Interactive Whiteboard Lesson

Preliminary viewing: How IWBs may be used most effectively in a primary classroom

• When IWB is used to engage children’s learning and participation, involve their senses through different medium like video, sound, games and use IWB to fulfil their desire to move about while learning;
• Use the presentation / slides to create a pace for the lesson, includes graphics and pictures to grab children’s attention and interest;
• Use technology as a platform to help children to make links and connection to their daily life and learning environment;
• Learning through play and discovery, effective use of IWB may increase children’s observation and interest on how technology can be used differently and possibly raise their willingness to have a go and find out for themselves.

Practical task: create IWB resources to teach a topic

Together with a partner, we created two slides for children to explore science, animal classification and habitat.

Target group: reception class

Learning outcome: 1. children to match animals with correct names

2. children to identify animals that live on land and in the sea

We incorporated new techniques and resources learnt in the lectures, made memory bingo, created website links, music clip on the slide, insert boxes with commands i.e. accept and reject choices, etc.

[embeddoc url=”https://eportfolios.roehampton.ac.uk/leic/files/2016/09/ICT-Science-Activity-1f3n856.notebook” download=”logged” viewer=”google”]Reflection:

• As I discovered different ways of using IWB, I can create slides that will make good starter activity that will help children to tap into their existing knowledge and experience, and use IWB as a way to help children to relate to new topics and to sustain interests.
• To make learning fun, creative and interactive, games and programme can be introduced to the lesson on IWB, to help to move children’s learning in an active way, to increase attention while playing and encourage children’s communication skills as they collaborate and work together to solve problem/game on the IWB.
• For a writing task for example, use sound clip, visual picture and incorporate it onto IWB, to use them as a tool and prompt for children to link previous learning, as well as arousing their senses to help children to gather thoughts, ideas and imagination for writing purpose.