2. All About the Students Students Say #1 Students Say #2 Personal Reflection Interactive for students and teachers Interactive #1 Interactive #2 Personal Reflection Has Potential Potential #1 Potential #2 Personal Reflection Conclusion
3. William Beeland Jr., author of Student Engagement, Visual Learning and Technology: Can Interactive Whiteboards Help? , decided to do a survey and some interviews with some students to see what they think about the whiteboard. The survey asked the students questions about their attitudes, experiences, and education about/towards the whiteboard. The students surveyed about the whiteboard said what they like most about the whiteboard was being about to touch applications on the board and said it helped them concentrate in their classrooms. They also said that they learned better from the board because of the visual appearances make it easier to understand the teacher. The students that were surveyed also said that what they liked least about the board was the shadow your hand cast because of the light made it difficult to write on sometimes.
4. The students also said that when they use the smartboard the reason they learn better is because both the teachers and the students can be more hands on with the learning process. Another item that William pointed out is that some of the teachers surveyed also thought the smartboard to bring more interaction with the kids, and also more entertaining , which made it easier to grab the students attention and to keep their attention throughout the class. William came to the conclusion that smartboards to nothing more then help out the students, and more importantly their students. Questions (5 out of 20) Average Rating Standard Deviation I enjoyed using a white board. 3.80 .10 I concentrate better in classing when a whiteboard is used to deliver instructions. 3.40 .15 I know that using technology gives me opportunities to learn many new things. 3.60 .12 Using whiteboard is not very frustrating. 3.50 .20 I cannot learn more from books then a whiteboard. 3.30 .16
5. I enjoyed this article a lot. It provided good information about what the students thought and felt about the whiteboard. Normally, everything that is read about the whiteboard has to do with helping out the teachers, and what the teacher can gain from this board. However, in this article it lets the readers know what the students think about the white board and what they personally feel they get out from the whiteboard. Also what they think the pro’s/con’s are about the board itself, and its performance.
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8. This article gave me a lot of information about what the whiteboards offer teachers. Also what the teachers can offer students because of the whiteboard. I enjoyed reading this article a lot, since I would love to be a teacher some day, it gave me some knowledge about what to look for and also what I can do to keep my students engaged, when I eventually get my own classroom. It was a very interesting and informative article.
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12. All of these article had to do with smartboards. Between these article I learned a lot of information. I learned that smartboards are not always the best technology to be used by everyone, however if a teacher had prior learning about the board they see the potential that the board can bring. The whiteboard also has very many task is can perform that being able for students to work in larger groups for activates, and also is also with active learning by using graphics and sounds, which also helps keeps their students engaged. Whiteboards can also be fit in to any teaching styles because they are very versatile. Along with students enjoying smartboards, it was also brought up in on article that the students also enjoy the smartboard a lot. It was also surveyed that the smartboard does help interact the students in the lesson plans. This is all of the information I found from my three articles about smartboards.
