Today we spent the class learning to use smartboards and eventually playing with them. I'll be the first to admit that they're fun and cool but I still feel that in the end, you pay 3-5 thousand dollars for what is essentially a power point projector and a whiteboard. I struggled hard to develop a lesson for chemistry in which the smartboard would really help and even be integral to. I came up with something that seems forced. I would much rather be using a whiteboard and my own demonstrations. It's not as though chemists come up short on those. Between small explosions, light effects, feeling the heat or cold, seeing the gas or the color. A smart board just doesn't do it justice.
Perhaps they will be more useful when the cost decreases and teachers are not forced into using them and they can be an aside. Much like the projector is today.
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