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Miami-Dade To Give Teachers 18 Months of Interactive Whiteboard Training — THE Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Miami Dade is deploying over 10,000 interactive whiteboards by the beginning of the 2015 school year. Admittedly I haven’t priced smartboards in a few years. I sent emails to a number of school officials and haven’t heard back on the details of this contract. In doing a couple of quick checks, $4000 is a reasonable estimate for purchase and installation of one of these smartboards. At 10,000 units that’s $40 million dollars. Plus the 18 months of training. Plus bulbs for the projectors. Plus support.<\/p>\n

It boggles the mind.<\/p>\n

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Approximately $80 million and Miami Dade doesn’t sell meth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

That’s a lot of money spent on technology that hasn’t been shown to have any long term impact on learning outcomes.<\/p>\n

I wonder how many of them will still be used as anything other than a whiteboard and projector in 2 years. Every one I’ve seen has been ripped out or gets used as a simple white board.<\/p>\n

Some sales guy must have had a really good quarter though.
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See also:\u00a0YOU CAN HAVE MY CHALK WHEN YOU PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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