The Multimedia Interactive Whiteboard (MIW) in a Supervised Teaching Practice in Basic Education

The research that we conducted seeks to ascertain the contribution of the use of multimedia interactive whiteboard (MIW) in the introduction to reading and writing to students of the 1st grade of the 1st cycle of basic education. The sample was composed by all the students in a class of Basic School, located in Castelo Branco. The objectives that guided our study were to introduce the MIW in an educational context and promote their specific use in the teaching/learning of reading and writing, proposing teaching strategies accordingly; assess whether such use effectively improves the teaching / learning process in the area concerned; identify the main advantages and disadvantages of using the interactive whiteboard. The methodology was qualitative and specifically a case study. The triangulation of data enabled the perception that, in comparative terms, the use of MIW came to promote better learning within the teaching/reading and writing and learning. The students concentration ratios were being more extensive and more consistent, leading to a gradual improvement in performance.