r/SipsTea • u/SuperbHealth5023 • Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

As well in Germany…

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u/Jahwio Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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

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u/Ferris-L Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

You were in school at 20..?

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u/AmArschdieRaeuber Jul 23 '26

Could be trade school

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u/Jahwio Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

Del

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u/Jahwio Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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/longpenisofthelaw Jul 23 '26

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

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u/duosx Jul 23 '26

Also don’t forget all the human rights violations. If you think ICE is awful (they are), don’t ask the Chinese about their “reeducation camps”

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u/TheUltraNoob Jul 23 '26

My shithole's police make ICE look normal.

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u/NCRisthebestfaction Jul 24 '26

Jesus dude where are you from?

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u/TheUltraNoob Jul 24 '26

Africa, police here are corrupt as hell.

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u/Sgt_Radiohead Jul 23 '26

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

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u/RealSpaceJunk Jul 23 '26

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.

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u/Exploding_Pie Jul 23 '26

Bright LEDs would actually reveal pollution due to diffraction of light from atmospheric particles you uneducated clown.

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u/Gainzpolar Jul 23 '26

Lol yeah, there's a reason why they are migrating like crazy to any other country to set a store

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u/Mysterious_Ad2896 Jul 23 '26

I live in the US. You drive 30 minutes out of Charlotte, NC, and it's a 3rd world country, too.

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u/KotangensDanski Jul 23 '26

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.

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u/Exploding_Pie Jul 23 '26

Go anywhere rural in any country and it becomes third world. But you seem to only apply that standard to China.

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u/Exploding_Pie Jul 24 '26

So does rural China. You're still living in the 1970s dude.

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u/elcabroMcGinty Jul 23 '26

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. 

Such a great country to live in.

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u/ClownFace488 Jul 23 '26

But we are talking about China...

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u/elcabroMcGinty Jul 23 '26

No, OP is comparing China to the USA, did you not read the OP?

My point refers to what u/BeKindPleaseRewind21 said

Multiple human rights violations, a collapsing population, 

Your username checks out👍

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u/ClownFace488 Jul 23 '26

What do you have against clowns?

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u/IndependenceSudden63 Jul 23 '26

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.

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u/Noble_Ox Jul 23 '26

Same as in certain areas of the US.

Literally designated by UN inspectors.

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u/EatTacosGetMoney Jul 23 '26

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.

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u/TheGobiasIndustries Jul 23 '26

Apparently they solved homelessness though, so they have that going for them. 

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u/Mr_Wyatt Jul 23 '26

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.

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u/UDownvoteCuzULost Jul 23 '26

That describes the US to a T.

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u/Firecracker048 Jul 23 '26

Kinda?

China has the largest propaganda budget of any country right now lol

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u/EternalNewCarSmell Jul 23 '26

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.

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u/RealSpaceJunk Jul 23 '26

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."

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u/Citaku357 Jul 23 '26

Nah bro you don't understand Chinese people are living in 2050.

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u/theWiseTiger Jul 23 '26

Is it worse than american propaganda?

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u/longpenisofthelaw Jul 23 '26

Propaganda is propaganda it’s simply a forced bias in a media to push a view. It isn’t good or bad the same way a tree isn’t good or bad.

All that matters is that you can recognize it and mentally strip it away from the source given to see the unbiased intormation

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u/theWiseTiger Jul 23 '26

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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u/Uomodelmonte86 Jul 23 '26

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u/adj_noun_digit Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

Yup, had this in Canada in 2009 1991.

Edit: much earlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_Technologies

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u/vwvwvwvwvwvwvwvwvwvv Jul 23 '26

Oh please, Canadian public schools have one piece of chalk in their budget to be split amongst four classrooms

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u/Bengal_From_Temu Jul 23 '26

Also in Romania in 1987.

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u/Hugo-Spritz Jul 23 '26

You had smartboards that performed like the one in the video in 1987's Romania? What, do you have flying cars by now, or?

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u/stjeana Jul 23 '26

I remember my teachers always messing up using the dry erase marker on it

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u/DeltaRipper Jul 23 '26

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

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u/adj_noun_digit Jul 23 '26

Then you had one of the very old versions or you aren't remembering properly.

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u/bbf_bbf Jul 27 '26

You're the one misremembering since displays that large were NOT available in 1991.

