Can interactive whiteboards impair learning?

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I totally agree!

I have also just started college (Brockenhurst College, UK)
and I have found the same thing. It was also the same at
my old school too.

A teacher enters the room with their ancient laptop that
takes 3 minutes to boot, then spends another 5 minutes
doing the orientation and finding the right notes file to
show you.

After this prolonged process, they write a few lines on to
the board, set you some work and shutdown their
computer.

What was all the fuss for?

I have only had 1 teacher that used it correctly. He had
everything set-up quickly, used it for all his notes and
then emailed the notes home to students for revision. It
was brilliant, but he was the exception. The rest of the
teachers could hardly even switch the damn thing on, but
still wasted half an hour setting it up.

I long for the return of the old whiteboard.

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