Interactive White boards are a wonderful addition to the classroom. Interactive White boards, I feel help the students learn by doing. The students are also more engaged in the lesson. They don't just sit and listen anymore they have to follow along and recognize what it is the teacher is asking them.
At first the technology is frustrating like all new programs that are presented to you without prior knowledge. Though, once I became familiar with the program and the different applications I began to feel comfortable with the program.
There are many pros in using interactive white boards one of which the students get a hands on experience in learning and understanding new material. I also feel students in todays world feel the need to be stimulated at all times, especially with technology today. Students want to watch something, they want to interact with something technical because they are familiar with technology and understand how to learn from it. Some cons are technology sometimes does not cooperate and does not work at times and can through your whole lesson off, because of one glitch. Also you have to think about the students you want to create lesson that are both interactive for you and your class. If you fail to remember that, your students will be bored and unenthusiastic about your lesson.
I could incorporate many lesson plans in to the Interactive smart board. We can learn about artists and then virtually visit museums and see the paintings or sculptures. Teaching brush strokes and showing students what kinda of brush mark Vincent Van Gogh used in his "Starry Night" or "Self portrait". I could also teach perspective and use the rulers and have the students create depth and three dimensional forms on the white board,
