The Top Ten Reasons Why We LOVE our Smartboard!

Last year our school was very lucky to recieve Smartboards through a technology grant funded by the federal government.  Words cannot describe how the smartboards have enhanced the learning process and aided me in reaching the variety of learning styles within my classroom.  And best of all, the kids love it!  Here are ten reasons why we love having a smartboard in our classroom.  Feel free to stop in and play around with it,  your child would love to be your teacher!

10. The smartboard is a colorful and interactive hands-on tool. Research indicates that students respond to displays where color is employed and learn most by doing.

9. Anything you can do on a computer, you can do on the smartboard!  Your hand acts as the mouse.  This means the possibilities of what we can do together as a large group is endless!

8. The smartboard is neat.  You write with a computerized pen, and erase with a marker.  Check out this video of Julia demonstrating a math problem on the whiteboard.

7.  It is almost indestructible!  One of our sight word review games lets the children actually throw balls at the board to reveal the answers.

6. The smartboard creates the teachers lesson a two-sided experience.  Instead of just listening to the teacher talk, the students are up, moving and interacting with the concepts through the board.  Below is an example of some students showing their classmates how to make .64 cents.

5. Through a website called smart exchange, the teacher is offered thousands of interactive lessons that meet the K-12 standards across all subjects.  Talk about optomizing a students experience in the classroom!

4. This thing is a kid magnet.  It is not rare for every hand to shoot up in the room when asked for a volunteer to demonstrate a concept on the board.

3. SMARTboards are becoming the classroom of tommorow.  While textbooks have to be replaced, the SMARTboards can be continually updated to change with time.

2. New research shows that kids learn more through animation, something the smartboard is full of!

1.  Smartboards help get kids excited about learning! The games and activities available are endless.