As a school based technology specialist, I’m sometimes asked what I think of interactive whiteboards. Should we spend the couple of thousand dollars to buy some? Do they help students learn? Do they ...

Do interactive whiteboards lead to achievement gains? Does any specific technology? Whiteboards impressed me as little more than glorified slates back when I'd first learned of them--nice tools for ...

The Mobi View from eInstruction isn’t exactly an interactive ­whiteboard — and that’s the point. The tabletlike device ­allows teachers to interact with and annotate digital content in the classroom ...

Students hop out of their seats during Lonnise Gilley’s lessons as they compete to solve a geometry problem or compare the sides of color-coded shapes on the board in front of the class. As Gilley ...

Cari Orts teaches fifth grade at Spicewood Elementary School in Texas. Research has shown that interactive whiteboards make the teaching and learning process far more engaging and often lead to better ...

No cutting-edge classroomis complete without one. BENJAMIN HAZZARD remembers the first time he saw an interactive whiteboard. His seventh-graders had been chattering as usual, joking around, not ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In the majority of K-12 schools, instruction is moving away from a teacher-centric approach—in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It’s shaping up as a technological battle royale, but the fight between electronic whiteboards ...

Ann Leaness is an English teacher at the Franklin Learning Center in Center City, Philadelphia, and an adjunct professor at Neumann University. She is also a board member of the Edcamp Foundation.

When the Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) first caught the eye of educators in the late 90s and early 2000s, it invigorated hope that education technology might begin to align with the digital age. In ...