I have some workshops to run on Electronic Whitboards coming up next month so I thought it about time to get some slides together that look at some of the latest research.  I particularly like the research of Sandy Schuck and Matthew Kearney who have published Exploring pedagogy with interactive whiteboards: A case study of six schools available for free download from the UTS Teacher Ed site.  When you look at the scope of the research you can see that they were asking a lot of the right questions.

•  What do teachers and students see as the value of using interactive electronic whiteboards in lesson designs and what beliefs do they hold about this technology and its relationship to learning and teaching?

•  What is the role of the school in promoting innovative use of the technology? What other contextual factors constrain or enhance the use of this technology in teaching and learning?

•  What learning outcomes are supported by the use of interactive electronic whiteboards in various Key Learning Areas? What learning tasks are associated with these outcomes?

•  What pedagogical approaches are being used with this technology?

•  What does reflection about good practice and insights provided by the cases suggest about principles of good practice using interactive   electronic whiteboards?

The methodology also looks really quite sound and I was interested to read some of the teacher comments and some of the findings.

Well worth a read.

These slides summarise some of the ideas and should form a good start to a workshops on what teachers think that they may get from the use of the boards.

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