QuickTime™ e undecompressore TIFF (LZW)

sono necessari per visualizzare quest'immagine.

Introducing interactive

whiteboards in the schools: an experience report

Marco Ronchetti, Benjamin DandoyUniversità degli Studi di Trento,

Informatica Trentina SpA

Interactive Whiteboards (IAW): what are they?

Intro

The overall project

Trentino (Trento province, Italy)400'000 people

70'000 students (School only)

7'000 teachers

3'000 classes

Intro

The overall project

Target: a whiteboard per class (6 M€)

2006/7: 225 whiteboards (7.5%)

2007/8: 225 whiteboards

Intro

Any problem?

Intro

Any problem?

Intro

The SLIM4DIDA project

Try to Introduce Guide Help Sustain Create (a) community(ies) Reuse Scale

The project

Structure of our project

5 high schools and 2 so-called “comprehensive institutes” composed by primary schools (grades 1 to 5) and middle schools (grades 6 to 8)

4 in town, 3 in the valleys

57 teachers over a three months period

The project

Structure of our project

4 meetings: General introduction Technical introduction Pedagogical issues Focus group + questionnaire

Support actions Production of learning material Set up a wiki

The project

Teacher perception: positive aspects

Support for handicapped students

Time saving in certain activities

Fascination of the tool

Complementary aspects with respect to a multimedia classroom

OUTCOME

Teacher perception: negative aspects

Induced laziness

Time lost for problems or setup

Time needed to prepare material

Doubts about the suitability of the tool to certain disciplines and age ranges

Precision and naturalness of the virtual writing not fully satisfactory

OUTCOME

Problems and issues

installation of the devices Placement of the devices Perception of the tool How to facilitate the transition to more partecipatory

teaching/learning? Notion of learning object NIH syndrome White paper syndrome Expectations/results mismatch

OUTCOME

Hurdles

Teachers are busy people!

Community startup

Fear of lack of timely and efficient support

Archival/retrieval

Finding the ways to recognize and remunerate any extra work

OUTCOME

Conclusions

Is the IWB the magic tool described by the vendors and by some literature?

The strong point is bringing Internet and the PC in the middle of the class

It does not happen magically…

The process needs to be driven