There’s a new form of learning hitting a classroom near you - it’s manufactured, and it’s interactive. It comes in the form of something known as an ‘interactive whiteboard,’ but what is an interactive whiteboard, and just what exactly does it do?
An interactive whiteboard (IWB) is to be defined as a large display panel that can be hooked up to a computer and a projector. Once hooked up, the projector can transmit the desktop display of the computer onto the whiteboard panel. What’s unique, however, is that the projection of the desktop can actually be controlled via human touch. Users can interact with the whiteboard using either their own finger, a pen or another rounded device.
It’s a form of augmented reality, and it’s taking the world by storm. Teachers are embracing interactive whiteboards as an imperative part of classroom activity.
Interactive Whiteboards in Schools
Since their inception into the market, the innovation of interactive whiteboard products has created a salient point for presentational mediums. IWBs have achieved their success through alleviating the need for interactivity in an otherwise relatively static form of communication. In turn, this has quite flippantly changed the ways in which children learn in the classroom.
Teachers see many positives in using interactive whiteboard products because ‘hands-on’ exercises seem to resonate better with school children, henceforth [...]
