B. Developing 21st Century Thinking and Learning Skills
One expected long-term outcome of smart classrooms in general, and electronic tablets in particular, is their use to develop thinking and learning skills appropriate for the 21st century.
The five central skills:
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.
C. The Relationship between Use of IWBs and Student Achievement positively influences students' ability to understand complex concepts, for example, in mathematics and science. Similarly, teachers claim that the multifaceted technological presentation (which engages several senses: sight, hearing and sometimes even touch, when the student approaches the board) helps students who have difficulty developing mental images of complicated concepts.