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The argument I hear that "an IWB does not let me do anything I couldn't do with xxxx" - pieces of cardboard with words on them, sheets of butchers paper and blu-tack, an overhead projector, a pair of real dice, a big wooden protractor... you name it... is a complete piece of misdirection about the real value that an IWB can bring to a classroom. It is NOT about whether an IWB can "only" be used to do something that was already possible using a different technology. The real point is that the IWB, by converging so many classroom tools into a single, digital, point of contact on a large shared screen that every participant of the classroom can see, hear and engage with, fundamentally changes a whole lot of things.