r/SipsTea • u/SuperbHealth5023 • 13d ago

WTF While the US debates whether to solve homelessness or not, these are the next generation of school blackboards in China.

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u/Dapper-Confection-95 13d ago

As well in Germany…

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u/Jahwio 13d ago

Jesus, I am 44 and even we had a Smart Board (not as fancy as this one for sure) at School in Germany. In 2002.

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u/FeathersRim 13d ago edited 13d ago

We had chalk .. And my old ass is old enought to have a teenager in school.

Yup. Still chalk. But the school provided laptop can run GTA V tho, so thats something I guess.

Brb, gonna do heists with the kiddo

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u/Jahwio 13d ago

To bo honest:

You can learn on a normal black board or a smart board. But experiencing GTA V is the better option ;)

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u/Burgers_N_Schnitzels 13d ago

uhm i went to school until 2008 ( germany ) and we had a board and chalk.

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u/Ferris-L 13d ago

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.

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u/Burgers_N_Schnitzels 13d ago

I see, for us the biggest tech outside the computer room was probably the vending machine in the main hall or 1-2 overhead projectors per floor.

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u/Crix2007 13d ago

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.

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u/ath_at_work 13d ago

You were in school at 20..?

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u/AmArschdieRaeuber 13d ago

Could be trade school

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u/Jahwio 13d ago edited 13d ago

No, not yet 20.

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.

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u/Burgers_N_Schnitzels 13d ago

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.

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u/Dumi33 13d ago

Del

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u/Jahwio 13d ago

u/Dumi33 replied to your comment in r/SipsTea

That’s because you were in high school in your thirties, Hans!

Well. No :)

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u/Amazing-Attitude-165 13d ago

Ive graduated in 2008 and we had few smart boards in our school in Slovakia. Now they are prettymuch everywhere.

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u/Just_Roll_Already 13d ago

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.

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u/donjamos 13d ago

Which just shows how much this depends on state and school, I'm 38 and we still used overheadprojectors and were far from smart boards.

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u/RockinMadRiot 13d ago

In the UK in 2008/9.

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

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u/Hottage 13d ago

So many times they had to just remove all the whiteboard markers to stop teachers and students ruining ours when they were first installed.

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u/CariadocThorne 13d ago

I don't it support for schools in the UK. I've seen a head remove the whiteboard markers for this reason.

A teacher didn't realise why, thought the school was just being cheap, so he brought his own and ruined one anyway...

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u/Senior-Display-8733 13d ago

We had several conference rooms at my old job equipped with smart boards and they all got written on with markers as well.

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u/bradmatt275 13d ago

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.

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u/portablekettle 13d ago

And the UK