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In reply to the discussion: Professors at research universities prefer teaching with old-fashioned whiteboards [View all]whistler162
(11,155 posts)21. I work in IT in K-12 and the biggest
hurdle for switching some teachers to newer technology, Smartboard and the like, is showing them what they can do with the boards.
One older teacher once we showed her the basics of what she could do with a Smartboard she was very taken by it. The classes she took on using the board didn't help but a little one on one work with her did.
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Professors at research universities prefer teaching with old-fashioned whiteboards [View all]
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
OP
"Distance learning," in one manner or another, has been the university initiative since the 1950's
alcibiades_mystery
Feb 2013
#6
This new technology is going to radically alter education beyond recognition ...
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2013
#10
Cost of reproduction and the shift to learning, rather than teaching, will change education
FarCenter
Feb 2013
#12
"shift to learning v teaching" = baloney. shift to corporate control of all education & information
HiPointDem
Feb 2013
#16
Far Center: the DIY education strategy works well for simple, discrete skills, not for deep learning
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#19
Dang, you mean we can't blindly apply mass production methods and get good results ?
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2013
#30
IIRC, there was a grad student or two that had posted hours; commuter students used them
FarCenter
Feb 2013
#47
Many classes have a policy forbidding anything beyond a four-banger calculator on exams.
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2013
#63
It has it's down side, but when you are working on a problem, nothing beats it.
bemildred
Feb 2013
#67
Except whenever I have a class with one I live in fear of that noise, you know the one. It's
Ed Suspicious
Feb 2013
#64
LisaLynne, for old timers who've been teaching the same courses for years...
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#28
"Old-fashioned" whiteboards ? Whiteboards SUCK. Blackboards are far more practical.
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2013
#9
There is such a thing as hypoallergenic chalk (Google), and at least some of what I have used ...
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2013
#62
Whatever you do, don't look up the ingredients in the whiteboard *cleaner* ....
eppur_se_muova
Feb 2013
#49
As a translator, I have come to the conclusion that the business world still thinks
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#20
Yes. they have almost a religious belief in data of any kind taken under any conditions
GiaGiovanni
Feb 2013
#36
Worse, both the teachers and the students tend to get wrapped up in the technology
Egalitarian Thug
Feb 2013
#40