Education: An interactive display to prevent school dropout

In France, nearly 9% of young people will have left school without any qualifications by 2023¹. This sense of failure has become more pronounced during the health crisis, and much later. However, solutions are being developed, including the acquisition of interactive whiteboards.

One question remains among teachers and school directors: how to capture students’ attention? According to the official Canopé website, the average attention span of a primary school pupil is just 20 minutes, and up to an hour for a secondary school pupil. The aim of the French education system is therefore to find a solution to capture students’ attention². One proposed solution is to replace the blackboard with an Interactive display. The digital age is upon us. Four out of five schools are now equipped with a digital screen or interactive whiteboard. They are now part of the Education Nationale landscape.

Baiting dropouts with an interactive screen

This interactive touchscreen is used by Audrey Kistler, aka Professor Truck. This former secondary school teacher has converted a camper van in order to give private lessons in the Normandy region, as well as in Hauts-de-France. She covered up to 43,000 km in one year to give private lessons out of the ordinary.

Since taking to the road, she has come to realize the beneficial effects of the interactive screen. Not only do students see learning as a good activity rather than a constraint, but she also perceives greater motivation on the part of students who are seduced and glued by the size of the screen. Its imposing size and tactile aspect develops curiosity, “they always choose the tactile side instead of the mouse”, asserts the teacher.

Her watchword is learning while having fun. Speechi’s interactive screens allow for limitless creativity: “One student told me he played for an hour while we did math. I said, ‘Yes, but you didn’t even realize it,’” says a victorious Audrey Kistler.

What’s more, the Internet-connected whiteboard is ideal for the teacher. It gives her virtually unlimited access to teaching resources. She can help students from kindergarten through to the final year of secondary school, enabling her to react more quickly to problems encountered by pupils.

The touch screen as an individualized teaching tool

Interactive whiteboards Speechi offers considerable time savings for the teacher. She is no longer hampered by hardware constraints.

Comparable to a Windows PC, the Speechi screen enables intuitive use of its software. The teacher prepares her lessons in advance and connects her computer to her interactive touchscreen to store her teaching aids.

The practical aspect is in its use. She now has the means to write in digital textbooks and deliver much more collaborative teaching. This enables Audrey Kistler, for example, to contextualize and concretize complex notions such as mathematical problems more easily.

The Speechi interactive whiteboard allows two different students to be tutored simultaneously. This tailor-made solution gives Audrey Kistler the freedom to teach as she wishes, “which is exactly what I need”, adds the teacher. In fact, she can divide the screen in two and adapt the teaching material more easily to suit the student. Discover our range of whiteboard software for businesses and schools on our Speechi website.

Sources :

1: Number of pupils with learning difficulties in 2023

2: Student attention spans