smartboard

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noun

interactive whiteboard

UncommonScrabble 15

Meanings

nounsmartboard (plural smartboards)

plural smartboards

  1. interactive whiteboard

    Smartboards make slides easier to display and manipulate, but teachers have been showing pictures to students for centuries.

    2013, Frederick M. Hess, Bror Saxberg, Breakthrough Leadership in the Digital Age, page 65
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    With a handful of notable exceptions, most urban classrooms in the United States operate just as they did a century ago: a chalkboard where a smartboard should be, a nicked desk instead of a multifunction workstation, and rows of students segregated in their schools and neighborhoods by class and race.

    2009, Margaret C. Hagood, New Literacies Practices: Designing Literacy Learning, page 8

    Smartboards sound like a great idea until you work out how much time and money they tie up. The boards themselves cost thousands of dollars and they must be linked to a computer and an LCD projector.

    2010, Michael Howell, Resistance Is Fertile, page 74

Origin

From smart + board, originally a trademark.

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