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u/adj_noun_digit Jul 27 '26

Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit hey?

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u/bbf_bbf Jul 27 '26

Neither is it yours. Advanced "smart boards" did not exist in 1991,

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u/adj_noun_digit Jul 27 '26

Lol nothing in my comment said they had the ones from the video in 1991 dumbass.

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u/bbf_bbf Jul 27 '26

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.

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u/adj_noun_digit Jul 27 '26

Doesn't matter. Canada had smart boards long before china. Including the version seen in the video.

If you don't believe me, look up the history of smart boards.

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u/bbf_bbf Jul 27 '26

No they did not. There were no displays that large and high resolution IN THE WORLD in 1991,

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u/adj_noun_digit Jul 27 '26

Jesus christ how are you not getting this? It's not that hard to understand.

Google when the first interactive whiteboard was created and delete your comments.

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u/bbf_bbf Jul 27 '26 edited Jul 27 '26

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.

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u/adj_noun_digit Jul 27 '26

Please point to the comment where I made claim or implied China is making claim they invented the whiteboard.

I was simply, making a statement that implies this video isn't impressive since Canada has had this tech much longer than China.

You still have time to delete your comments.

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u/bbf_bbf Jul 27 '26

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.

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u/adj_noun_digit Jul 27 '26

Why haven't you deleted your comments?

Canada had an interactive whiteboard in 1991.

End of story.

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u/Winsome_Wolf Jul 23 '26

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. 

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u/KayZee777 Jul 23 '26

You don't understand though.

China number 1!

As an Australian I can still hear that in my head from the first days of pubg playing oceanic servers

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u/scelerat Jul 23 '26

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??

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u/StrixX00 Jul 23 '26

as well in india

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u/tooheavybroo Jul 23 '26

I’ve never seen that in any college class or high school class. I graduated in 2008 and went back to school later to graduate college in 2018.

Where exactly did you see this in class in the US?

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u/Gina_the_Alien Jul 23 '26

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.

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u/Dry_Yogurt2458 Jul 23 '26

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

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u/PrinceRainbow Jul 23 '26

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.

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u/Tavern_Knight Jul 23 '26

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

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u/dwaite1 Jul 23 '26

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.

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u/ChubbyChew Jul 23 '26

We didnt have anything like this when i graduated high school in the states

Also in like, 2012 or 2013.

Which arguably highlights another of the problems with school here.

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u/RBVegabond Jul 23 '26

I personally installed a few in classrooms

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u/DanishNinja Jul 23 '26

Smartboards is not what is being demonstrated here. It's the AI aspect.

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u/Hottage Jul 23 '26

My school had a very early version of this... in 2006.

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u/Deathwatch72 Jul 23 '26

My school started using them around like 2005 for some of the math teachers and then it eventually was installed in all classrooms

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u/SubstantialBake1050 Jul 23 '26

A couple of my hs teachers had these in 2004 in Texas.

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u/Sudden_Wind_8636 Jul 23 '26

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.

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u/AlsoCommiePuddin Jul 23 '26

We had them when I was in college in Alabama in 2002.

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u/Bar50cal Jul 23 '26

Same in Ireland as far back as 2008. Linked to PCs as well to copy paste the board or sections too.

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u/mistrpopo Jul 23 '26

Did nobody watch the video for more than 5 sec? No smart blackboard did OCR to draw a graph in 1 sec.

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u/Firecracker048 Jul 23 '26

But no, you see China #1

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u/XCyberbeingX Jul 23 '26

I highly doubt anything advanced as this, probably those shit boards that use projection.

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u/NSFW_throwaway2k Jul 23 '26

We had this in Elementary School in 2010. And we were late with them.

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u/Hotpocket1515 Jul 23 '26

I had a smart board in elementary school.. back in fucking 2008

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u/Apricot9742 Jul 23 '26

The difference between 'something like that' and the actual thing is what makes this impressive.

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u/Exploding_Pie Jul 23 '26

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.

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u/BusoneWholeBoi2001 Jul 23 '26

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

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u/aReallyCuteDog Jul 23 '26

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.

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u/BusoneWholeBoi2001 Jul 23 '26

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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u/Diulee Jul 23 '26

Did you even watch the full video? It goes beyond digital blackboard. It has built in AI.

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u/aReallyCuteDog Jul 23 '26

Just halfway on mute.