This was a comment I left on a fellow teachers blog, but I figured my loyal readership deserve the opportunity to read this as well.






Smart boards were installed in every classroom in my first placement, yet the understanding of how they work was largely left to the individual to play with. From a strictly financial p.o.v. this should be a worrying sign, as the money spent to install these bad boys would be high, surely a little more room could be spent to give educators at the very least a basic tutorial about how they work before leaving it up to teachers to further their understanding of them. 

This would be particularly frightening to the older teachers, who are already frightened of computers and dreading the inevitable rise of sky net and the end of the world as we know it. Asking them to teach themselves how to use a smart board is most likely to be met with a swift ruler over the knuckles followed by 30 minutes of being pelting with hard boiled lollies while being lectured about 'things in the old days'.


Until schools put in certain training programs in place, it will be left up to the motivated few teachers interested in new teaching methods to incorporate smart boards into their lessons. Until then, they shall sit there, under utilised.