The Future of Classrooms

PeeWee PC is in the final phase of becoming your source for interactive whiteboards. In case your wondering what an interactive whiteboard is, here are the basics:

An interactive whiteboard (IWB) is a large interactive display that connects to a computer and projector. Unlike traditional whiteboards that use ink and require erasers, the I. Whiteboard is a digital touchscreen display that allows teachers and students to interact with educational software for class projects and daily lessons.

A projector projects the computer’s desktop onto the board’s surface where users control the computer using a pen, finger, stylus, or other device. The board is typically mounted to a wall or floor stand.

• One of every seven classrooms in the world will feature an interactive whiteboard by 2011 according to market research by Futuresource Consulting.
• In 2004, 26% of British primary classrooms had interactive whiteboards.
• The Becta Harnessing Technology Schools Survey 2007 indicated that 98% of secondary and 100% of primary schools had IWBs.
• By 2008 the average numbers of interactive whiteboards rose in both primary schools (18 compared with just over six in 2005, and eight in the 2007 survey) and secondary schools (38, compared with 18 in 2005 and 22 in 2007).

Interactive Whiteboards are fun, environmentally conscious (no ink and erasers are used) and are truly the future of classrooms around the world.