£50million spent on IWBS?

In today's Daily Mail it reports that 'academics' claim the £50million spent on equiping classroom with interactive whiteboards has been a waste of money!

It says that 'pupils have been reduced to spectators as teachers produced faster and more complicated electronic displays.'

Well I think it's fair to say that whoever these academics are haven't got a clue about being a teacher! Althought one or two were a little frightened at first, all the teachers in our school love using their IWBs. Now Idon't think there's one that likes to spend hours on creating complicated electronic displays! I am confident that every one of us uses the IWB as a teaching tool like any other.

Perhaps the problem is that LEAs and the Primary Strategy are giving teachers so many 'wonderful' examples that they feel under pressure to prepare that is just as good.

Teachers should, of course, try to use the new exciting features of their IWBs to teach the children but I'm sure teachers want to teach first and 'show off' their new IWB skills second. I think it's unfair to say that they are a waste of money.

Having said all this, I still use my regular whiteboard all the time and would feel lost without it!!