Overview
Final report on interactive whiteboards by Dave Miller and Derek Glover, Keele University, March 2006. This report is based upon analysis of mathematics lessons in secondary schools that had recently been supported by a government initiative aiming to secure more widespread use of interactive whiteboards in secondary education. Lesson observations show that where associated boards are still available teachers use these either as a support for side arguments or re-visited concepts or as a resource to show pupils how calculations are worked through. Teachers clearly pass through a sequence of understanding and gaining fluency in the use of IWB techniques. This had been achieved to a basic level within a matter of weeks and then to varying degrees as teachers develop confidence in the use of software provided with the IWB. Teachers then move from concentration on presentation ‘a smarter normal board’ to ‘the IWB as something different’. To reach this stage teachers incorporate manipulations such as drag and drop, and hide and reveal and use virtual manipulatives to add liveliness to teaching.
