On Board With New Learning Tool
Interactive - and expensive - device popular with teachers, students
At Westside Middle School in Barrow County, students can't wait to get out of their seats to chart linear equations or identify Shakespearean characters using a high-tech whiteboard at the front of class.
"We really don't like sitting and taking handwritten quizzes," said Carolyn Hanson, an eighth-grade student who on Wednesday used a handheld device to answer math questions on the whiteboard.
Unlike the chalkboards of yesteryear, interactive whiteboards - also called SMART Boards or Promethean boards, their brand names - allow teachers to relay lessons and concepts using streaming video, sounds and colors to appeal to students' different senses. Teachers can tap a plethora of online resources, then create tests and quizzes, and post them for all to see, listen and touch. ....Read the rest of the story here
You can bet your sweet bippie that they're using some new learning tools over there! Since when did the government own all businesses? ...Or am I a little behind the times? (see below)
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