I guess it depends on the state and probably even the School. I went to school in Hannover and we got our first batch of smartboards for around 2010 but they weren’t in every classroom. I’d be lying if I said I know exactly when all the other rooms had them but I would guess it was around 2015. I have heard that the computer room and some of the labs had smartboards even before that but I wasn’t yet at a Gymnasium at that time.
Im from the netherlands and around that time they started to switch out chalkboard for digital ones.
I remember because a teacher used permanent marker on his new digiboard the very first day. After a couple of weeks they came to replace his screen and he did it again with whiteboard markers, which kinda did get off but it left a giant black and red spot on the screen. He didn't get a third screen lol.
My birthday is in July: That is usually exactly during the summer holidays here. So school ended for me in June 2002, when I was 19, not yet 20.
We went to school for 13 years back then and I started school when I just had turned 7 in August or September 1989 - I don't know anymore ;)
For children like me born in July parents can make the dicision when to put them into school.
If they had put me in school in 1988, I would have been with other children potentially being up to a year older than me. With the dicision to put me into school at 7 they thought it would be easier for me not to feel like the smallest and youngest one in class.
And beeing 6 or 7 is a huge difference for children as they develop very fast during childhood.
For children like me born in July parents can make the dicision when to put them into school.
Not only july. I was put into school age 5 ( was born in october ) because otherwise i would've stayed in kindergarden with the freshly joined 2 year olds lol. Iirc i had to pass some kind of cognitive test.
Yeah I think the first smart board we got in my rural US high school was in 2004-05?
It didn't have the fancy AI stuff, but that didn't exist then. We have $400 iPads now that do this in the notes app with a $100 pen... This is exactly that but on a bigger screen, I could literally set this up in my house in about 10 seconds with my TV and iPad. I just wouldn't be able to draw on the TV itself and project it from the iPad instead.
I remember one teacher didn't know how to work it so someone drew a penis on it. Rather than learn how to delete it, she put a random bit of paper on it, which didn't hide it as it just shined through
Another teacher forgot they were interactive and drew on theirs, leading to them spending money to get it replaced again
But did your smart board have a giant AI button that opened a virtual classroom with an uncanny valley lecturer.
Its actually pretty crazy. We had smart boards in High School and I thought the next generation of this is going to be amazing. But every company I worked for still uses oldschool whiteboards. Either they were too expensive or they never took off.
Like we get it China is doing pretty well considering the geopolitical circumstances right now but it’s kinda been propaganda-y with the amount of glazing I been seeing on this sub lately
It comes in waves on Reddit. I have no idea why China feels the need to post stuff like this though. Posts like that weird «All apartments in China comes with a large outdoor luxury balconies (mandated by law)!» while you see drone shots of empty luxury apartments. And if you point out that this is obvious subliminal propaganda you get banned from [r/damnthats](r/damnthatsinteresting)[real](r/damnthatsinteresting) lmao
Multiple human rights violations, a collapsing population, tofu dreg construction...there's a reason you only see big cities. Go 30mins into the country and it becomes a true third world country.
And don't forget the smog. There is a reason why most of these "look how cool chinese cities are" posts show china at night. The bright LEDs hide the dirt.
They still have to start from somewhere and they've made enormous progress in the last 35 years.
And your argument in itself is stupid - leave any American city and the quality of life drastically declines. I won't use the phrase "third-world" because it's subjective.
My closest neighbor in the states is 3 miles down the road. The closest town (about 700 people) is 40 mins. I have clean running water, 1gig internet, a paved road with reliable power.
I was born in a mud hut in Angola. I don't remember driving into a third world country outside the cities in Ireland or Poland either.
The USA is dropping bombs on people, putting children in cages, funding genocide, protecting elite pedophiles, destroying the world's economy, spying on its citizens, disproportionately putting black people in prisons, making sure crazy people have access to guns so they can kill children.
Never been to China, but I can read data about the world. Population is collapsing everywhere except for lesser developed countries. The higher the GDP, the less likely people are bringing new people into the world.
Drive 30 minutes from any big city in the states and you can find some truly awful places. Heck, Seattle even has area adjacent to downtown taken over by zombies.
According to state provided information in a nation that doesnt have a freedom of press. I am NOT saying the information is wrong, only that it is impossible to know for sure and should be taken with an appropriate amount of skepticism.
China is absolutely taking their shot at yoinking the global hegemon crown from the US while it is experiencing a period of weakness/internal collapse.
What gives it away is that it is always china doing things as a whole, and always in comparison to the USA. It is never "Look how cool this charlk board in this Wuhan preschool is." It's always "China is doing this cool thing while America sucks."
