Advantages And Disadvantages Of The Smart Board

Another important benefit of implementing technology in the classroom is it can help teachers create personalize instruction and make it easier to provide accommodations. It can be very difficult and time consuming to differentiate instruction for a classroom of students. The use of technology can make this a much more workable task. By using technology, the teacher can differentiate instruction with just a few swipes per student. It also gives the teacher more options to work with depending on student need. For example, if a student has trouble writing, they can use an iPad with voice adaptive software to answer questions or complete assignments. This eliminates the stress they may feel being forced to write during an assignment or test situation.

In the school each classroom has a smart board with speakers that is positioned in front center of the room. The teachers are outfitted with a MacBook laptop that they can travel with and hook up to the smart board. These computers are equipped with smart notebook, which allows them to write on slides, insert videos, graphs and even games. Teachers use Google Drive to upload lesson plans, documents and materials into a shared folder. Each classroom has a bookshelf full of text books pertaining to the main teachers subject. Some books are Advanced Placement and some for Regents material. There are teacher editions and even DVDs for resources in the

boards were integrated into the rooms to give the children an early introduction to computer technology. They also provide opportunities for hands-on activities, which is a great way for children of all ages to get in touch with the world around them. For example, in the one year old’s wing the teachers use the boards for music and sometime the Oklahoma City Zoo’s animal cameras where the teachers teach about the different types of zoo animals. But some parents have regards with SMART boards being used in their child’s room. For example, in the one year old rooms parents sometimes do not want their children being introduced to technology at that early of an age. Which is not a good idea at this time, technology is used everywhere and it is better to learn early on in life.

As a special education teacher I realize that not every student will learn the same way, each of my students will have their own way of learning some might pick things up quickly while others might take some time. In my classroom I can use the SmartBoard to help in many different types of lessons from math through science and even English. My students can use the computer to play fun and instructional games that can help with speech and language and even math. In conclusion, Universal design has opened up so many different doors for teachers in and outside of the classroom.

We have a Smart system that sometimes works and sometimes won’t turn on so it has to be touched manually to turn on. The board has parts missing so there are make shift things in the slots to compensate. Right now we use the white board and smart technologies everyday. It is a good way for the students to be engaged because there are games, moving parts and lots of pictures. These students do not do well with lecture and notes so for them we do videos, online reading as well as use the smart board for every lesson. This group of kids has to have movement and it has to be interesting. So we do a lot of presentations on the board and have them manipulate the board or have them go up and use the pens for the smart technology. Some of the challenges we have had with the technology is that I have a different computer than what is used for the school so my set up is different. Also I had to download the Smart software but it only gives you a trial for 90

Like all technology, the SMART Board has its glitches every now and then. Sometimes, Miss Hampton’s pens do not show up as the color she wants when she writes. The board can also cause stress on Kauth as well. If it is not working properly, it takes her quite some time to figure out what is wrong, this means that the class gets started later and there is not as much time to work. Some of Hampton’s students get distracted during her class and start to draw on her SMART Board, which definitely aggravates Miss Hampton. Bill Ferriter has nothing good to say in the article “Why I Hate Interactive Whiteboards”. He believes he can do the same lessons without a SMART Board. Ferriter argues that it is a tool that does little to promote independent discovery and collaborative work. He mentions that interactive whiteboards are an under informed and irresponsible purchase and they are nothing more than vain attempts to buy change. Everyone has different views of the SMART Board, and some even wonder if it will continue to grow and change our

To begin with, I asked him why he would want to use technology in learning. He eagerly answered, “it’s fun.” He later stated that he loves to play games and learn at the same time and that using technology was more exciting, interesting and more vivid than learning using books, expo-boards, and paper.

