Do All Teachers Need (or Want) an Interactive WhiteBoard?

School administrators know that requests for interactive whiteboards in classrooms is growing. With the downturn in the economy, it's been difficult for schools to make this teaching tool available to all who want to put them to use in their lessons. According to a survey in Technology & Learning and according to what all of us educators already know, not all teachers who have interactive whiteboards in their classrooms use them and not all teachers want one. The T&L survey showed, however, that the majority of folks who voted either had the whiteboards and loved them or didn't have whiteboards and wanted them. Okay, but wouldn't most teachers on the T&L site be favorable to tech tools anyway? The percentages would probably be lower if a random group of educators were asked the same questions. Although we all not ready to put the tools of tech to work in our classrooms today, we have to admit that classrooms and teaching are changing because of what we can do with technology. Back in the late 1960s, discussions at Stanford's School of Education envisioned interactive classrooms in which students felt they were in another country, on another planet, or in another climate. Are interactive whiteboards the beginning of a new era in learning immersion?