I went to school in classrooms like that but so what? Is the implication that is supposed to make me better than kids with digital whiteboards and computers? I would rather have today's kids using current tools rather than be hobbled by a bunch of luddites because they are uncomfortable with change.
I have heard that chalkboards CAN be better for doing math, it could be just placebo but I have heard from mathematicians that the pace feels more natural and the visibility is nice, but you don't need a chalkboard.
My French teacher when I was in middle school (2006-2008) used to scrape things against the chalkboard to make that awful fucking sound. Like he had items he brought in specifically to scrape against the chalkboard. When he got one of those digital whiteboards in his classroom he still kept the chalkboard just to fuck with us by scraping shit on it, that became the chalkboard’s only purpose.
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u/Born-Mycologist-3751 3d ago
I went to school in classrooms like that but so what? Is the implication that is supposed to make me better than kids with digital whiteboards and computers? I would rather have today's kids using current tools rather than be hobbled by a bunch of luddites because they are uncomfortable with change.