Testimonials
From the Experts
We believe there are substantial results... which will prove how interactive technology can act as a catalyst and thus make a real difference to the future education of our children.
| Christina Preston, MirandaNet |
"From my first demonstration, it was evident that Promethean’s focus was enhancing learning in the classroom and was genuinely driven by responding to the needs and suggestions of teachers."
| Maureen Haldane, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK |
"This is a must for every classroom. This is the chalkboard of the new century and if utilized, test scores will improve in California."
| Mario Guerrero, Selma USD, California, USA |
"The Activclassroom system will become the mainstream media and technology of integration between information technology and the curriculum in classrooms in the future."
| Professor Xingfu Ding, Beijing Academy of Educational Sciences, Capital Normal University, China |
"Because the learning and educational revolution in our schools is no longer blackboard and chalk, it is computers and electronic whiteboards, I can also announce that over our three year program on spending on IT, capital will now be raised to $2.108 billion."
| Gordon Brown, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, Budget speech, 16 March 2005 |
85% of 550 school teachers surveyed judged ‘interactive whiteboards’ to be ‘important’ or ‘very important’ in terms of their impact on student learning and development of knowledge. 95.6% concluded they would have an ‘important’ or ‘very important’ impact on the motivation of pupils.
| Online survey commissioned by the French Ministry of Education, 2005 |
From the Teachers
"What we didn’t realize before working with Promethean was that technology existed which could bring a whole classroom alive."
| Dave Shield, Deputy Head, Parkside Secondary School, Willington, UK |
"I have seen superb lessons in history. For example, where the teacher is looking at the conflict in Vietnam using video, newsreel, sound commentary and graphic clips. One almost felt as though you were part of the whole period."
| Alan Sankey, Deputy Principal, West Island School, Hong Kong |
"The response from students and teachers has been overwhelming! I’ve seen the class average come up and I can see a noticeable increase in student motivation, participation and time spent on task."
| Gena Barnhardt, AP biology teacher, Hickory High School, North Carolina, USA |
"To be an effective teacher you need to put that outside time in. What’s nice is that I can come into school Monday morning and know that my math lesson for the week or my reading lesson for the week is on that computer and I just pull it up instead of - do I have to cut this out... or make this... or work on this... or run this off?"
| Kristen Italiano, 3rd Grade Teacher, Eagle Heights Academy, Ohio, USA |
"I would not work in a school that did not have interactive whiteboards - it would be like going back to the Stone Age."
| Richard Clarke, Head of ICT, The British International Primary School, Stockholm, Sweden |
"Children who have such a hard time staying on task... when you turn it on... you got ‘em."
| Katrina English, EIP Teacher, Upson-Lee South Elementary School, Georgia, USA |