New High Tech Learning Tool... What on earth are they teaching?

There's a story coming out of Athens, Georgia about some new high tech learning tool. But there's more to the story that definitely meets the eye (H-T to Politics Alabama ). What on earth are they teaching our children now-a-day? Here, you can see for yourself: (also see picture at bottom of page) ~ Norman E. Hooben

On Board With New Learning Tool

Interactive - and expensive - device popular with teachers, students

By Ryan Blackburn - ryan.blackburn@onlineathens.com

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.

http://images.morris.com/images/athens/mdControlled/cms/2010/01/29/556187053.jpg Photos By Tricia Spaulding/Staff Madilyn Glockson, a sixth-grader at Westside Middle School in Barrow County, answers a question on a SMART Board during class Thursday morning.

Photos By Tricia Spaulding/Staff

Madilyn Glockson, a sixth-grader at Westside Middle School in Barrow County, answers a question on a SMART Board during class Thursday morning.

"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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