Interactive Whiteboards

Interactive whiteboards enhance teaching and learning in multiple ways. For example, it makes learning interactive for students in the classroom, which engages their minds and makes learning fun. The technology was somewhat difficult at first to learn, but after practice it got easier to understand. Some pros for using an interactive whiteboard are showing video clips, interactive learning, writing on the board and being able to erase it/fix it, and showing examples to students that are able to move and interact with students. Some cons for using them in the classroom are that the software on them can get out of date or break. It would be a pain if you planned a lesson on the whiteboard and then came into class the next day to find the interactive whiteboard broken. Some of the lessons I wrote in the past were about life cycles, adaptations, geometry, and counting. I could use some of the interactive activities that the Smartboard software has for practice for any of these lessons. For example, for the geometry lesson I could have many different shapes on the screen and then have different sections on the board where students have to place the shape that fits the best in the specific section. I don't think I would use the interactive whiteboard everyday in my classroom, but it is a good piece of technology to implement in certain lessons.