Rinfo/teaching approach

These multimedia tools for professional development present video case studies of secondary teachers using interactive whiteboards in science, English and history and a data projector, laptops and graphing software in mathematics. Each resource covers one topic area but offers more general ideas applicable to using the IWB in other areas, across a range of student ages. A fifth resource includes video clips from all four subjects and illustrates cross-cutting themes.

The materials aim to stimulate debate and reflection rather than present models of ‘best practice’. They include hyperlinks to video clips from the emerging themes, built-in prompts for thinking and discussion, suggested alternative approaches, and analytic commentary from teachers and researchers involved in the T-MEDIA research project at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. They illustrate and question how the technologies can be exploited to enhance learning in real classrooms. The resources can be used by individuals or groups of colleagues / student teachers.