Digital screens may replace blackboards
In Round Rock, old-fashioned blackboards are slowly giving way to large digital screens; educators say the technology is expensive but worth the price.
By Bob Banta
ROUND ROCK — The old-fashioned classroom blackboard with its eraser dust and chalked lessons on how to spell “c-a-t” or add 2+2 is slowly giving way to digital screens.
The devices — 49 inches tall by 66 inches wide and less than 2 inches thick — look like large computer screens. They can take students on virtual tours of foreign countries, explain math processes, present scientific concepts and display how much each student has learned that day.
“This new technology is great for all students — regardless of whether they learn best by touch, seeing or listening — because it is so interactive,” said Andre Underwood, a third-grade teacher at Callison Elementary School. “It makes students want to participate in discussions and activities.”
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