Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Revenge of the Smartboards



One day, a teacher may simply be teaching a class using their trusty Smart board, but then the Smart board misclicks and then all of the work that they put on there is gone! Could it get any worse than that? Oh, yes it can.
Smart boards are notorious for misclicking, freezing, the invisible words (the words aren’t writing), accidentally closing websites, delaying the words, and list goes on and on. “I call my Smart board a dumb board,” says Mrs. Cook, one of the victims of the Smart board experience. Some might say (teachers and students) that Smart boards have minds of their own, which can make lessons a little harder to teach.
“I think that it’s pretty funny,” says Nick Hicks (Junior). “It wastes like five minutes of class time to try and reboot the whole thing.” It’s understandable why the students might find the Smart board messing with the teachers funny. It sometimes misclicks when the teachers try to fix it, making matters worse and hearing the occasional “No! I didn’t want to do that!” or maybe writing in a place two feet from where the teacher’s actually writing. But nonetheless, that can get pretty annoying when you’re trying to learn something and then the things you want to copy for notes disappear in front of your eyes.

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