During our meet and greet with parents at our opening, many parents were curious as to why we chose to use a SMART Board. Well, here are 7 reasons why:
1. The SMART Board provides teachers and students with a whole new interactive learning environment to share ideas, information, images, animations, audio or video.
2. Learning is much more powerful if it is multimodal and the SMART Board supports several different learning styles - visual-spatial, auditory and kinaesthetic.
3. Students are highly motivated when content is presented on a SMART Board.
4. It increases their enjoyment by being physically involved touching and moving objects and by the size of the screen which makes images large enough for everyone to see.
5. The engagement and knowledge building of young children is fostered when they are given the opportunity to interact in a physical and mental way in the learning environment.
6. Children's excitement in demonstrating a skill or 'operating' the SMART Board boosts their self-esteem and builds confidence in science and technology and aids them to work independently at a later time.
7. The collaborative nature of using the SMART Board in the learning environment, where the teacher and students are grouped in front of the board engaging in an activity is highly effective for whole group instruction, active discussion and questioning.
Naturally, what they've learned from the SMART Board could be made more powerful if they're followed with hands-on experiments and activities. However, in the absence of materials and the constrain of time, SMART Board learning on its own would have sufficed.
So, we say "why not?"
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