The+Last+Speculation

I have to say that I love using my Activboard in my classroom! The more I think I know about it the more I learn that I do not. There are just so many uses for it that my old overhead projector just did not provide, espically the downloadable flipcharts from Promethean Planet. The flipcharts provide a unique experience for my students that old style face to face instruction did not. However, I always like to think of the future of education and I forsee a more interactive media taking the place of the current Activboards. I own a Nintendo Wii and a large part of deciding to purchase it was the motion contollers and now I see that Xbox has a controller free motion unit. I see this as the replacement for the Activboards. If students could actually make movements in order to interact with the flipcharts then a kinesthetic approach could be used for the students that excell in that aspect of intellegence. With video game systems currently having success with this approach to gaming I don't think it will take long for companies to move the idea to the classroom. In fact Nintendo is at work on the next Wii system (currently titled a Wii HD) that will fully use body movements for the games. I think that within five years we will see the inclusion of some sort of motion control for the interactive classroom and it may be in the form of an upgrade to our current boards.

[|How motion control works]