IWB issues at my placement school.

Last week i met the E-learning Coordinator at the school. I wanted to find out if i could use the interactive white boards for teaching. This is what i found out -

• The school has Smart Boards, Two Touch and Prometheus boards.


• The smart boards are no longer used for interactivity because the 10minutes it took to calibrate them at the beginning was too much time wasted in a lesson.


• The two touch are the most commonly used now in the school and mainly in Music classes.

SO - what does this all mean? I think mainly it points to a low intergration of IWB in edu settings, well this school anyhow, teachers are pressed for time and learning new software is just not an easy option.

Its just like Tony Jones pointed out in todays lesson, there are barriers to using IWB in ed and the idea that technology (such as IWB), will revolutionise teaching are some what a fallacy - using this technology takes effort and ingenuity to implement - with teachers in public schools stretched to the limit as it is where will the the energy for this to evolve come from!