The article "A Board to Banish Boredom," written by R. Savita of the Hindy Business Line, is making the claim that incorporating the SMART Board into classrooms will ensure more class participation and engagement. The study goes on to discuss the daunting dropout statistics of students in India. It proposes that if SMART Boards were being used in the school systems, that these statistics would drastically decline resulting in a better education system in India. The article mentions that the interactive white board is a powerful stimulus in the classroom because: Everyone can write on it and are able to save their changes. It has high visual impact, creating a theatrical effect in the classroom. It facilitates better class control/ management, as well as many other benefits.
I agree with the benifits of Interactive White Boards but I doubt that introducing these in India will greatly reduce the dropout rate. There are probably many other issues in Indian culture that create the high dropout rate and simply introducing new technolodgy will not solve these problems. Did he by chance site any other possible issues?
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