Tecnologias e Aprendizado Palestrante: Omar López - CICI2011

1. Best Practices for Learning Improvement
Using Interactive Whiteboard Technology
Educating Cities Seminar
Curitiba, Brazil
May 18, 2011
Omar S. López, Ph.D.
Texas State University

2. IWB Best Practices for Learning Improvement
Overview
 Technology and learning: primary goals
 Five principles of effective instructional practice
 Best practices for implementing interactive
whiteboard technology for learning improvement

3. IWB Best Practices for Learning Improvement
Technology and Learning:
Primary Goals
 The extent that technology is able to help students
learn more curriculum in the same unit of time than
students without technology.
 The extent that technology is able to help students
learn a given unit of curriculum in less time than
students without technology.

4. IWB Best Practices for Learning Improvement
Five Principles of Effective Instructional Practice*
 Students’ learning builds on their previous experiences.
 Students’ learning takes place best in a social setting.
 Knowledge taught in a variety of contexts is more likely to support
learning across students with diverse learning needs.
 Connected, organized and relevant information supports students
learning of knowledge but also helps them develop higher-order
thinking skills.
 Feedback and active evaluation of learning furthers students’
understanding and skill development.
*National Research Council (2000). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School.
Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

5. IWB Best Practices for Learning Improvement
Best practices for implementing interactive
whiteboard technology for learning
improvement
López, O. S. (2010), The Digital Learning Classroom: Improving
Reading using Interactive Whiteboard Technology. Computers &
Education, 54(4), 901 915.

6. IWB Best Practices for Learning Improvement
Best practices for implementing interactive
whiteboard technology for learning
improvement: Insight 1
Innovative technologies like the IWB must be introduced as a
disruptive innovation, not by using it to directly compete with the
teachers’ current curriculum and instructional practices, but by
letting it initially compete against teachers’ ‘‘non-consumption”
areas where the alternative is nothing at all.

7. IWB Best Practices for Learning Improvement
Best practices for implementing interactive
whiteboard technology for learning
improvement: Insight 2
Digital Learning Classroom promotes a learner-centered
pedagogy where both teacher and ELL students are learners,
which allows them to jointly produce a harvest of common
themes and shared meanings.

8. IWB Best Practices for Learning Improvement
Best practices for implementing interactive
whiteboard technology for learning
improvement: Insight 3
In spite of the promising findings shown in the study, the Digital
Learning Classroom is not a ‘‘silver bullet” for improving ELL student
academic success. The Digital Learning Classroom cannot
transform an average teacher into a master teacher, anymore than
an electronic word processor can magically transform the typical
clerical office worker into a Pulitzer Prize-winning author.

9. IWB Best Practices for Learning Improvement
Best practices for implementing interactive
whiteboard technology for learning
improvement: Insight 4
What teachers do in the classroom is important—how they do
it makes the difference in ELL students’ academic success.

10. IWB Best Practices for Learning Improvement
Best practices for implementing interactive
whiteboard technology for learning
improvement: Insight 5
The teachers’ success with ELL students did not happen in a
vacuum—it was facilitated through the intervention of a
curriculum specialist assigned to the Digital Learning Classroom
project by the district’s director of ELL students.
…The curriculum specialist’s value to the teachers’ success in
the Digital Learning Classroom project: Priceless.

11. IWB Best Practices for Learning Improvement
Inquires regarding the content of this presentation
can be directed to:
Omar S. López, Ph.D., Assistant Professor
1555 University Blvd., Suite 464O
Round Rock, Texas 78665
(512) 341-0351
ol14@txstate.edu