IMPACT OF SMART BOARD TECHNOLOGY ON LEARNING BEHAVIOUR OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

The smart board technology is a way to provide quality education to these students in terms of knowledge, skill and values. S. Hennessy (2011) explored that interactive white board technology opens up opportunities for learners to generate, modify, and evaluate new ideas, through multimodal interaction along with conversation. The aim of the study was to find out impact of smart board technology on learning behavior of secondary school students. The data was collected from 900 students of the secondary schools of STD VII, VIII and IX of SSC, ICSE & CBSE boards of western suburbs of Mumbai district. The findings of the study revealed that there is positive impact of smart board technology on the learning behaviour of secondary school students. From the observations, it can be concluded that the impact of smart board technology on learning behaviour of secondary school students of STD VII, VIII and IX of CBSE board is better than that of ICSE board.