Gone are the days of the blackboard and chalk, condemned to the educational archives of the past forever. The first to push this combination from its throne was the whiteboard and marker. Now we have a new king and it is all part of touch screen learning.
The star of the show in many recent education exhibitions is the new cutting edge generation whiteboard. This one does not require a market either. Just a finger or two will do fine. It is amazing what you can do by just putting a finger on a whiteboard these days.
The latest touch screen whiteboard technology even allows you to find a landmark through an internet map system and zoom in on that spot. You may enlarge it to see detail or turn and tilt it to see what it looks like from any angle. This is not all. Objects can also be moved from one position on a screen to another. This means that if you do a lecture for instance about a certain building in another country from where you are, you can actually take your audience into that building. By changing angles you can walk them through rooms and around corners and highlight objects along the way. Designs can be explored in fine 3D detail without having to do a single drawing.
It is like having a movie and white board in one. The images are displayed on the board, acting as a screen that can be touched to manipulate images. Imagine giving your students the opportunity to explore buildings or cities on their own and maybe find certain landmarks. The can broaden their horizons by going into a ship or cave without leaving the classroom and feel they are there, inside the big picture on the board. According to one user at a recent education expo this technology is a dream to use. There is also a connection between the whiteboard and the teacher's computer
Participation by more than one student on a single touch screen whiteboard is another new development. The students can do two completely different tasks at the same time on the same whiteboard. They can even concentrate on two aspects of the same project to reveal the complete picture at the end.
It is difficult to pin a date on when exactly the use of technology found its way into a classroom. Maybe caveman drawings were part of an educational setup where younger members of the tribe were taught through the use of drawings. An interesting development came in the 1920s with Sidney Pressey's mechanical teaching machine. This machine was a device where multiple choice questions could be answered by pressing keys instead of pen and paper.
Slide and movie shows found their way into the classroom. This was at a time when the idea that people can learn through aural and visual reception started to gain ground. Educational experts and later software and hardware developers built on that principle. Electronics ways to assist in the teaching process became more sophisticated. In the last few years these developed in leaps and bounds.
One thing is clear. Touch screen learning is huge. It is here to stay. Experts believe tablets, working very much along the lines of the touch screen whiteboard are not far away. Technology is coming ever closer to creating the ultimate classroom.
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