Do kids today even know what a black board is? :o
the bird guy
I feel old
@maloki No, my 15 year old sister assumed I meant a very large screen at the front of the class - y'know, because whiteboards, but black, and screens (when turned off) are black.
I commend her for the logic of her assumption, but goddamn it made me feel old.
@maloki they are, to be fair, best forgotten.
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@troubleMoney @noelle @mona @maloki I started teaching with blackboards. I get nostalgic for them every now and then, but the dust was a BIG problem and I'm glad we don't use them in my building.
@troubleMoney @noelle @mona @maloki I recommend throwing usb drives and stylus pens
@craigmaloney @maloki Most of them except the old buildings at one of my schools.
Because while they have been trying to replace the former with digital ones for nearly a decade here by now, the tech absolutely sucks so both teachers and students prefer the traditional ones
@elomatreb @maloki Where I am, the latter is not called a black board, I believe regardless of age, but is called either a bulletin board, corkboard, noticeboard, or pinboard, in order of (my estimate of) local popularity.
@elomatreb @emsenn ours were mostly green.
@maloki @elomatreb My secondary school was about 100 years old when I attended, so our blackboards were hewn slate from the county west of us. Very cool and aesthetic, but not very good as writing surfaces; very uneven surface and porous, so hard to erase.
@elomatreb @maloki at least in the US they have mostly been replaced by dry-erase whiteboards I think
@elomatreb @maloki whiteboards being cheaper and easier to clean but also having way more expensive writing implements which they shrug the costs of onto the underpaid school teachers
@elomatreb they’re tax funded here too, there just aren’t enough taxes funding them
@elomatreb @maloki cheaper to install that is. The part the school cares about because they’re paying for it.
Largest issue with them has in my experience been that teachers didn't really understand them. They could've used some proper courses in how to use them. Maybe they'd have been better if they operated as standalone devices and didn't require a computer to complicate things, even if it would've limited the fearureset
@elomatreb
Oh I almost forgot about the calibration. Fun times
@maloki How about overhead projectors???
@maloki in K-12; depends on whether or not they read :P lots of books talk about blackboards but they're not in schools
in colleges they're still around though
