The research question asks how interactive whiteboards can support interactivity and dialogic communication between teachers and students. This is mostly focused on use in Secondary History; although Primary and middle schools included in the study.
Changing balance of responsibility and understanding through participation. In contrast to 'acquisition of skill or knowledge through internalisation - participatory appropriation is moving towards interdependency and becoming. A theoretical stance that views time differently - as a whole rather than past, present, future.
Use of SFL to map the role of language (form and function) in learning History in Australian Secondary schools. Consciousness raising- both staff and students. Included ethnographic interviews to identify approx. 100 successful texts for analysis. Genre -purpose -staging. Teaching -learning cycle (deconstruction - work on genre- grammar-lexis - students' writing improved - particularly text structure and organisation.