Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Smartboard in Education

The Smartboard is one of the best teaching tools available and there is so much more you can actually do with it. The Smartboard is and interactive, white board like device that allows you to project movies, articles, websites and provides hands-on learning experience.

As a future elementary school teacher, I will use the Smartboard in daily activities from writing and math problems, to watching movies and displaying a PowerPoint presentation that you can write on directly using the provided digital markers/keyboard. One, thing that I have recently seen the Smartboard being used for, is as a breakfast activity in an elementary classroom. In the Boise school district it is now a priority to have the students eat breakfast in the classroom, which honestly takes time from the learning experience. So, Mrs. Poste, at Horizon Elementary school, implements learning activities that the students can interact with while eating. For one activity she would have a little reading bear up on the screen in which he would interact with the students and talk about weather, colors etc. Also, this bear would read sentences to the students and would highlight the words to provide visual and auditory stimulants, which enhanced the students intake of information.

I will hopefully have the opportunity to use a smartboard in my future classroom, and if it is not available I am definitely going to write a grant to see if I could have one given to my class! 

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