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Fourth-grade teacher Marissa Lofthouse shows some of the features of an interactive whiteboard, which Agassi Prep features in every classroom.
Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 | 2:01 a.m.
Map of Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy
Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy
1201 West Lake Mead Blvd., Las Vegas
The old classroom blackboard is dust.
Every classroom in the K-12 Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy is equipped with a SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard. The boards are also being used in other Clark County schools.
The SMART Whiteboard is a multitasking every-tool that functions as a traditional blackboard, an overhead projector, a video player and tablet computer.
You can write on the SMART Whiteboard with your finger and erase it with your palm, or you can use a digital pen and eraser.
Teachers can make printouts of material that appears on the SMART Whiteboard, and then distribute the printouts to students who missed class or have trouble taking notes because of learning disabilities.
The SMART Whiteboard is equipped with an audio recorder, so teachers can upload the whole day’s lesson onto the Web. Students can then access the lessons from home. No more excuses for forgetting who got what in the Louisiana Purchase.
This story originally appeared in Las Vegas Weekly, a sister publication of the Sun.
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Really? People have learned just fine without all this expensive high technology. Sure it helps people "learn," but in reality, if people aren't motivated enough to learn with pen and paper, I doubt that a high tech doodad that can do the notetaking for them will help.
TalkingMan:Don't worry the soon to be released model upgrade has an apparatus on it that you strap to and it will move your arm automatically I might point out!