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Unfortunately, IMHO, electronic whiteboards are not a technology which inherently encourages pedagogic shifts in instructional practices

whiteboards continue to be used in very teacher-directed, didactic learning settings

I’d like to see all our schools proactively plan and implement sustainable one-to-one laptop learning initiatives.

I am quite tired of seeing so many teachers continue to persist in 19th century styles of teaching using 21st century tools.

As Marco Torres says, if teachers are still just asking kids to read pages 1 - 20 and answer questions 1 - 10 from the textbook, but now doing it with a flashy electronic whiteboard instead of a chalkboard or overhead projector, technology dollars have just been WASTED.

Smartboards are fun to use and often represent “low hanging fruit” for school board members as well as administrators who want to find visible ways to show the public “we support technology use in our schools” but at the same time minimize the potentially disruptive impact of those technologies on the traditional teaching and learning paradigm.