Comment by konschubert
1 year ago
Those digital blackboards are pretty bad.
They are laggy and have lower resolution than a chalk board or a whiteboard.
And what for? What can they do that a whiteboard cannot?
(teachers should write on a board and not use slides, because slides cause teachers to go too fast and to jump over important details.
Easy to erase. Easy to show slides, videos, or animations. Easy to annotate said media with the digital market.
Slides are entirely appropriate, especially if the teacher is teaching the same class multiple times per day.
> Slides are entirely appropriate, especially if the teacher is teaching the same class multiple times per day.
I have had Maths professors who were teaching the same class for decades. They would pencil it all out on the blackboard. We copied it by hand. This slowed everything down and we got time to digest the content. First questions could be asked and answered.
And yes, we all had laptops, but we kept them in the backpack.
It was awesome.
(German university ~10 years ago)
Just wheel in the frickin' TV on a cart! Is that so hard?
Where I studied, every classroom had a blackboard and a projector, with the rollable white screen just above the board. When you show slides, roll out the screen. When you need the board, either use the portion beside the screen or roll up the screen if you don't need it at all.
When I was in highschool my teachers started getting SmartBoards. Every class then spent some amount of time fiddling with the Smart Board, getting it to work, debugging it. For them to... just not write with a marker on the white board right next to it? It was a worse product for more money.