Wednesday, September 7, 2011

C4T

Switching off the Interactive White Boards for Good by Kevin McLaughlin was very interesting. The author feel that IWB's are not very useful in the classroom setting based off his experience using them. He feels as if they are too expensive, which I agree with, and how hard it would be to remove them from all the classroom settings since the hype is so big. Mr. McLaughlin did a survey with the students in his class and the students also agreed with his idea that IWB's are a waist of time to use. Mr. McLaughlin feels that it would also be a waist of time to have expo's with the headteachers, because within the next few months the training has been forgotten and many return back to their original way of teaching.

Mr McLaughlin would rather use teaching devices that are mobile like ipads, ipod, and netbooks, but my defense was; what if people started to take the devices, then you would be stuck having to replace them or eventually having to go without them. The price to keep up with the mobile devices would far more exceed the price of an IWB. Also I went on to say that IWB's are not for every class setting. I find it necessary  to only have them in classrooms that would really need them such as the class I am in now EDM 310.


After reading the comment to my post I left for Mr. McLaughlin on , I realized it isn't just about the technology it self, it is about how well you can teach the materials to the students. If the IWB works, then use what ever is best for the educator to enhance performance in the class rooms. Since the budget is low in public schools it is hard to get funding for the new gadgets available.

I agreed with what Mr. McLaughlin about how hard it is to keep up with the development in technology since there will always be something new. And as long as one teaches the curriculum and the students are learning, then that is all that should matter.

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