The Interactive Whiteboard as a Motivation - Enhancing Resource

Abstract

The motivation of the student is a key factor in their learning. However, any teacher will have noticed how a high percentage of students lose motivation as they progress from Pre-school Education to Elementary Education, many of them decreasing their school performance. This way, in Pre-school Education, the great motivation of students can be noticed when they start to study, showing interest in everything and participating in any activity. However, it does not happen the same in Elementary Education, above all the in last years of this stage. Given these clear differences in the change of attitude of students of Elementary Education, the objective of this project arises: to increase the motivation of students through the Interactive Whiteboard, demonstrating what some authors say: “The use of the whiteboard in the classroom motivates students and teachers” (Gallego and Dulac, 2005). Probably it will not be an easy task, but it will be an advance in this new resource. The project was aimed at this end, in order to find out if the use of the interactive whiteboard in educational environments could achieve that increase in motivation. Through a series of timely validated questionnaires, many responses were obtained by teachers and students, whose analysis came to determine, among other things, the accuracy of the title of our article.