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arickelsA blog about interactive whiteboards and how they can be used effectively in education. Also discussion of other technology that impacts on education
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Sara Schoepke"IWBs and Raising Attainment
Robert Marzano has just published an article in Educational Leadership that is worth a look. It’s based on the research project he carried out for Promethean which was published earlier this year (which I covered on the Blog here)
His research found that in general the use of an interactive whiteboard did produce a rise in student attanment.
He found that there were three features of the IWB that had a statistically significant relationship with student achievement. These were:
* Student-response devices – Voting kits such as Smart Response or ActivExpression. He found this accounted for a 26 percentile point gain in attainment.
* Use of graphics and other visuals. Marzano found that using images, charts and videos was also associated with a 26 percentile point gain.
* Use of whiteboard reinforcers. Simple “checks of knowledge” that can be played on the board such as “rub to reveal” “drag and drop” etc to reinforce the learning in the lesson. This had a 31% gain. Which is pretty impressive.
Pitfalls
Marzano also found that in 23% of classes, using the IWB did not lead to better results. In fact in those classrooms students did better without the IWB
On examining the evidence, Marzano and his researchers discovered that there were potential pitfalls in using interactive whiteboards:
* Using the voting devices but doing little with the findings. In many classrooms, teachers simply noted how many students obtained the correct answer instead of probing into why one answer was more appropriate than another.
* Not organizing or pacing the content well. In these cases, the teachers incorporated video segments from the Internet or images intended to represent important information in their digital flipcharts. However, they ran through the flipcharts so quickly that students, although impressed with the graphics, did not have time to analyze and interact with one another about the content.
* Using too many visuals. Digital flipchart pages were awash with visual -
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Keri-Lee BeasleyBlog about the use of interactive whiteboards in the classroom. Lots of useful links
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My name is Danny Nicholson and I am a freelance educational consultant. My main speciality is the use of Interactive Whiteboards, but I am interested in lots of different bits of tech that are now being used in schools.
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Mallory BurtonThis is a great blog about interactive whiteboards and how they can be used effectively in education. Also discussion of other technology that impacts on education
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Alexis KrystenDanny Nicholson is a freelance educational consultant. Main speciality is the use of Interactive Whiteboard
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