If students are doing the exact same activities on an iPad that they would a computer, then there is no advantage to having it. Since iPads are a mobile device and an Apple product, meaning they do not have Adobe, they cannot do many things that computers are capable of, as anyone who as ever had an iPad, or an Apple device, can tell you there are just certain activities that are more difficult to do on iPads. Smartboards are the same thing as a whiteboard and a projector, but when computers won’t connect to Smartboards, classes could continue if there was still a whiteboard. Problems with technology are constantly coming up and if every class relies solely on technology, there can be days where nothing can be done. Teachers can make new and exciting ways to learn. Educational games can be a huge asset to teachers who need to find a way to get students excited about learning again. What teachers need to be careful of is when students don’t actually try to learn in the games, like with Xavier in “Alien Addition”. A student randomly firing away does not help him learn how to add, even if teachers think it helps students think faster (“In Classroom of

which could include direct teaching via the interactive smart board – very helpful for visual learners,

The teacher had the students all come up to the front of the room then one by one had them take turns going up to the smartboard to create a two-digit number using their fingers to move and create ones, tens and hundreds with the blocks. Once they got the answer right the children would pick another person to go until every student participated and answered a question on the smartboard. The teacher also showed examples up on the smartboard for the students to all see. If the students made a mistake the teacher was able to fix the problem on the smart board by using her laptop at her desk. Ways that technology added to the lesson: It got students more involved and engaged with the lesson. It also broke down the hard lesson for the students to understand. It also made the lesson fun and appealed to the students visually and got the students hands-on learning. The students also have their own individual assigned iPads. Every day they have “PI time” in which they all log on to the iPads and grab headphones, and go on to the educational app called imagine learning to work on their language arts

integrated into the rooms to give the children an early introduction to computer technology. They also provide opportunities for hands-on activities, which is a great way for children of all ages to get in touch with the world around them. For example, in the one year old’s wing the teachers use the boards for music and sometime the Oklahoma City Zoo’s animal cameras where the teachers teach about the different types of zoo animals. But some parents have regards with SMART boards being used in their child’s room. For example, in the one year old rooms parents sometimes do not want their children being introduced to technology at that early of an age. Which is not a good idea at this time, technology is used everywhere and it is better to learn early on in life.

The smartboard was used by mainly the teacher, although the students interacted with it as well. This was used as an introduction to addition and subtraction word problems, and allowed for the teacher to model reading the word problems, and using the manipulatives to solve the addition or subtraction word problems. The I-pads were used mostly by students, in order to work with kidspiration. On kidspiration, the students created and moved manipulatives to solve the provided word problems. I provided the problems they would be solving on powerpoint, displayed on the

Thanks to the advantages of technology, teachers have difference ways to teach and share information with students. For instance, 10 years ago, white board is the only choice for teachers. The lessons are delivered by face to face communication between lecturers and students. They must come to class at the same time to study. Moreover, almost knowledge’s are selected from books. Nowadays, white board is replaced by projector and the lessons are shown on the screen

Technology has truly taken over the classroom many schools now have SMART Boards, Chromebook laptops, iPads and Teacher Websites to refer to. As of July 2017, there are 57 percent of teachers who often use interactive whiteboards for instruction. Mrs. A said almost every classroom has a SMART Board and desktop computer for teachers. The school is still in the process of updating SMART Boards to make sure they are using the most current technology. Starting this year, every grade has a form a personal technology that they can keep until they graduate Elementary School. Kindergarten through third grade get to keep an iPad and the fourth and fifth-grade students get their own chrome book. What I found fascinating is that the students get to keep these chrome books or iPads in their desk and are held accountable for it. Once they graduate Elementary School they will most likely receive another Chrome book or iPad to keep throughout middle school. To accommodate students who do not have technology at home, some students are able to take these chrome books home and complete on academic work.

For example, students who learn better by listening can understand more fully with audio and videos shown on the board. (Bell ) For visual learners, students can watch as the lesson develops across the board. Research has shown that students of all ages respond well to interactive white boards. With everyone loving the boards so much, students will jump at every chance to use the board. Interactive Whiteboards make kids want to learn. It makes them more willing to listen and focus on the lesson. Fifty years ago, classrooms didn’t have this kind of technology. Classrooms only had black boards or white boards. (Bell )