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Anonymous commented at 2014-08-05 16:12:49 » #1581032
On the one hand, You shouldn't put a girl in front of the class, naked, when she is most likely gang raped by her classmates.
But then again, if I had been in a class where that would have happened, I would probably have made sure that it could only be my baby inside her belly.
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On the one hand, You shouldn't put a girl in front of the class, naked, when she is most likely gang raped by her classmates.
But then again, if I had been in a class where that would have happened, I would probably have made sure that it could only be my baby inside her belly.
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Anonymous commented at 2016-07-23 15:05:06 » #1991361
I'm sure there are plenty of real-life dwarfs/midgets/whatever the proper medical term is these days that are 30 and could pass for a elementary school student if they wanted to. Hell, I know a woman who's nearly thirty and could pass for a middle school student if she wanted to.
Also, white or yellow chalk on black chalkboard is awesome and it's a real shame so many American classrooms use the inferior dry erase board. Sure, you typically have more colors to work with on a dry erase board, but the inks smug more easily than chalk and tend to stink to high heaven, not to mention that dry erase boards tend to be a bit glossy, creating glare you don't get with the matt finish of a good chalkboard. It's certainly a case where the older technology is actually superior.
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I'm sure there are plenty of real-life dwarfs/midgets/whatever the proper medical term is these days that are 30 and could pass for a elementary school student if they wanted to. Hell, I know a woman who's nearly thirty and could pass for a middle school student if she wanted to.
Also, white or yellow chalk on black chalkboard is awesome and it's a real shame so many American classrooms use the inferior dry erase board. Sure, you typically have more colors to work with on a dry erase board, but the inks smug more easily than chalk and tend to stink to high heaven, not to mention that dry erase boards tend to be a bit glossy, creating glare you don't get with the matt finish of a good chalkboard. It's certainly a case where the older technology is actually superior.
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Jerl commented at 2016-07-23 15:59:20 » #1991394
Your first problem is assuming that they're talking about dry-erase boards. Schools here in my state have started to use gigantic touch screens, kinda like Wacom drawing tablets, instead. You can have whatever color background and foreground colors you want, and you can even draw over web browsers or PDF viewers or basically anything.
YMMV, I have literally never seen a dry-erase marker smudge through 3 years of middle school, 3 of high school, and about 4 of college. If you're talking about when you erase them, there's a reason they're called dry-erase markers - you're supposed to let them dry first before you erase them.
Which is false now; they still have ones that stink, but the majority that you'll find are low-odor. You basically have to put your nose right up to the marker to smell anything for most colors (though green still tends to smell).
Again, YMMV. I wouldn't call them matte, but every dry-erase board I've ever seen has been at most semi-gloss. I've never seen one actually glare, even with bright lights.
Setting aside how your complaints about dry-erase boards seem to be poorly substantiated, I can't imagine a single way in which a chalkboard would ever be superior to the aforementioned touchscreen boards.
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Sure, you typically have more colors to work with on a dry erase board,
Your first problem is assuming that they're talking about dry-erase boards. Schools here in my state have started to use gigantic touch screens, kinda like Wacom drawing tablets, instead. You can have whatever color background and foreground colors you want, and you can even draw over web browsers or PDF viewers or basically anything.
but the inks smug more easily than chalk
YMMV, I have literally never seen a dry-erase marker smudge through 3 years of middle school, 3 of high school, and about 4 of college. If you're talking about when you erase them, there's a reason they're called dry-erase markers - you're supposed to let them dry first before you erase them.
and tend to stink to high heaven
Which is false now; they still have ones that stink, but the majority that you'll find are low-odor. You basically have to put your nose right up to the marker to smell anything for most colors (though green still tends to smell).
not to mention that dry erase boards tend to be a bit glossy, creating glare you don't get with the matt finish of a good chalkboard.
Again, YMMV. I wouldn't call them matte, but every dry-erase board I've ever seen has been at most semi-gloss. I've never seen one actually glare, even with bright lights.
It's certainly a case where the older technology is actually superior.
Setting aside how your complaints about dry-erase boards seem to be poorly substantiated, I can't imagine a single way in which a chalkboard would ever be superior to the aforementioned touchscreen boards.
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Anonymous commented at 2016-07-23 21:57:49 » #1991541
Okay, I'm willing to admit my knowledge of dry erase boards might be outdated and my preference for chalk might be fueled more by aesthetic preference. Still, every memory I have of sitting in a classroom staring at the board says black chalk boards are easier on the eyes than dry erase boards, a computer screen, or any kind of projector. As for the really high tech solutions, my prior experience with smartboards did not impress me and this is the first I've heard of large scale touchscreens, though I must admit I'm not a big fan of this trend of replacing all physical controls with touchscreens that plagues consumer electronics, so I have my doubts I'd enjoy interacting with a touch board. I have had a few professors(usually for Computer Science courses) who made good interactive use of web resources during class, but that only really works for classes taught in a computer lab or if the entire class brings a web-capable device to every lecture, and even then, nearly all of them used an old-fashioned board of some variety along side the more high-tech stuff.
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Okay, I'm willing to admit my knowledge of dry erase boards might be outdated and my preference for chalk might be fueled more by aesthetic preference. Still, every memory I have of sitting in a classroom staring at the board says black chalk boards are easier on the eyes than dry erase boards, a computer screen, or any kind of projector. As for the really high tech solutions, my prior experience with smartboards did not impress me and this is the first I've heard of large scale touchscreens, though I must admit I'm not a big fan of this trend of replacing all physical controls with touchscreens that plagues consumer electronics, so I have my doubts I'd enjoy interacting with a touch board. I have had a few professors(usually for Computer Science courses) who made good interactive use of web resources during class, but that only really works for classes taught in a computer lab or if the entire class brings a web-capable device to every lecture, and even then, nearly all of them used an old-fashioned board of some variety along side the more high-tech stuff.
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