Greetings,
I am Eliza Bang, the teacher in the picture and quoted in the article. I wish the journalist would have included all of my quotes in this article--especially something along the lines of, "The best arguement for having a SMART board in the classroom is the variety and flexibility of mediums which it allows for me to present, and for students to represent their learning...which is why it is a great motivation for learning."
I wasn't crazy about the fact that my quote stated motivation as the reason I liked having a SMARTboard in my classroom without explaining why. In short, it is easy to engage and excite my students when they have many degrees of freedom to show their work (research, expression, etc.). We are a school with a diverse learning population, and the flexibility and control they feel over their learning is a great motivator.
While I do not think a tool like this is absolutely critical for teaching, it is a wonderful resource. The flexible representations of learning could still happen without the SMARTboard, but it certainly helps!
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Greetings,
I am Eliza Bang, the teacher in the picture and quoted in the article. I wish the journalist would have included all of my quotes in this article--especially something along the lines of, "The best arguement for having a SMART board in the classroom is the variety and flexibility of mediums which it allows for me to present, and for students to represent their learning...which is why it is a great motivation for learning."
I wasn't crazy about the fact that my quote stated motivation as the reason I liked having a SMARTboard in my classroom without explaining why. In short, it is easy to engage and excite my students when they have many degrees of freedom to show their work (research, expression, etc.). We are a school with a diverse learning population, and the flexibility and control they feel over their learning is a great motivator.
While I do not think a tool like this is absolutely critical for teaching, it is a wonderful resource. The flexible representations of learning could still happen without the SMARTboard, but it certainly helps!
Thanks for listening...