13th October 2013, 9:15 PM
You're also in Oklahoma, though...
Looking it up a bit, it sounds like some schools have these things, while others don't. I don't think it's as ubiquitous as you people make it sound, unless things are different in Oklahoma than elsewhere (since you both live there).
As for me, my last school experience was in college of course, and if they had anything like these I didn't hear about it. Of course though, in college, in the kinds of classes I was in only low-level classes had all that much of a use for a board... a smartboard would have only limited use outside of large lecture halls, I think, and they didn't have them there either, not as of '09 at least anyway. They had projectors you could connect a laptop to in large lecture halls, though, sure. Most classes didn't use them though, I don't think. I can't entirely remember, really... those 100-level college classes were a while ago, and as I said higher level classes didn't use such things (maybe some used a computer to put a presentation/notes on a projector? Not sure how common that was though.).
I do know that my last two years of college, in graduate school ('06-'08 in classes)... our classes for history grad school were held in a conference room. I think it had a whiteboard, maybe, but certainly no projector, or computers. It/they would not have been used anyway. I was in that room again last year, to defend my thesis, and it looked the same as ever as far as I could tell.
I do have several relatives in education (highschool and college), though... I could ask them if their schools have these things. This is probably something MUCH more common in elementary schools than any higher level, I'd guess -- it seems more useful there... at a college or highschool level, would it really be much better than just having a whiteboard or projector you can put the notes/subjects list up on?
Looking it up a bit, it sounds like some schools have these things, while others don't. I don't think it's as ubiquitous as you people make it sound, unless things are different in Oklahoma than elsewhere (since you both live there).
As for me, my last school experience was in college of course, and if they had anything like these I didn't hear about it. Of course though, in college, in the kinds of classes I was in only low-level classes had all that much of a use for a board... a smartboard would have only limited use outside of large lecture halls, I think, and they didn't have them there either, not as of '09 at least anyway. They had projectors you could connect a laptop to in large lecture halls, though, sure. Most classes didn't use them though, I don't think. I can't entirely remember, really... those 100-level college classes were a while ago, and as I said higher level classes didn't use such things (maybe some used a computer to put a presentation/notes on a projector? Not sure how common that was though.).
I do know that my last two years of college, in graduate school ('06-'08 in classes)... our classes for history grad school were held in a conference room. I think it had a whiteboard, maybe, but certainly no projector, or computers. It/they would not have been used anyway. I was in that room again last year, to defend my thesis, and it looked the same as ever as far as I could tell.
I do have several relatives in education (highschool and college), though... I could ask them if their schools have these things. This is probably something MUCH more common in elementary schools than any higher level, I'd guess -- it seems more useful there... at a college or highschool level, would it really be much better than just having a whiteboard or projector you can put the notes/subjects list up on?
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