Interactive Whiteboards

An interactive whiteboard can transform the way teachers differentiate and the way students experience learning in the classroom. When connected to a computer or tablet, a whiteboard becomes a large interactive screen that can be manipulated by a finger, pen, or other device. Students and teachers alike are actively involved as viewers and presenters of an on-screen material.

Interactive whiteboards provide a flexible format for activating multiple intelligences of learners, identified by psychologist Howard Gardner (2011). Viewing large size material on the whiteboard focusses on visual/spatial intelligence, hearing material read aloud supports linguistic intelligence, and being able to manipulate images and solve problems with one's on fingers and hands engages students bodily-kinaesthetic and logical mathematical intelligences. Adding music, rhythm, and sound stimulated musical intelligence while letting students work in groups at the whiteboard uses interpersonal intelligence and interpersonal skills. 

Apps such as Doceri and AirServer let you move around the classroom with your tablet connected wirelessly to a whiteboard, projector, or HDTV. One high school teacher candidate described how with this app she changed the learning dynamics in the room: "I can navigate through slides and display them from anywhere in the room, and students can add to my presentation by writing and drawing on the tablet as well."

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