SMART Boards on the Frontline

While the TeqSmart training department spends most of its free time watching How I Met Your Mother and playing Guitar Hero, occasionally we switch the station to PBS to feed our brains. Last night, we caught an excellent episode of Frontline called Growing Up Online. In the middle of a section on technology integration in schools, we saw SMART Boards.

It was like one of our parents appearing on Entertainment Tonight. Is that show still on?

The section addresses the challenge of educating a generation of students that is technologically savvy and bombarded by information through countless forms of media. It contrasts the use of advanced educational tools with more traditional methods and teachers. (If Rose, the teacher in the video who says that technology makes her feel like a dinosaur just happens to read this, we just happen to know an awesome training department. Call us anytime.)

Click here to see the section with the SMART Boards. The part we’ve described is the first minute and twenty five seconds. If you want to watch the entire program, which we enjoyed thoroughly, click here.

We’d like to know your thoughts about technology in the classroom, the internet in students’ lives, or the season finale of How I Met Your Mother. Seriously, what’s up with Ted and Stella? We have to wait all summer to find out if she says yes? She’s got to be the mother, right? But, what about the 30th birthday episode when Ted makes a reference to living with Robin on his 31st birthday? And Barney! Don’t even get us started on Barney!

Please share your thoughts in the Comments section.

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