Gone are the days of chalk?...I think not...

"Smart" boards, the replacement for the traditonal black or green chalk boards, will change the way teachers teach. This new piece of technology has many advantages that come along with its sleek, elegant design. Teachers no longer have to get their hands dirty they can merely project whatever they want on the screen or use it as an extended userface of their computer so that the learners can see what the teacher wants to show them. The teacher can swipe and touch to click on the interactive white board and no longer needs to write everything out with chalk and manually erase it afterwards with a eraser which is usually a dusty business leaving not only your hands and clothes dirty but your sinus cavaties as well. The intreactive white board so much to offer although realistically its not all that great. The main advantage is that you do not end up full of chalk, its efficient and effective and it is a intreactive meduim for the classroom. 

However, the traditional chalk board still gets the same job done, the transparent projector and the slightly more evolved projector gets the same job done. So in a country where funding for education does not always go where it is intended, I would rather use the money for the interactive whiteboard, which is not cheap, towards something else like take the learners on an excursion to a museum perhaps. So all in all the interactive white board does have advantages however this is simply not realistic if you are going to be a teacher at a school that really needs your qualification instead of going overseas, because this country needs you, the interactive white board becomes a 'nice to have' rather than 'a must have'.