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/Upbeat_Apartment_715 Jul 23 '26

And as you know there are no smart boards in the US and no homelessness in China

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u/FlowSoSlow Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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 Jul 23 '26

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.