IWB and RE

Monday 3 July 2006 AREIAC Conference

Marriot Hotel, PeterboroughZoe Chappell

IWBs can

Transform learning, creating new learning styles stimulated by interaction with the whiteboard.

Glover and Miller (2001)

IWB Research Findings Becta Findings

Engages children to a greater extent than conventional teaching increasing enjoyment and motivation.

Facilitates participation through the ability to interact with materials on the board.

Enables creativity when preparing presentations for teachers and peers.

Ask and answer questions to promote knowledge and understanding.

Planning has the potential to be improved – software enables lessons to be saved and reused with refinement, saving on lesson preparation time in the future.

Drag and Drop

Matching Labelling Grouping Gap Filling Ordering Effective in starters and plenaries

Recording!

Children can record their voices Add sound clips to presentations Record interviews with people Record reading of prayers and for

example the Guru Granth Sahib.

CD ROMs

CD ROMs can be used interactively on a whiteboard so that the whole class can participate before letting individuals explore the software e.g. Birchfield Software

CD-ROMS

Birchfield Interactive 0845 676 2222 Ace Monkey ‘s Celebrations KS1 Places of Worship – Christianity Places of Worship – Islam Places of Worship – Judaism

Help yourself to a brochure if you’d like.

Annotating Encourages spontaneity and flexibility,

allowing teachers to draw on and annotate a wide range of web based resources (Ken Newell 2001)

Enable teachers to save and print what is on the board, including any notes made during the lesson. (Walker 2002)

Reduces the need for note taking among pupils (Becta 2003)

Virtual Tours

Produce own virtual tour – put into notebook. Involve children in this – very motivating for a visit’s follow up activity.

Internet

Internet used interactively to demonstrate searches but there are benefits of capturing information into the IWB Software.

PowerPoint Presentations

Can support delivery of a lesson on any IWB

Children can use to present their research

www.primaryresources.co.uk has example presentations.

Use IWB to present these.

Other ideas

Interactive quizzes (Lynx Software – similar to Who wants to be a millionaire)

Google Earth (e.g. Taking the children on an interactive journey to Mecca/Medina/Jerusalem/Lourdes etc)

Hide and reveal – Guess the picture/vocabulary definition

Spotlight – focus on an area of the slide

Scan a page of text book showing a large version of a page that can be annotated and highlighted (University of Hull 2004)

ICT should be used to

Support the achievement of RE learning objectives set by the teacher for pupils

Improve the quality and enjoyment of teaching and learning

Add value to the learning process Make planning and teaching more

effective

Contribute to pupils’ understanding of ICT

(Becta Using ICT in RE June 2000)

Enrich dialogue between children and between children and adults working in the classroom not be a substitute

Maximising the impact of IWB Investing time in training so that teachers

become confident users. Explore the full range of the IWB software. Share resources with others – email

networks. Not just for teachers to use but children

too. Effective technical support and high

reliability of make of board. (Becta 2004)

Useful Contacts www.becta.org.uk Millburn Hill Rd, Science Park, Coventry,

CV4 7JJ www.birchfield.co.uk CD ROMs schools.becta.org.uk Links to other sites

that support the use of ICT in schools and case studies of using ICT in RE

www.vtc.ngfl.gov.uk Examples of use of ICT in RE

www.tre.ngfl.gov.uk Teacher Resource Exchange