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- Abbypurdy on 2008-11-10 - Tags school funding , education , Newsweek , anecdotal evidence
- Yemmie on 2008-10-10 - Tags no_tag
- Giftedteacher on 2008-10-05 - Tags WhiteBoard , newsweek.com , iwb , technology , smartboard , newsweek , interactivewhiteboard
- Jennfano on 2008-10-01 - Tags article , Smartboard
- Tammyw on 2008-10-01 - Tags whiteboard
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t faculty members at Sir G. E. Cartier Elementary School in London, Ontario, went through last spring seems beyond the call of duty: a few of them agreed to be duct-taped to a gym wall while students hit them in the face with pies. Why on earth would they do that? To raise $3,000—enough cash for an interactive whiteboard, the most coveted piece of educational technology on the market right now
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a few of them agreed to be duct-taped to a gym wall while students hit them in the face with pies. Why on earth would they do that? To raise $3,000—enough cash for an interactive whiteboard
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In the U.K.—where 70 percent of all primary and secondary classrooms have interactive whiteboards, compared with just 16 percent in the United States—students in those classrooms made the equivalent of five months' additional progress in math.
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studies suggest that the devices boost attendance rates and classroom participation.
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Many older educators are "petrified" of the boards, says Peter Kornicker, a media specialist at P.S. 161 in Harlem, where despite a student poverty rate of 98 percent, all 35 classrooms are equipped with touchscreens
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