Interactive whiteboards are the hot ticket item in K-12 education today. They offer the promise of increasing student achievement through positive effects on student engagement and motivation. However, as Richard Clark has shown us, the media is not the method. Good teaching provides relevant access to technology-based resources in the context of standards-based instruction. Good teaching leads to increased student achievement. Inclusion of technology does not necessarily help teachers to achieve this goal. Current thought on learning theory says that when good teaching uses a student-centered approach to instruction then good learning is apt to occur. The use of an interactive whiteboard with student-centered teaching methods and standards-based curriculum is likely to increase student achievement.

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