Interactive Whiteboards are useless. Discuss.
It's not about the board...This slideshow by Chris Bletcher I found in a link included in the debate on whether or not "IWBs are useless" on Cardiff Online, the online coverage of the 43rd Annual International IATEFL Conference.
IWBs are not (obviously) useless, provided that you use them well, whatever that means [discussion]. In that sense they're like any other technology.
At IH Barcelona we're at the stage of having got the boards but are still wondering (a) what we're supposed to be doing with them; (b) how to persuade teachers to use them and (c) what training we should be providing.
I'm personally a great believer "learning by quotation", "learning by soundbite" if you prefer, and particularly like the quotation shown in the image, above. It's tough to wade through all the information, the partisan debates and so on. It helps if you can cut out some of the noise.
Learning to use an IWB is a question of "learning by doing"; in attempting to learning to use one well, it probably helps to do some "learning by quotation" first.
See also >> The Interactive Whiteboard Revolution
Labels: Interactive whiteboards, Using technology
posted by Tom at 2:31 PM
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Think IWBs are like Second Life: sure, they're good for some subjects (like science). But it's assumed that therefore they MUST be good for learning languages. Not necessarily true, for either IWBs or SL.
In general terms, I think there may be some truth in that.
I have, however, seen the digitalized versions of the coursebooks from Longman and OUP designed for use with the IWB and must say I'm impressed.
But WHY are you impressed? The WOW factor?
OK, partly the WOW factor, but partly because I think "WOW! I'd like to access to that in my class".
I think my learners would like to have access to that.
Rather than looking down at their coursebooks, I see them looking up at the digitalised version.
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