The Mobi View from eInstruction isn’t exactly an interactive ­whiteboard — and that’s the point. The tabletlike device ­allows teachers to interact with and annotate digital content in the classroom ...

Do interactive whiteboards lead to achievement gains? Does any specific technology? Whiteboards impressed me as little more than glorified slates back when I'd first learned of them--nice tools for ...

As a school based technology specialist, I’m sometimes asked what I think of interactive whiteboards. Should we spend the couple of thousand dollars to buy some? Do they help students learn? Do they ...

Anne Rawland Gabriel is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology. She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. Like many middle schoolers, Josh Hancock ...

Sharon Padget remembers a time when her high school science students drew out concept maps by hand, on paper. The exercise--which found pupils drawing diagrams illustrating the relationships among ...

Students hop out of their seats during Lonnise Gilley’s lessons as they compete to solve a geometry problem or compare the sides of color-coded shapes on the board in front of the class. As Gilley ...

Nothing symbolises the "digital divide" quite as much as the interactive whiteboard, or IWB. The divide is not just a gulf between the "haves" and the "have nots"; it is an ideological disagreement.

Ann Leaness is an English teacher at the Franklin Learning Center in Center City, Philadelphia, and an adjunct professor at Neumann University. She is also a board member of the Edcamp Foundation.

It’s shaping up as a technological battle royale, but the fight between electronic whiteboards and projectors could determine how a generation of college students are taught. Think of the conflict as ...