An Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) is a flat white board which is highly responsive to human touch or other controls that we prefer to connect. Normally when people are more than 10 it needs a connection with a projector to make the screen big and clearly visible to everyone.
Interactive Whiteboards have improved and gained a lot of importance in today's world since it launch in the nineties. They are also called as Smart boards as a company known as SMART Technologies holds major credit on creating them. Since then IWB resources are used not only in schools and educational institutes but they also widely used in different organisations for board meetings, presentations etc.
The Smart boards picked up quite well in the Classrooms to make them more interactive, interesting and fun. Students started enjoying the big precise images, pictures, videos wherever necessary, games, quizzes and many more. Student concentrations levels improved and also the attendance at the same time. The technology was seen more accepted by United States of America and United Kingdom than any other countries in the world. Today you would rarely find a school or institute which doesn't use the IWBs.
Since the launch of these Whiteboards, a lot of research has been done across students belonging to different regions and different age groups to know the benefits of the Smart boards. Majority of the studies and research show that they has made a positive impact and improved the teaching standards. They have encouraged students to improve self thinking and use ideas in their own presentations. The major benefit seen was the involvement of the entire class as compared to a particular set of students seen in the past.
The knowledge and need of adopting IWBs has grown globally due to all the benefits that it has displayed and also because of the confidence it has given about having more interactive sessions.
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