that has the greatest impact of the standard of student learning. But an Interactive Whiteboard can improve the quality of teaching by giving access to the potential of ICT."

From inspired to dreadful, Peter Kent’s seen just about everything when it comes to interactive whiteboards. Here he talks to INTERFACE editor Greg Adams about their potential and how teachers should be using them. Read more here: http://www.nz-interface.co.nz/articles.cfm?c_id=9&id=26