Future Use

        Future use of interactive whiteboards is debatable. Although they are becoming more and more commonplace in schools, technology constantly improves and changes. Tablets and other inventions have provided alternative methods for completing similar benefits to the classroom education (Perera 2008). These products are cheaper than the interactive whiteboards, which may attract schools to adopt them over interactive whiteboards. However, interactive whiteboards have been proven effective with extremely few drawbacks. In addition, there is always the opportunity to upgrade and add improvement packages to the current market of interactive whiteboards. If the makers and producers of this technology can engineer a way to make the boards more resistant to damage, the interactive boards would be even more attractive to schools. The makers also need to keep up with the ever-changing technology. If these boards do not keep up with the current technology, the boards’ popularity and practical use in comparison with other technologies will die, and other options will be more beneficial for the learning environment. However, if the makers of these boards keep up with changing technology, as they are doing now, the interactive whiteboards may stay in use for quite some time.