Posted on 03/03/2020 7:37:45 AM PST by SeekAndFind
And with the advent of the Coronavirus disrupting classes everywhere, DIGITAL LEARNING will be a useful technology to ensure that kids continue their schooling.
The cheap piece of chalk was replaced by a $10,000.00electronic pen.
Horribly written.
And interminably long.
This does seem like an opportunity to end centralized education under the control of the government. Go digital. Go School Choice. Homeschool. There are options out there that don’t involve leftwing unions.
Today, both students and teachers have access to smart mobile devices, and a bunch of distance e-learning and assessment solutions...
.............and are dumber than ever.
As educational technology has been developed and distributed, K-12 educational outcomes have steadily declined, even as spending exploded.
Class, discuss.
I've seen smartboards throughout the Army for years. I've never seen one that actually works.
RE: This does seem like an opportunity to end centralized education under the control of the government.
This technology will likely DISRUPT the standard college education system that we have with its Five figures per semester tuition.
Because of the increasing tuition debt problems facing this country, Colleges will now be increasingly offering courses ONLINE as an alternative and tuition will DROP.
There is a huge market for this.
RE: I’ve never seen one that actually works.
Maybe you can share with us why you think it does not work.
“Horribly written.”
“And interminably long.”
I took the FR option and didn’t read it. I went right to the comments to find Freepers who bothered to read it:)
And then I get insight from other Freepers who didn’t read it either:)
I’m not sure. Usually the projectors work fine, and they function well as a screen, but I’ve never seen the pens/eraser/interactive pieces work.
Here at USSTRATCOM our boards don’t work b/c of driver issues—the drivers are for Win7 or maybe earlier, but we run Win10. The Win10 drivers don’t work with that board, so we’d need to replace the boards completely (they’re old enough that they’re using serial and VGA connectors), but there’s somehow no money in a $700+ billion DOD budget to accomplish such a feat.
For free!
I view them whenever I feel the need to brush up on my technical currency and its really impressive how well taught many are. Definitely will up my game as an instructor if I ever end up back in the academia world
RE: I’m not sure. Usually the projectors work fine, and they function well as a screen, but I’ve never seen the pens/eraser/interactive pieces work.
SO, it’s simply a matter of technological limitations, not the concept itself that’s the problem. If the technical issues can be solved, will the Smartboard idea be useful?
Billions of dollars spent to teach children that the sky is green, the grass is blue, White Man Bad and there are 500 genders.
I've been using an Ipad, digital whiteboard software and a projector to teach Sunday School classes for some time now and it works great. The classes love it. The days of a physical whiteboard and a felt marker are over.
Smart boards are over hyped and more an outcome of unlimited budgets at these K-12 suburban schools. I think it's time to move towards digital classrooms, fire half the teacher and most administrators and cut school taxes by half to start. Sell the schools to private industry and community taxpayers who own homes will get a $3,000 - $10,000 annual windfall which will help the economy explode.
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