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Monday April 2, 2007
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Our childhood may have been filled with memories of hair-raising chalkboard sounds but many students in Mexico are experiencing science, history, math and other subjects via whiteboards that work like touch screens and it looks to be providing results. In light of this, the Mexican government is also mulling over the distribution of e-books to school going children.
The endeavor to implement this level of technology into classrooms doesn't come cheap though, with it costing about $5,000 to implement one of the big screens and associated computer. The central government is footing the bill, saying that education is a top priority. Lets just hope they don't get the bright idea to combine this program with their guns for an Xbox initiative. [via Ubergizmo]
Post by Andre Bermudez
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April 2, 2007 12:48 PM
Well, it's nice to know that Mexican education is light years ahead of ours. There's nothing like broken-spined history books that stop at the Reagan administration.
April 2, 2007 1:07 PM
I agree that this stance serves as a sharp contrast to the state of many of our own public school systems. Amid cutbacks to an already suffering budget, it's a wonder we still get chalk. Even when the technology is there it seems as if curriculums continue to struggle in how best to implement it.