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• 1. discreet_chaos  |  October 17th, 2007 at 1:55 am

  It’s a very entertaining video and is full of interesting statistics, but I’m not sure what they’re selling. At first, I thought it was an indictment of the educational system, bad students and unimaginative professors, but those things have and will always exist. Then, I was struck by the fact that though it may help push some methods into the modern age, WiFiing a whiteboard and collaborative papers are really only a life skill which will mostly benefit those going into a corporate environment because those who will find employment in a small office or a small business will have very few people with whom they’ll need to communicate on a regular basis.

• 2. Joe - fourhman.com  |  October 17th, 2007 at 9:39 am

  “WiFiing a whiteboard and collaborative papers are really only a life skill…”

  Couldn’t you have said the same thing 100 years ago about the chalkboard? Digital whiteboard is just a new way for instructors to transmit information. I kinda think that was the point: that we have new technology available, that kids grow up in that technology, but then we expect them to sit down in class for a lecture straight out of Little House.

• 3. discreet_chaos  |  October 17th, 2007 at 10:54 am

  Joe - I agree that a Wified whiteboard would be cool and all. My only really concern from an educational standpoint would be that the kid may not have to take notes, so part of the learning process would be skipped, but wouldn’t the use of this technology be up to the professor? I’ve never sat-in on a Trustees meeting, but I don’t know of any colleges that require the use of a blackboard, so the whole whiteboard vs. blackboard debate isn’t an institutional issue.

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