Seeing the meaning.

Cuthell, J.P.,(2005), Seeing the meaning: The impact of interactive whiteboards on teaching and learning. BECTA. Retrieved September, 3, 2010 from http://www.virtuallearning.org.uk/whiteboards/index/html

This article by John Cuthell looks at the effects of Interactive whiteboards (IWB's) on the way students learn and the pedagogical implications of this technology. The idea of the study was to affirm that IWB's were being used as part of the suite of ICT tools and they were meeting the objectives of the schools. This study was a follow up to a (Becta, 2000) study that found schools with better ICT resources had better grades in english, maths, and science. The author uses research collated by himself over the last four years of working with educators along with research conducted by action programs looking at five schools across the UK on the implementation of IWB's as well as a range of international studies.The findings of this paper were not totally conclusive however it did suggest that these boards had great value in presenting information to students in new ways with differing learning styles. Students found that this technology had a ludic or fun element to it and that more of the lesson could be taken in with lessons providing powerpoint presentations.  Teachers from a constructivist approach tend to gravitate to this technology however only 35% of teachers are using IWB's on a regular basis. This article has been beneficial to my research as it has confirmed alot of the claims of the previous article however this article is from a more netural point of view.