Another ICT Answer

In googling around about the IWB survey, I came across an article by Mr Sanjesh Sharma about the use of ICT in ICT at Djanogly City Academy in Nottingham. He for one seems convinced of the effectiveness of ICT in the learning process!

Although if you read the article, you might agree with me that he he does not regard IWBs as cutting edge.

Interactive Whiteboard Survey

There was a news item this morning on Radio 4 quoting a survey which had found that IWBs have made no difference to school results in England and Wales. Unfortunately I cannot find any further reference to this survey. Although this appears to be the source, the London Institute of Education

However I am not all that surprised. I am not certain if teacher training, the curriculum, the pedagogy and particularly the exam boards have yet caught up with the technology available. Anybody who thinks that putting an IWB into classroom will on its own improve performance probably also believes in Father Christmas. (Perhaps it is more PC to say Person Christmas!)

I have already written about this in my own post so I will not repeat it again. Suffice to say that IWBs, Glow here in Scotland, blogs, wikis, etc. do give teachers lots of tools but only if we make the fundamental shift to allowing pupils to actively learn. It is also worth reading thepost and comments on Andrew Brown’s blog.