14th November 2013, 8:01 PM
Around here elementary schools tend to have SMARTBoards in every classroom. High schools have them in some rooms and not others.
What I found interesting is that the provincial education system is really pushing technology in the classroom, and university teacher preparation programs talk about how important it is, but the universities themselves haven't adopted the same technologies. The Faculty of Education where I went to school had two mobile SMARTboards (one was bought by the student association to use for training). We were told all about them and how important they would be in a classroom, but most students didn't actually see one (let alone use one) until they actually ended up in a practicum. It was the same with a lot of things there though, instructors in courses on student assessment would preach one thing about how assessment should be done, but didn't apply those principles to their own courses.
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Around here elementary schools tend to have SMARTBoards in every classroom. High schools have them in some rooms and not others.
What I found interesting is that the provincial education system is really pushing technology in the classroom, and university teacher preparation programs talk about how important it is, but the universities themselves haven't adopted the same technologies. The Faculty of Education where I went to school had two mobile SMARTboards (one was bought by the student association to use for training). We were told all about them and how important they would be in a classroom, but most students didn't actually see one (let alone use one) until they actually ended up in a practicum. It was the same with a lot of things there though, instructors in courses on student assessment would preach one thing about how assessment should be done, but didn't apply those principles to their own courses.
What I found interesting is that the provincial education system is really pushing technology in the classroom, and university teacher preparation programs talk about how important it is, but the universities themselves haven't adopted the same technologies. The Faculty of Education where I went to school had two mobile SMARTboards (one was bought by the student association to use for training). We were told all about them and how important they would be in a classroom, but most students didn't actually see one (let alone use one) until they actually ended up in a practicum. It was the same with a lot of things there though, instructors in courses on student assessment would preach one thing about how assessment should be done, but didn't apply those principles to their own courses.
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Around here elementary schools tend to have SMARTBoards in every classroom. High schools have them in some rooms and not others.
What I found interesting is that the provincial education system is really pushing technology in the classroom, and university teacher preparation programs talk about how important it is, but the universities themselves haven't adopted the same technologies. The Faculty of Education where I went to school had two mobile SMARTboards (one was bought by the student association to use for training). We were told all about them and how important they would be in a classroom, but most students didn't actually see one (let alone use one) until they actually ended up in a practicum. It was the same with a lot of things there though, instructors in courses on student assessment would preach one thing about how assessment should be done, but didn't apply those principles to their own courses.