Teachers’ Attitudes And Thoughts Towards The Interactive Boards And The Scenario Of Generating Contents About Lessons For Interactive Boards Serhat Gürgün sgurgun@ielev.k12.tr Abstract The interactive board is one of the most important developments of the educational environments today. It is used at schools especially at the Fatih Project in Turkey. The number of teacher using the interactive board is rising day by day due to the development of digital instructional objects. The interactive board has also an important role in education. The survey problem of this work can be conveyed as determination of primary/secondary/high school teachers’ knowledge and thought aimed at the interactive board. Since the interactive boards be used efficiently and rightly in education, the thoughts of teachers regarding the interactive board must be taken into consideration. So the goals of this work can be explained as follows: What is the purpose of teachers usage the interactive board?, What is the knowledge level of teachers relating to using the interactive board?, What are the thoughts of teachers relating to using the interactive board? What are some of the possible ways generating contents? The work has carried on evaluating the scale that was applied to the teachers and searching the literature. Getting better solutions is asked by working with a trustworthy scale. The data are analyzed statistically and the solutions are explained with the charts. The teachers who are involved in this work are primary, secondary and high school teachers and they typically work at private schools. Keywords: Interactive board, Student, Teacher 1. Introduction The world is in a great advancement period within the field of technology in the 21st century. Every passed day, hour, minute and even second, a brand new technology appears on the stage. Technology usage has been inevitable for the people. The technological devices that we use everyday are being replaced by the advanced ones even if they are not old. The people are getting to find it difficult to keep step with the advancements. Scientists are all of one mind that the 21st century is going to be the era of knowledge. In the world and in Turkey, these fast advancements in technology also reflect on the education system and affect the actions in learning and teaching (İşman, 2005). The togetherness of education and technology causes them to affect each other. Instructional advancements increase the pace of technology. Especially by tablets, interactive boards and internet technologies, the schools becomes an educational technology valleys. These technologies can anytime forward any information to students easily anywhere on the earth. Today, the progress level of the countries and the effectiveness in the competitive market is being measured by the capacity of educated man resources. The nations of today and the future need individuals who are aware of how and what to learn, able to reach the true information and create solutions for them. For this reason, the individuals need devices that can bring them information and devices that can provide the use of the knowledge. Interactive boards are efficient in compensating this need in instructional environments. In the new social structure, ISTE has defined the standards of basic information technologies and advised the institutions and the schools to develop the information and skills immediately (ISTE, 2004). But, the teachers’ and students’ interest, expectation and attitudes toward Internet should be known in order to use this vehicle efficiently. Because, the attitudes of an individual have a majority rate in the individual’s behaving in the desired way. The attitudes occur in the results of the lives. So in this case, what is understood very well is that the significance of stating the teachers’ and students’ interest toward interactive boards should be stated precisely (Erişen, Çeliköz, Çetin & Çetin, 2005). 2. The Subject of the Research “The assessment of the information, skills and ideas of the teachers’ toward interactive boards” consists the subject of this research. Whilst the preparation of this study, 176 teachers from some primary, elementary and high schools from Istanbul are given a scale of attitude. Then, the results taken from the scale are tried to be evaluated to extract a general solution. Although even fifteen years has not passed since the broad use of interactive boards began, it has already changed a lot of concepts in education as a mean of mass instructional tool. Maybe now it’s our first tool in education. In today’s technology era in which the educational technology is very important, not benefiting from the interactive boards efficiently for information communication in classrooms can not be thought. According to the specialists, interactive boards and applications which made by interactive tools will affect education sector in a good way. The ability of the individuals to learn efficiently and interactively without depending on time brings us the idea that educational technology era is going to affect education sector in a good way. The basic subject of this research interactive boards makes the learning and teaching easier and faster if we use it efficiently. Because they are just tools. Main component is still teacher in education. The efficiently way of using the interactive board that believing it is useful and we should try to create interactive instructional applications.