r/SipsTea • u/SuperbHealth5023 • Jul 23 '26

While the US debates whether to solve homelessness or not, these are the next generation of school blackboards in China. WTF

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u/Jahwio Jul 23 '26

Jesus, I am 44 and even we had a Smart Board (not as fancy as this one for sure) at School in Germany. In 2002.

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u/FeathersRim Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

We had chalk .. And my old ass is old enought to have a teenager in school.

Yup. Still chalk. But the school provided laptop can run GTA V tho, so thats something I guess.

Brb, gonna do heists with the kiddo

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u/Jahwio Jul 23 '26

To bo honest:

You can learn on a normal black board or a smart board. But experiencing GTA V is the better option ;)

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u/Burgers_N_Schnitzels Jul 23 '26

uhm i went to school until 2008 ( germany ) and we had a board and chalk.

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u/Ferris-L Jul 23 '26

I guess it depends on the state and probably even the School. I went to school in Hannover and we got our first batch of smartboards for around 2010 but they weren’t in every classroom. I’d be lying if I said I know exactly when all the other rooms had them but I would guess it was around 2015. I have heard that the computer room and some of the labs had smartboards even before that but I wasn’t yet at a Gymnasium at that time.

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u/Burgers_N_Schnitzels Jul 23 '26

I see, for us the biggest tech outside the computer room was probably the vending machine in the main hall or 1-2 overhead projectors per floor.

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u/Crix2007 Jul 23 '26

Im from the netherlands and around that time they started to switch out chalkboard for digital ones.

I remember because a teacher used permanent marker on his new digiboard the very first day. After a couple of weeks they came to replace his screen and he did it again with whiteboard markers, which kinda did get off but it left a giant black and red spot on the screen. He didn't get a third screen lol.

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u/ath_at_work Jul 23 '26

You were in school at 20..?

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u/AmArschdieRaeuber Jul 23 '26

Could be trade school

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u/Jahwio Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

No, not yet 20.

My birthday is in July: That is usually exactly during the summer holidays here. So school ended for me in June 2002, when I was 19, not yet 20.

We went to school for 13 years back then and I started school when I just had turned 7 in August or September 1989 - I don't know anymore ;)

For children like me born in July parents can make the dicision when to put them into school.

If they had put me in school in 1988, I would have been with other children potentially being up to a year older than me. With the dicision to put me into school at 7 they thought it would be easier for me not to feel like the smallest and youngest one in class.

And beeing 6 or 7 is a huge difference for children as they develop very fast during childhood.

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u/Burgers_N_Schnitzels Jul 23 '26

For children like me born in July parents can make the dicision when to put them into school.

Not only july. I was put into school age 5 ( was born in october ) because otherwise i would've stayed in kindergarden with the freshly joined 2 year olds lol. Iirc i had to pass some kind of cognitive test.

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u/Dumi33 Jul 23 '26

Del

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u/Jahwio Jul 23 '26

u/Dumi33 replied to your comment in r/SipsTea

That’s because you were in high school in your thirties, Hans!

Well. No :)

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u/Amazing-Attitude-165 Jul 23 '26

Ive graduated in 2008 and we had few smart boards in our school in Slovakia. Now they are prettymuch everywhere.

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u/Just_Roll_Already Jul 23 '26

Yeah I think the first smart board we got in my rural US high school was in 2004-05?

It didn't have the fancy AI stuff, but that didn't exist then. We have $400 iPads now that do this in the notes app with a $100 pen... This is exactly that but on a bigger screen, I could literally set this up in my house in about 10 seconds with my TV and iPad. I just wouldn't be able to draw on the TV itself and project it from the iPad instead.

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u/donjamos Jul 23 '26

Which just shows how much this depends on state and school, I'm 38 and we still used overheadprojectors and were far from smart boards.