Research On The Attitude Of Teachers Using Interactive Electronic Whiteboard In Primary Schools Of Cities In Northwest China

Along with the continuous development of educational information technology,interactive electronic whiteboard has been gradually popularized in elementary education.Meanwhile,interactive electronic whiteboard,as a type of information technology education technique,provides technological possibility and convenience for classroom interaction,teacher-student interaction,and student-student interaction,laying a technological foundation for establishing the classroom teaching which centers on students' learning.Adapting to the development of the times,this paper investigates some existing problems in the primary school teachers' application process of interactive electronic whiteboard in Yinchuan City.In order to explore some teachers' attitude problems of applying interactive electronic whiteboard into classroom teaching.It adopts literature research method,questionnaire survey method,interviewing method and case study method in the research process.At first,through teasing and researching literatures,it summarizes the research status of teachers' attitudes towards the applications of information technology and interactive electronic whiteboard,analyzing the deficiencies in the research and looking for the entry point of this research.A questionnaire survey is conducted on the teachers in six primary teachers in Yinchuan City.It investigates teachers' attitudes towards interactive whiteboards from the aspects of cognition,emotion and behavior,in order to probe into the differences between teachers' cognition and behavior.The interviewing method and the case study method are combined to have an in-depth knowledge of teachers' true attitudes towards the applications of interactive electronic whiteboard.Through the deepgoing and meticulous of the material consolidation and analysis,the followings two conclusions are drawn.For one thing,there are four types of teachers'attitudes towards the applications of interactive electronic whiteboard:passive attitude,ability demonstration attitude,active wait-and-see attitude and active exploration attitude;for another,social environment,school management and individuals are the factors which exert impacts on teachers'applications of interactive electronic whiteboard.Interactive electronic whiteboard serves as a daily teaching tool in primary school education.Different teachers have different attitudes towards the applications of interactive electronic whiteboard.Yet,they are generally positive.Inconsistency exists between some teachers' attitudes and behaviors.Social environment,school management and other factors have certain impacts on teachers' attitudes towards the applications of interactive electronic whiteboard.Eventually,it proposes strategies for changing teachers' attitudes towards the applications of interactive electronic whiteboard in Yinchuan City.