Looking for insight on SMART Airliner wireless slates - Classroom 2.02024-03-29T06:39:20Zhttps://www.classroom20.com/forum/topics/looking-for-insight-on-smart?feed=yes&xn_auth=noTrevor,
To answer the questi…tag:www.classroom20.com,2008-12-01:649749:Comment:2264622008-12-01T02:05:29.243ZChristopher Kleinhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/ChristopherKlein
Trevor,<br />
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To answer the question of little large scale empirical evidence impacting student achievement I'd like to direct you to the study that was released by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) last fall. A summary of the findings can be found here:…
Trevor,<br />
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To answer the question of little large scale empirical evidence impacting student achievement I'd like to direct you to the study that was released by the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) last fall. A summary of the findings can be found here: <a href="http://partners.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/page_documents/research/whiteboards_expansion_summary.pdf">http://partners.becta.org.uk/upload-dir/downloads/page_documents/research/whiteboards_expansion_summary.pdf</a>.<br />
In short, The report examines the progress of 7,272 students in 332 classrooms and found:<br />
Some of the key findings from the research include the following:<br />
• In sixth-grade science, most students made greater progress with two years’ exposure to interactive whiteboards. Some students made as much as 7.5 months’ additional progress<br />
• In sixth-grade writing, some students made 2.5 months’ additional progress with two years’ exposure to interactive whiteboards<br />
• Teachers reported that using interactive whiteboards positively impacted lesson preparation time, student assessment and student learning outcomes<br />
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It is important to note that the UK is ahead of North America in their implementation and use of Interactive Whiteboards in the classroom and there are many other studies that you will find by looking across the pond. A huge point that has come from their studies is the importance of PD in conjunction with the hardware to ensure long-term success.<br />
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Another place to look is the Emints organization (<a href="http://www.emints.org">http://www.emints.org</a>). They are a PD plan that originated out of the University of Missouri that looked at PD with Technology. They found that 100% of the time, standardized test scores can be improved by using a constructivist approach to teaching and the implementation of the right tools (computers, projectors, printers, SMARTBoards, etc.)<br />
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As for the Airliner Wireless Slates, I can tell you that in my experience I would advocate for a board 100% of the time over the slate. Not only is their an additional hardware learning curve with the slate that is not present with the boards, it is drastically a paradigm shift in the classroom environment. The best utilizations of slates that I have seen is when instructors use multiple slates simultaneously in the classroom thus allowing more than one student to ink and annotate on the screen at the same time.<br />
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"Hardware without teaching is junk." Any of the above equipment can be a transformative inclusion into the classroom, as long as the teacher commits to seeing how this will change the approach of the teaching environment for them.<br />
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chris I would contact Chris Betcher…tag:www.classroom20.com,2008-11-29:649749:Comment:2256642008-11-29T23:06:54.287ZCathy Nelsonhttps://www.classroom20.com/profile/cnelson
I would contact Chris Betcher, who is actually from Sydney, Australia (I think). He blogs <a href="http://betch.edublogs.org/">here</a>. But he has written quite a bit about interactive classrooms, and I think he would agree, an interactive white board does not make for an interactive classroom. The interactive classroom comes with a paradigm shift in the way an educator thinks of the classroom. No single piece of equipment does that at all. This also goes back to the saying that it is not…
I would contact Chris Betcher, who is actually from Sydney, Australia (I think). He blogs <a href="http://betch.edublogs.org/">here</a>. But he has written quite a bit about interactive classrooms, and I think he would agree, an interactive white board does not make for an interactive classroom. The interactive classroom comes with a paradigm shift in the way an educator thinks of the classroom. No single piece of equipment does that at all. This also goes back to the saying that it is not about the technology, but the learning. Many schools worldwide seem to suffer from the slow rate of change classrooms today so disparately need.