The Year 9 class and the Year 12 class are in the same room which is a stand alone room which is quite large and is fitted with an interactive whiteboard (Smart board). When given a tour of the school with my mentor i asked him if he ever uses it and he replied, not really just to project on sometimes.
I recently gave the Year 9 Class a lesson on colour theory for paint mixing which is part of a unit on Impressionist style landscape painting. After giving the class, which was a wild ride of varied levels of paint staying in the correct areas (some on paper others on students and uniforms), I reflected and thought how the whole exercise could have been explained to better effect through the use of a prepared powerpoint - or better yet an actual interactive diagram for use on the smarboard - of the colour wheel showing the primary, secondary and tertiary colours and their effects before the students went to paint wily nily on their works.
After finishing the class I had to stay back to clean brushes and the sink (need to factor in more time for students to clean up next time!) this did give me some reflective time alone in the room however and it struck me that while the interactive white board had been installed in this room, no provision had been made to make it a usable facility. The room, which has windows spanning the length of the room on two sides, has no blinds fitted to allow better visability for projections. It lead me to think that the opportunity for this technology to really work was being overlooked and I wondered if ICT in this case is seen within the school as something that was installed but never really used and hence seen as not useful?
I will investigate further......
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