New London Academy

SMART board

The SMART board is the new blackboard! Technology is such a huge part of our everyday life now and we need to incorporate this into our teaching and learning. The SMART board allows teachers and students to access and display websites, run educational software, highlight and review notes from a class discussion, deliver Power Point presentations and much more. This board is touch sensitive and interactive. It provides the ability to show and do rather than just tell.

Ms. Parrish knows that when students are actively engaged in a lesson, they are more motivated to learn. Increased engagement and motivation will result in increased learning. Because students are used to interacting with technology at home through computer and video games, it has become more and more challenging to keep them engaged in the classroom. The use of interactive whiteboards is an effective way of utilizing the latest technology to engage students in lessons that are presented in a familiar format.