Even if we DO decide to care about "efficiency" (many good arguments against this frame as mentioned in this post), all these simplistic "hours saved" hand-waving calculations usually still *aren't even measures of efficiency*!

Such an uphill battle talking about this in tech where people often cannot even IMAGINE the case where "good" doesn't equal "faster" or "less time"

@grimalkina When I was going to Teachers College, it was a year or two after most elementary schools had put in SmartBoards.

We had to learn to use the Smart board software and holy cow is that a lot of work.

As an elementary teacher, you're responsible for coming up with 6 hours of lessons a day x 5 days a week. It has to be entertaining, engaging, structured, follows the curriculum........ Imagine if you had to make a Powerpoint for each part of that lesson, but each object in that Powerpoint needed to be programmed for human interactivity.

I know some teachers who actually did this for almost every single class. It's an 18 hour/day job, because then you also have admin work, marking, social work, your lessons crashing so you're crying under your desk...

@grimalkina @mayintoronto I was academic tech support at a university for a few years, and in that time I did not ever once see a smartboard work. Not once.

We spent so much time and money on that shit, and we never once asked if solved a real problem anyone had, or even if it worked at all.