INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD IN INSTRUCTION

Honeymoon with IWBs: A qualitative insight in primary students' views on instruction with interactive whiteboard

The main purpose of this study was to investigate the views of primary students about interactive whiteboard [IWB] use in their classes from attitudinal and pedagogical perspectives. Research was designed as an empirical approach to phenomenology. Data was collected from fifty primary students (fourth to eighth) through focus group interviews. Nvivo 9 qualitative data analysis software was used...

Orchestration with the Interactive Whiteboard

The Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) is the first ICT tool primarily designed for whole-class interaction. It is now in regular use in most British primary schools. Research into its introduction in classrooms has revealed its distinctive potential for enabling the teacher to plan and orchestrate lessons using a wide range of multimodal resources. In this paper we explore ways in which teachers use...

Programming Education on an Interactive Electronic Whiteboard

This paper describes a new paradigm of programming education using a large electronic whiteboard that combines the merits of classroom lectures using a black/white board and those of computer processing. Using this system, a teacher can write a program on the board, explain it, make the system recognize it and run the program in front of the class while keeping the attention of the students foc...

Interactive WhiteBoard: Effective Interactive Teaching Strategy Designs for Biology Teaching

Interactive Instruction in Bayesian Inference

An instructional approach is presented to improve human performance in solving Bayesian inference problems. Starting from the original text of the classic Mammography Problem, the textual expression is modified and visualizations are added according to Mayer’s principles of instruction. These principles concern coherence, personalization, signaling, segmenting, multimedia, spatial contiguity, a...