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Interactive Whiteboards in the Classroom: A Primary Teacher’s
Perspective
Dughall McCormick
Primary ICT Consultant,
Kirklees Local Education Authority, UK
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Interactive Whiteboards in the UK
• 2004 - IWBs accounted for a fifth of the total UK budget for ICT in Primary and Secondary schools.
• 2005 - Pledge by Secretary of State for Education: ‘One whiteboard per school’
• 2007- 200,000 IWBs in UK schools (7.5/school)
• 1 in 9 Classrooms to have a board by 2010
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Foundation Stage (Age 3-5 years)
Key Features
• Continuous provision.• Girls and boys. • Inherent ICT skills.• Novelty• Collaboration,
negotiation, turn-taking.
• Access issues.
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Key Stage One (Age 6-8years)
• Greater emphasis on teacher-led interactive activities.
• Use of visualiser.
• Increased use of classroom response system.
• Wireless slate introduced.
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Key Stage Two (Age 8-11 years)
• Children have increased ownership of the technology.
• Children prepare and deliver presentations and learning materials on a peer-tutor model.
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Key Features of IWB Technology
• A high degree of interaction and collaboration.
• Children have a highly participatory role in their learning.
• Children acquire generic ICT skills through interacting with the technology
• It enables quick, easy display and annotation of text, pictures, artefacts, children’s work etc.
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Problems with the Technology
• Practitioners relinquishing control.
• Training and support for practitioners.
• Technical issues.
• Availability of software.
• Limited collaboration.
• ‘Touch sensitive’ surfaces.
• Failure to exploit the potential.
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The Future
• Bottom-up product development.
• Building Schools for the Future.
• Multiple input solutions. Greater collaboration, remote and distance learning.Use of PDAs, EDAs, UMPCs etc.