9.01.2010

Michael Staton on Why SmartBoards are a Dumb Initiative

Smartboards don’t change the model that’s broken. They just make that model way more expensive.
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Michael Staton

I can't complain about SmartBoards too much; I taught two years in a district with a whole slew of them. I came in after the money was already gone and most of the moaning had ceased and was able to find a niche using the SmartBoard software to make math videos for our school.

But here's a blog post that takes a critical look at SmartBoard purchases by school districts from the CEO of Inigral, Michael Staton, from his blog Edumorphology:

http://www.edumorphology.com/2010/05/why-smartboards-are-a-dumb-initiative/

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