Educational Technology

August 14, 2010

Chalked up to history: blackboards hit the dust

Filed under: Educational Technology — admin @ 12:40 am

by HEATH GILMORE, Sydney Morning Herald

The days of the classroom blackboard are disappearing into chalk dust. One by one these silent sentinels to generations of students are departing classrooms across NSW, condemned to a life of decorative display in restaurants and pubs. Noisy, flashy interlopers, better known as interactive white boards, are replacing them. Yet the question stands: will these tech-heavy arrivistes still be standing in 100 years, like their stoic predecessors?

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/chalked-up-to-history-blackboards-hit-the-dust-20100730-10zsq.html

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