Author: Dr Miriam Judge Dublin City University The main purpose of this research was to discover (a) what benefits Interactive Whiteboards brought to the teaching and learning environment in terms of their impact on both teachers and students, and (b) how closely the experience of Irish teachers with this relatively new technology matched those of their UK counterparts who were early adopters of IWB technology as a result of national policy initiatives to support the widespread implementation of IWB’s in UK schools.

Author: Philippa Levy, Department of Information Studies (DIS), University of Sheffield This is the final report of a small-scale study that focused on the introduction of Interactive Whiteboard technology into classroom teaching in two Sheffield secondary schools.

Authors: Steve Kennewell and Alex Morgan, University of Wales, Swansea. Students pursuing a one-year postgraduate teacher education course are required to make rapid changes in their ideas about teaching and learning during their preparation to be elementary teachers. This is particularly necessary in the case of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This paper focuses on one particular aspect of ICT in the classroom: the interactive whiteboard. It examines student teachers’ reports of provision and use in placement schools and analyses their responses to attitude surveys. It also compares attitudes between groups of student teachers working with early years and upper primary classes.