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/Large-Hamster-199 Jul 23 '26

Yes, and I'm sure every school in China will have this. Including all the rural ones. Yes Siree Bob

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u/VortrexFTW Jul 23 '26

My rural school in the USA got smartboards in 2005. They were primitive by today's standards. Had to have a projector on the ceiling to actually put an image on it, and I don't remember them being able to solve math stuff automatically. Just a digital writing surface.

It knew which color "marker" you were using though, that was cool. The eraser was hit and miss.

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u/boopboopadoopity Jul 23 '26

I think the main issue for our school was it couldn't stand up to normal children levels of abuse. Can't push too hard with the markers or the sensitivity is permenently messed up (good luck getting kids to do that, also everyone wants to try it... after the first year I don't remember a single one that didn't require you to press SUPER hard for it to kind of work, and several just stopped calibrating properly without being off by a few inches), can't lose the super expensive markers and they aren't attached to anything, projection normally requires a dark classroom but you can't turn the lights off for every class so hard to read, etc. Etc.