Experimentación del uso didáctico de la pizarra digital interactiva (PDI) en el aula: plan formativo y resultados

Abstract

In the research we present, Mimio Interactive Spain, we intend to encourage the integration of information and communication technology (ICT) in classrooms, from the use of Mimio interactive whiteboard (IWB) with a plan for lifelong and contextualized training. This use of the IWB is supplemented with 3 accessories (a Wacom wireless interactive tablet, a Gyration wireless mouse and a Gyration wireless keyboard). Mimio Interactive Spain is a collaborative research in close connection with the action research statements in which 25 primary and secondary educational centers in Spain take part for an academic year (13 centers are primary schools and 12 are secondary schools). In the workshops performed in each one of these centers, the teachers involved progressively receive a didactical and technological training oriented toward experimentation and reflection of the teaching practice with the use of the IWB. We provide meaningful ideas about the training plan given from this research. We also provide results about the experimentation of the teachers with the IWB in their classrooms. Specifically, about the intensity of use of the IWB, about the use of the accessories of the IWB, about the most common activities performed in the classroom, about the advantages and disadvantages of the use of the iwb in educational practice and about the assessments of students’ learning processes with the use of IWB in the process of teaching and learning done in the classroom. In the outcomes, we analyze and evaluate the results to move forward in the teaching practice of the twenty-first century. Nowadays, this is an important challenge for all.