"Interactive Quite Bored"

Duneney, G. (2006). Interactive quite bored. IATEFL Call Review summer 2006. Retreived September 4, 2010, From http://associates.iatefl.org/pages/materials/itskills25.pdf

This article by Gavin Dudeney is a pragmatic look at Interactive whiteboards (IWB)'s and the economic viability to this technology. The author asks the question, that whilst this technology is useful and quite impressive, is it really fesiable to roll this technology out to the world wide educational community. Dudeney list two major problems with IWB's, That being materials and cost. The materials are such things as converting all our text books two IWB software, as well as the fact that teachers can become straight jacketed by them and slip into just presenting a presentation and forget to interact with their learners. And like all technologies they all lose there wow factor after a while. On the finance side Dudeney says that it is no good just getting one of these things that to get the critical mass needed so things like teacher training is worthwhile the average school wil need to buy 5 or 6 IWB's, and not all schools have 40k lying around. In this article Dudeney makes some good points that add another side to this issue, a worthwhile article indeed.