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Promethean works with external partners and experts to produce white papers, providing definitive position statements on specific issue areas.

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    How does Promethean help students with special needs? The Activclassroom assists in inclusion of special needs students by providing flexible ways to access and display lesson content, opportunities for active student participation in complex interactive activities, and engaging ways to obtain immediate feedback. ALL Activclassroom (Activstudio & Activprimary) lessons and resources can be used with exceptional children, as they all need to learn the same things as other children, but in a different way. By providing resources for multisensory learning, our solution addresses visual, auditory and kinesthetic learners.
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    Educators have for many years looked at computer technology as a potential source for meeting the learning needs of English Language Learners. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, a behaviorist model for computer-based instruction existed in which language instruction was introduced in the form of drill and practice. During the 1980s and 1990s, the focus shifted to the cognitive and language proficiency needs of ELLs in which content-based teaching became a widely accepted means of teaching English (Butler-Pascoe & Wiburg, 2003). Today's technology-based instruction emphasizes students constructing meaning based on a high degree of interactivity among students, between students and curriculum, and between students and teacher. An emerging class of technology that offers enormous potential in generating these interactions is interactive whiteboards or IWBs. The purpose of this paper is to examine the potential of IWB technology in lighting the flame of learning for English Language Learners.