Interactive Whiteboards

As we have read in the two articles we were to read called, Teaching with Interactive Whiteboards and 2 Steps to Create Great Lessons with a SMART Board, we find that these interactive boards can lead great success in the classroom for students.  As one article stated, it help increase student learning curves by almost 16 percent.  This type of increase can only be contributed the increased student involvment in the classroom activities.  Thus leading to greater learning.  For many teachers, the use of whiteboards can be tricky if not well prepared or studied.  However, with the increased use of Whiteboards there are more and more places to access lessons.  In fact, many of the lesson are already pre-made and can be slightly adjusted to meet you curriculum or circumstances.  Unfortunately, as both articles have eluded to if not properly used can be detrimental to the student and the classroom.  So as teachers, we must be aware that the use of technology can be wonderful and exciting, but we must also proceed with caution.  As a future teacher, the idea of allowing students to use the boards in an interactive way seems almost like a dream.  Cause from my own personal experience as a student I found that some of the most boring times as a student were due to teachers who insisted that the only way to learn was from the lecture stand point.  Once again, the future is upon us, we can either choose to embrace it or die and move to the wayside by our old and antiquated ways.