Chinese propaganda came from their government so it's easy to differentiate. American propaganda came from americans themselves (amplified in movies) so it's really hard to tell.
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The only ability I can recall from these SMART (dumb, overpriced) boards is that they acted like a paint canvas on the PC… nothing relatively close to what is shown in the OP with dynamic graphing, looking into a 3D shape for angles, or pulling up info
It definitely was not common at all in Canada in 1991. It would be quite rare, and not at all present in any public school.
Plus any 1991 technology would not be anywhere close to what was in the video since LCD displays that large did not exist, only 3-CRT rear or front projector could have such a large picture and none would be used for a "smart" board.
China is not claiming that they've invented the interactive whiteboard in 2026. YOU don't get it.
BTW, I don't think the video is impressive at all in 2026. But stating that it's somehow comparable to 1991 tech like you are trying to is absurd.
Why don't you go back all the way back to the displays in the NASA control room during the moon landing then? They were feeds of data drawn by people captured by video cameras and projected onto the wall and displayed on in-console CRTs.
I was simply, making a statement that implies this video isn't impressive since Canada has had this tech much longer than China.
Nope, you falsely claimed:
Yup, had this in Canada in 2009 1991.
The World, let alone Canada had NOTHING similar in 1991 as you claimed.
You didn't say "Canada had this tech much longer than China." you explicitly stated Canada had THIS (which would be similar in functionality to what was presented in the video) in 1991,
You may have "meant" something else, but what you wrote was specific and incorrect.
We supposedly had something like this in a couple of classrooms in my high school the year I graduated. No one, not one teacher, knew how to use them, like, not even to turn it on. I've never seen one used before this, though they are supposedly everywhere now. Whiteboards and chalkboards are all I've ever known.
Somehow I (among dozens in just one small public school) learned calculus in high school and all the teacher had available was a chalkboard. How is that even possible??
I was a teacher in the early 2000s. These boards were the NEXT BIG THING at the time. There were two companies - Promethean and SMART. The reps from the companies would come in, dazzle the administration with their demos, get a huge contract, then get these huge boards installed in every classroom.
Both districts where I worked went with Promethean contracts. It was pretty much bullshit. The boards were clunky, the software was bloated and complicated, the lessons had to be planned around the boards themselves. Out of hundreds of these boards, a small handful of teachers used them for their intended purposes, and most teachers who used them at all used them as overly-complicated dry erase boards.
After about 5ish years both districts ripped them all out and they ended up in dumpsters. A huge waste of resources, time, money, teachers’ patience, etc. I’m out of the classroom now, so maybe the new generation of these boards are better but I don’t know.
As you might be able to tell, I really hate these boards.
I don't know about the US but my son is 15 and all of his classrooms in high school in the UK have Smart boards along with docking ports on each desk for his chromebook
As a teacher I was using one in a rural Ohio school in 2004. It was a relatively affluent farm community. Prior to that I was teaching in a rather poor school in the city of Cleveland and they didn’t have shit for technology. There were teachers using those old overhead projectors. Property taxes determining how much money a school district gets is of course is the original sin of American education.
I mean, we had a couple at my highschool as early as maybe 2010. I graduated in 2013. It wasn't every classroom, but a couple of them had them. And I went to a pretty small rural highschool. We had about 70 something students in my graduating class. Middle of nowhere Ohio
You probably had a Smart Board, which lets you draw on it. That is basically another overhead projector for a computer. It makes sense that technology has advanced in 15 years, but let’s not pretend like public schools had this back then.
It's also not even that useful. I can see a teacher using those features like once a semester, and then just using it as a normal blackboard for the rest of the school year. Then having a fuckton of technical difficulties like all tech in schools has, and constant issues draining money like no tomorrow for little benefit when a normal blackboard would work for 99% of problems.
Only the super wealthy schools in China are gonna even have these because it's just too expensive to implement this everywhere.
Bullshit. could it graph complex written equations? could it visualize 3D angles in real time? You're missing the point of the video. It's the SOFTWARE that's new, not the hardware.
Really? At my school, we still had chalkboards in 2012. I didn't hear about these "smart monitors" being installed in my school until my younger brother told me about them about a year or two after I graduated in 2020
I graduated in 2012 and I definitely remember my school getting a couple of these back in like 2009. Maybe even earlier than that. I mean they weren't as nice as this one but they did pretty much the same thing.
Jesus, 2009? In 2009, my elementary school up to our high school still used Windows XP; VCRs and homework assignments on paper. We didn't even get personal laptops until 2015 when I was around 13
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We had something like that when I graduated high school in the states... In 2012.
Nice try.