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color=#0000ff size=2>This is something I hadn't considered, but it strikes me as
an expensive option to persuade teachers to use more IT in the
classroom.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2>One thing I have found in my youtube traves is this <A
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSDxc2kFjms">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSDxc2kFjms</A> which
is an engineer producing excellent tech options</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=500395105-11032009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Cheers,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=500395105-11032009><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Jamie</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au
[mailto:yr7-10it-bounces@edulists.com.au] <B>On Behalf Of </B>ken
price<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, 11 March 2009 9:26 AM<BR><B>To:</B> Year 7 - 10
Information Technology Teachers' Mailing List<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Yr7-10it]
Tools for Interactivity (Was: Missed the boat?)<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Good points, </DIV>
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<DIV>One other benefit, which is seldom the main reason given for adopting IWBs,
is that teachers who are reluctant users of ICT in the classroom see the IWB as
a whiteboard (with which they are comfortable) and not a computer (with
which they are not) </DIV>
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<DIV>In many IWB installations everything is fixed in place so they have
less of the "what plugs in where" obstacles to ICT use. The environment is very
similar to a traditional classroom - this familiarity avoids what some teachers
see as a need to radically change in the way they work.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>One particular example that springs to mind was the meeting
room of a group of educational administrators in Victoria, where the computer
was intentionally hidden so that the staff weren't aware that this was a
computer-based environment (I guess it must have been set running by someone
else). The staff there reported that this worked very well in getting reluctant
adopters to take on the technology. Eventually they were using the general
computer aspect of the board, yet past attempts to use ICT had not been
successful.</DIV>
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<DIV>Another example was seeing a group of ICT-averse teachers use Google
Earth on an IWB. The physical size of the image and the ability to point to
places on it (as one does with a normal map) and have things happen was
enough motivation for some teachers to subsequently investigate the use of
Google Earth on classroom desktops. This was effective, whereas all past
attempts at professional learning with ICT had little impact on that cohort.
Frustrating, but a reality for a
small number of teachers.</DIV>
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<DIV>In the UK (and in some tertiary institutions here) the mimicing of
traditional environments with IWBs has been taken further with the use of
lecterns where the control functions are installed. So a teacher
transported through time from the 1950s might feel at home :-)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The effects here are not simply Hawthorne effects, though there will
be of course some component of that sort. The mechanism is one of providing slow
change by using tools that initially match the environment with which users are
comfortable, then helping them make better use of the additional features.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So perhaps there is another function of IWBs - "trainer wheels"
for reluctant users? Or in Roland's terms. a way to help them upgrade to
version 1.0 ... or maybe version 0.9 beta? ;-)</DIV>
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<DIV>Ken</DIV>
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