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Interactive Whiteboards

These boards allow educators to display images, movies, presentations, from a computer screen. These boards are also interactive and allow educators and students to manipulate the images on the board using a finger or a stylus tool.

These smart boards help create more interactive learning experiences that help increase student performance and create a more engaging lesson plan. Secondary school students are used to mobile devices and touch screen technology. Interactive whiteboards help engage these students in ways that are more familiar to them.

Since it uses an Internet connection, interactive whiteboards can display any content that can be found on the Internet, opening up the potential education possibilities to the vast depth of the Internet.

Assistive Learning Technologies

One of the most important ways technology can be used in the classroom is to open up learning experiences for students who have a disability. Alternative input devices allow students with disabilities to use the same technologies as their peers. There are many different examples of assistive technology in use in the classroom, but a few of the more popular ones include:

Cloud Technology

The cloud means that homework assignments, educational resources, and other learning materials can be accessed from any device with an Internet connection. Students no longer have to worry about carrying heavy textbooks and other educational materials around with them.

Student performance is aided by the ability to quickly and easily access all learning materials from a mobile device, tablet, or computer. Cloud technology removes the boundaries students used to face.

I'm already familiar with these technology. In particular, I remember when my primary school first got an interactive whiteboard, it made learning so much more fun, whether we were watching films or playing educational games.


Future:

It’s 2050 and schools look like…

Brain-computer Interfaces:

Many BCI devices offer simple uses to boost productivity. For example, there are now wearables, like headphones or small headsets tracking productivity throughout the day to examine when we work best.