How can it be that a simple tool like a traditional whiteboard is still relevant after the introduction of digital products in the learning environment? The answer may not be in the whiteboard but the human being using it and the audience learning from it. Human beings are natural sensory learners who’s capacity to remember is enhanced by engaging multiple senses that a traditional whiteboard offers. 
Traditional whiteboards enhance visual, auditory, and kinesthetic senses. They are also democratic allowing any level of business person or educational instructor a quick and simple tool to use. Contrast that with a digital whiteboard which is subject to training, connectivity, unpredictable glitches in the system, power outages and software updates. Traditional whiteboards expand learning by getting material across in a deeper way stimulating sensory learning vital to both short and long term memory.
The first step in learning is the spatial processing which traditional whiteboards impacts. The very act of writing, drawing or watching teachers engaging a class with activities on a whiteboard stimulates the brain and improves recall. Traditional whiteboard moves information from sensory to short term and
eventually too long term memory.
Humans brains work like the traditional analog whiteboard in that they remember data left to right and impact the “working memory”. And the very act of a teacher or presenter actively writing and physically up at a whiteboard often stimulates the retention of information.
Contrast that to students sitting at a desk staring at a screen sitting passively taking in information or looking at a digital whiteboard that often mimics their screen time in off school activities. Students and others often need an analog learning environment actively stimulating more senses in their brains than screen watching. Preordained to learn through active presentations students will remember more of the subject matter when the environment includes active teacher presentations.
Having less screen time and more analog traditional whiteboard teaching and learning is an impactful technique.
Learn more about the effect of traditional whiteboards on learning from the National Library of Medicine article; “Finding the answer in space: the mental whiteboard hypothesis on serial order in working memory”
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