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Using the Interactive White Board in Teaching and Learning – An Evaluation…

- - - - Learner Perspectives
        
        Attitudes towards Learning
        
        Numerous studies have shown that use of IWBs improves learning processes, specifically where the integration between the teacher’s instruction style and the IWBs’ potential enables meaningful instruction, Students reported that the use of the IWB enhances motivation to learn, raises the level of concentration, improves behavior, and enhances learning because it is “fun” and innovative, Various studies have shown that students who learned with the IWB were more attentive and engaged in learning, participated more actively in the class-room, and interacted much more with their teachers, their peers, and even with the IWB.
        
        Developing 21st Century Thinking and Learning Skills
        
        An expected long-term outcome of smart classrooms in general and IWBs in particular, is their use to develop thinking and learning skills that are appropriate for the 21st century. As Melamed and Salant (2010) note in their literature review on the topic of integrating technology into educa-tional systems around the world
        
        The five central skills were as follows: 1.Information skills (literacy): Skills that relate to the ability to gather, edit, analyze, proc-ess, and connect information. 2.Higher order thinking skills: In particular, problem solving, critical thinking, and creative and entrepreneurial thinking. 3.Communication and cooperation skills: The ability to work in a team, and to belong to various communities. 4.Skills to use technological tools, despite the feeling that young people know how to do this. 5.Learning skills: In particular, the development of autonomous learning.
        
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