SMART Board Reflection

After reading the article on the SMART website I now understand what the creators were thinking when making the SMART Board. One thing that I think is important to understand when using a SMART Board is to not try to use the SMART Board in every lesson you teach; Nancy Knowlton one of the creators of SMART Board says, "The interactive whiteboard is a special-purpose tool that is particularly valuable in whole-class teaching and learning, and some small-group work. It is not intended to be used 100 percent of the time." This was interesting to me because the creators understood that this is not the best way to do all types of teaching but it is affective in many ways. Another thing that I learned from reading this article is that SMART has been working on pushing education to become technology based and the SMART Board is just the beginning to their impact on education.