Interactive White boards

Interactive White board article

This article was a study done testing the effect of interactive white boards on student engagement. This study involved ten middle school teachers and 197 students. The teachers gave a lesson using the interactive white board in 10 classrooms, after this lesson the students were given a quiz/survey and so were the teachers. The students and the teachers both preferred the lessons using the interactive white board over the lessons without it. The article goes on to explain why, they mention three modalities of learning that the whiteboard encompasses making it easier for more students to be engaged in the lesson. They mentioned visual learning, with the interactive white board you can use text, pictures, videos, the possibilities are endless. The second modality is oral. With the interactive white board you can play music, and click on words and have them pronounced. The third modality is tactile. With the interactive white board students can physically interact with the material they are learning, this helps the tactile learners. All of these things contribute to the students level of engagement throughout the lesson. When students are motivated and engaged in learning, they will learn a lot more effectively.