INTERACTIVE WHITEBOARD AND
INTERACTIVITY
Interactive whiteboards can currently be considered a
standard among teaching devices that schools normally
have at their disposal. Withtheir help, the teacher can
easily create active and creative environment. The
hardware or software of a specific interactive whiteboard
does not matter, because the current boards are practically
comparable and bigger software differences mean only a
different level of user comfort, which is of course
important to consider when choosing an interactive
whiteboard. However, it is not a prerequisite for the
creation of the aforementioned creative and active
environment in the classroom. Thus, a board itself is not a
guarantee of interactive teaching, but it enables an
extension of the standard interaction of teacher – student
and student – teacher for an interaction of pupil –
interactive whiteboard, teacher – whiteboard and vice
versa, as shown in Figure 1.