DEJ #2 Web 2.0 and Emerging Learning Technologies/Learning Styles

Quote: “For example, the English teachers can use the smart board to help the kinesthetic students to learn vocabulary. English teachers can write words or sentences and the students can edit them (School District of Waukesha, n.d.).Moreover, the smart board can help the auditory learners to learn a word's spelling by adding the word's pronunciation in the lesson. By listening to the words, the students should write what they listen to on the smart board.  Finally, the visual learners can learn better with smart board by using the electronic pens to draw or put some lines, shapes, and pictures.”

Response: Smart boards started to become very popular in the classrooms during my elementary school years, about 12 years ago.  I think that they are genius!  Smart boards are basically like a big touch screen in the front of the class that allows you to navigate throughout your computer through the screen (so you don’t have to be at your computer).  They are huge therefore everyone in the classroom can see them. The quote above tells it all; smart boards are good for any type of learner.  They allow students to actually get involved and teachers can do many different things when using them.  Overall, every classroom should have a smart board because it is easy to use and everyone in class can benefit.


Reference: Web 2.0 and Emerging Learning Technologies/Learning Styles. (2011, May 19). In WikiBooks. Retrieved January 29, 2012, from http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Web_2.0_and_Emerging_Learning_Technologies/Learning_Styles


Related Resource:  The video below gives the teachers prospective on using smart boards and also goes over all of the features of a smart board.