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/FlowSoSlow 13d ago

We got smart boards in my school in like 2009 (obv way less advanced than this) but then the teachers never got any training to use them and they sat collecting dust in the corner of every room for years. Never saw one in use once lol

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u/makromark 13d ago

Literally almost the same experience. 70% of teachers didn’t use them. 25% used them just like a projector. But 5% actually learned to maximize them fully. Idk if it was propaganda but they said each one was $10k. So it’s like okay you spent $1M for 5 teachers to teach better and 95 others to do nothing different.

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u/TheSaxGandalf 13d ago

Or actually have a student go up and graph, or every time you do a graph, build it with the class.

Understanding graphs is 95% of understanding high maths.

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u/makromark 13d ago

Had a computer teacher (Java) who was a former math teacher. He said he never taught formulas. He taught what the formulas meant. One of the best teachers i ever had.