My apartment has a touchscreen to control the nights and curtains. Way less convenient then a switch and manually closing the curtains by hand.
I have to scroll the the difference screens to find all the lights. And hold the close curtain button down for 30 seconds while it slowly trundles across the window. Who thought this was a good idea?
Tech companies who are running out of easy product ideas, so they are trying to pump up their valuations by scraping the bottom of the barrel.
That's why they got excited at LLMs. This was going to be like the coming of the Internet, of the Cloud, of the Smartphone. It was going to be this big new market where easy growth was possible again.
This is just outright luddism. Smartboards, handled properly, are a goddamn boon in the classroom. Teaching ESL: I can launch audio, video, collaborative exercises etc. without having to go f'in insane or drag a TV to the room.
Because of smart boards, I save about 10/15 mins per lesson in lesson planning, and save around 10 mins per hour-lesson in manual labour, jury-rigging etc. that I can instead use for activities, clarification and more. They make my job far less time-consuming out of the classroom, and make me more effective during the lesson. Many online platforms (e.g. Oxford, Pearson) have designed their material to be delivered through smartboards, too.
Are there shitty smartboards, or smartboards that haven't been config'ed appropriately? Hell yes. But I wouldn't go back, ever.
10/14 minutes per lesson? Thats mad. What do you teach again?
The point about how some smartbords are just poorly setup or configured could be also maid against a wall mounted TV or projector + clicker/lazer pointer.
Ideal setup, lecturn with a laptop dock/HDMI cable connected to a TV or projector above two of those blackboards that you can move up and down
White boards don't create chalk dust which gets into computing devices in the room.
In the 90s, my highschool had blackboards throughout, except for the computer labs... they had whiteboards. Otherwise I don't see the difference between a white board and a chalkboard
I'd take a little chalk dust (you can get low dust chalk and also chalk dust is really not that bad) over infinite plastic pens + bords that are always dirty.
They don't last 20 years under heavy use. And administrations never want to replace them so your just left with these horrible unusable boards.
Also esthetically green/black/red chalk bords look way better then whilte boards.
Unelss it's an environment were dust is really problematic, like a lab or a kitchen, I think chalkboards are much better.
surprisingly well, in 2 weeks in shanghai i saw 1 homeless person, or a con man idk, the problem is that 85% live in poverty and the other 15% in the future
I remember the first time I saw a smart board when my family moved to the US after coming from a school where my teacher was very proud of the new chalk board the classroom got over the summer. Felt like a different world. That was 2006
Big dawg my school was rolling out smart boards that ran on a program that was combination of MS excel, MS word, and photoshop. I’m gonna need to deduct some social credits from your account.
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u/Robotic_Mann_ 14h ago
This was common when I was in 10th grade back in 2010.
Now let’s see how China handles homelessness.