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Technology benefited us in every aspect of our life right from communication to education. New methods of teaching have been introduced which is known as smart board technology. In this aspect the present study holds importance. The objectives of the study were to find whether there is any significant difference in the perception towards usage of smart boards among male and female teacher educators and teacher educators belonging to private and government Institutions. Samples of 150 Teacher educators belonging to B.Ed colleges, Karnataka during the academic year 2024-2025 were selected. Data pertaining to the usage of smart boards were collected through stratified random sampling techniques through survey method. The tool used for the present study was smart board scale developed by Manjunath (2022) was adopted. The researcher visited the B.Ed colleges personally and it order to collect the data. The tools were administered to the selected samples under normal conditions. The separate variance model of t-test was used for testing the hypotheses for the significance of mean difference in the usage of smart boards' scores of various groups was compared. Findings revealed that Male and female teacher educators differ statistically in their perception towards usage of smart boards. Comparing to the mean values of male teacher educators [1.4492] is greater than female teacher educators [1.3870]. Hence male teacher educators have more perception towards usage of smart boards. Teacher educators belonging to government and private Institutions differ statistically in their perception towards usage of smart boards. Comparing to the mean values of teacher educators belonging to Private Institutions (1.4254) is greater than that of teacher educators belonging to government Institutions (1.3886). Hence teacher educators belonging to private Institutions has more perception towards usage of smart boards.