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ike  ·  4446 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: In which your parents are clued in to how different your life is from theirs

This is peripheral, but

    "We can't possibly expect the learner of today to be engrossed by someone who speaks in a monotone voice with a piece of chalk in their hand," one school principal says.

As a current teenager, I'd like to say for the record that all of my favorite teachers have always done it with nothing but a piece of chalk and an eraser. At least IMHO, the medium doesn't matter one tenth as much as the teacher him/herself does.