SMART Board Benefits

By creating a lesson using SMART Board software, I learned how to make my lessons interactive while keeping the focus simple and directed, one of the main benefits of a Powerpoint. This will transform the learning process because my students will become active learners instead of passive learners. By having my students come up and write on the board, or click matching tiles, or move sentences into a correct order, they are not just rotely memorizing the information, they are moving further up on Bloom's Taxonomy by analyzing and synthesizing the information. This higher level of thinking and processing is the greatest benefit that SMART Board technology has to offer, as it inspires students to think creatively and critically about history instead of just memorizing dates and names, a concept that has unfortunately become so standard in modern day Social Studies curriculum.