TRADITIONAL BACKBOARD Vs DIGITAL BOARD
There always was, is and will remain a debate on which one is better the traditional chalk and black board or the digital white board. Personally I think it should be a 70:30 combination of the two, favoring the traditional black board. When a teacher draws a figure, flowcharts, equations, pathways, concepts on the board, these concepts virtually are drawn on to the students mind, whereas the power-point slides are just flashed on and off in a jiffy. The major advantage of the blackboard system is its longevity of impact it can have as a defacto standard on the students mind. A blackboard harnesses more effective powers to retain concepts in the core memories. I think teaching with chalk board is irreplaceable. A teacher can easily deliver the subject by writing on chalkboard. Many sitting over the other side of this knowledge business do not like oral presentations without some writing done or only with flash slides popping in and out. In subjects like math’s use of black board with chalk is the only way of teaching. In biology diagrams help students who draw them in their note books, when teacher draws them on the board, time is available for them. In physics derivation can be easily derived in a manner understandable to students by use of chalk board. In chemistry stoichiometry of equation, formulas, chemical reactions can well be taught only by use of a board. Students interested in taking running are greatly aided by this non electronic and manual device and writing on black board gives them ample time to make notes. Multimedia though are very good in areas of animations. Concepts which are very hard to mobilise on blackbords can be easily made to move and thus understand via animations. Finally on the basis of my two characters first my 25 years of passionate teaching experience and second an electronic savvy teacher that I am, I conclude that a teacher must use a black board to deliver 60-70% of his/her time and syllabus to the students and remaining time and syllabus could be explained using multimedia.
There always was, is and will remain a debate on which one is better the traditional chalk and black board or the digital white board. Personally I think it should be a 70:30 combination of the two, favoring the traditional black board. When a teacher draws a figure, flowcharts, equations, pathways, concepts on the board, these concepts virtually are drawn on to the students mind, whereas the power-point slides are just flashed on and off in a jiffy. The major advantage of the blackboard system is its longevity of impact it can have as a defacto standard on the students mind. A blackboard harnesses more effective powers to retain concepts in the core memories. I think teaching with chalk board is irreplaceable. A teacher can easily deliver the subject by writing on chalkboard. Many sitting over the other side of this knowledge business do not like oral presentations without some writing done or only with flash slides popping in and out. In subjects like math’s use of black board with chalk is the only way of teaching. In biology diagrams help students who draw them in their note books, when teacher draws them on the board, time is available for them. In physics derivation can be easily derived in a manner understandable to students by use of chalk board. In chemistry stoichiometry of equation, formulas, chemical reactions can well be taught only by use of a board. Students interested in taking running are greatly aided by this non electronic and manual device and writing on black board gives them ample time to make notes. Multimedia though are very good in areas of animations. Concepts which are very hard to mobilise on blackbords can be easily made to move and thus understand via animations. Finally on the basis of my two characters first my 25 years of passionate teaching experience and second an electronic savvy teacher that I am, I conclude that a teacher must use a black board to deliver 60-70% of his/her time and syllabus to the students and remaining time and syllabus could be explained using multimedia.
