The research question asks how interactive whiteboards can support interactivity and dialogic communication between teachers and students. This is mostly focused on use in Secondary History; although Primary and middle schools included in the study.
Changing balance of responsibility and understanding through participation. In contrast to 'acquisition of skill or knowledge through internalisation - participatory appropriation is moving towards interdependency and becoming. A theoretical stance that views time differently - as a whole rather than past, present, future.
Positive outcomes from collaborative work between University Researchers and Teachers in raising standards for all students including ESL students by instigating intellectually challenging curriculum through creative and innovative planning. How is intellectual quality realised in the classroom. SCLA positions teachers and students being active in collaborative learning processes.
Use of SFL to map the role of language (form and function) in learning History in Australian Secondary schools. Consciousness raising- both staff and students. Included ethnographic interviews to identify approx. 100 successful texts for analysis. Genre -purpose -staging. Teaching -learning cycle (deconstruction - work on genre- grammar-lexis - students' writing improved - particularly text structure and organisation.