Transforming teaching through the use of interactive whiteboards |
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| Interactive white board (IWB) technology has become quite popular within our schools. In Alberta, a concerted effort has been made to provide these tools in every classroom. Although these tools are quite useful for teaching and learning, some estimate that at least 50% of all IWB's worldwide are used as glorified projection screens. Knowing this, it is very important that these tools are not just purchased, installed, and left for teachers to figure out on their own. I offered to facilitate a learning team (action research) for a group of seven K-5 teachers who received several IWB's for the classrooms. This session will lead you through their journey, share their research questions and some of their project work, some of their raw honest thinking about this journey, and their conclusions of how the IWB's supported and to what degree, their teaching practice and their students learning. I will also share a few tools that we used to collaborate through-out the process. One key success factor is the collaborative action research learning team approach in supporting teachers in fearlessly learning new ways of supporting their classrooms. | |
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Audience: Elementary (K-7) |
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| Room: | B 212 |
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Brian Kuhn Coquitlam, BC Brian began life after university as a software developer in private practice and working for Fisheries and Oceans Canada in 1984, then in 1991 as the IT Coordinator for School District 68 (Nanaimo-Ladysmith). Having been with School District 43 (Coquitlam) since 2001 as their Manager of Information Services, Brian has had the privilege of initiating and leading a number of exciting ventures including the my43 project, designed to transform the learning and work in SD43. my43 includes a District Intranet, School Portals, Virtual Classrooms, my sites, and school and teacher web sites. This past year Brian had the privilege of facilitating two learning teams (action research), one for elementary teachers focussed on adapting their practice to incorporate interactive white boards and the other with principals wanting to incorporate the use of digital tools and services in their work practices. He is currently overseeing the implementation of unified communications and designing a District private fiber network project. bkuhn@sd43.bc.ca |
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