Yesterday, I posted a picture in Facebook of myself demonstrating the use of an interactive whiteboard to a group of teachers. I was quite surprised that a number of my friends like the picture and the response that I got from it. It reminded me of a totally different experience about 2 years back when I was working for a company that sells interactive whiteboard which totally freaked me out. As part of our marketing campaign for our product, we had invited a number of school administrators for a training seminar on the new technologies that could be used for the K to 12 program that was to be implemented by the Department of Education. At the end of the presentation a school administrator asked “Why should we use that considering that a blackboard could also create the same result?” I really could not remember what I answered back, it could have been in the line of “you are an old ignoramus that's why you are not appreciating this” that she was really...