Interactive Whiteboard and RAT Model
"An interactive whiteboard is a digital device that allows users to project files and manipulate them on a board's surface (2019)." The whiteboard acts as a projector screen but allows users to write on it and move or rearrange the information projected on the board. Modern-day boards appear to resemble large flat-screen T.V.s. The interactive whiteboards require another source to provide displayed materials, such as a computer or projector. The boards also need special pens and erasers to write on the screen, but users may use their hands or a pointer to rearrange or move objects. Below is a video on the advantages and disadvantages of using an interactive whiteboard.
- Tens frame
- Traditional Whiteboard: A teacher can draw a tens frame and color it in dots to represent the number. Then erase and begin again for each problem they want to demonstrate to their students.
- Interactive Whiteboard: A teacher create a slide with a tens frame on the screen where the boxes can be clicked for a dot to appear and then clicked again for the dot to disappear.
- Interactive is less time-consuming during the lesson while achieving the same learning goals. In a way, this example fits into the replacement stage because it does not change the learning goals and the amplification stage by increasing effectiveness during the lesson so that more time can be spent on problem-solving and less on drawing.
- Charts, Diagrams, Graphs
- Venn Diagrams
- K.L.W. Charts
- Web graphs
- and more
- The interactive whiteboard allows teachers to create these as they would on a traditional whiteboard. The software can enable the teacher to save slides with the writing added to refer to later as a reference piece or add to it when needed. This, again, can hit both the replacement and amplification tiers of the model.
Hughes, J. E. (2016, June 24). Replacement, Amplification, and Transformation: The R.A.T. Model [web log]. Retrieved from https://web.archive.org/web/20190612101737/https://techedges.org/r-a-t-model/.
Interactive whiteboard definition and meaning. Top Hat. (2019, September 16). Retrieved June 27, 2022, from https://tophat.com/glossary/i/interactive-whiteboard/
My district has had SMARTboards for almost 20 years (mid-late 2000s). They are awesome tools, and thankfully, many schools have been upgraded to the most recent models, the SMARTpanels. However, in my own library, I still have the original model, which was installed sometime between 2005-2008. Unfortunately cost is a huge factor in how districts replace older models, and my district also has prioritized elementary schools first (I am in a middle school) presumably because they assume the boards are used in a more hands-on manner than middle and high schools. However, I think that this is unfortunate because secondary teachers can find just as many ways to use the boards as elementary teachers can.
ReplyDeleteI love an interactive white board! I work with little ones, and this grabs their attention and is easy for them to operate. I had not realized there was so many resources already made for teachers. I had been making so much of my own materials (like ten frames and movable letters) on the flipchart program on promethium boards. Thank you so much for the resources! I will be bookmarking them for the future.
ReplyDeleteI definitely love my interactive white board! I would agree with you though. Most of the activities using the interactive white board would fall under the replacement and amplification stage of R.A.T. and not as much in the transformation stage. Thanks for the resources you provided!
ReplyDeleteI absolutely loved SMARTboards as a kid! It really made me eager to answer questions and participate in class so that I would be able to interact with it. It has so many potential uses, the possibilities are practically endless. I loved whenever my teachers would let students write on it or move things around, and I think it's much more interesting to students than traditional whiteboards. I was a super shy kid so class participation wasn't something I always had the easiest time with, but nothing was more exciting for elementary school me than getting to go up front and write on a SMARTboard!
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