So why is it when a Teacher has a students in their class with Laptops (optional accessory as we’re not a 1:1 School) and as expected there is 1 student that seems to get off-task playing games or surfing the web, why is it that they want to throw Laptops out the window and not let them be used?
Why blame the whole user base just because 1 student (in this case) is a bit off task?
Now, not being a Teacher myself, I know that my comments may “ruffle a few feathers” but I also know that my Partner in Crime was literally fuming after a recent staff meeting over some of the comments that were made as this was discussed. She was diplomatic, and held her tongue.
Shouldn’t the Teacher be trying to find out why the student is off task, and try and work out ways to gather them in as well? Unless off course they are a misoneist, that’ll simply be their excuse I suppose.
How should a Teacher bring this student back, without casting all laptops into eternal darkness?
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Thanks for your diplomatic twist on my inability to actually form sentences to voice my absolute indignance at the ludicrous nature of what was unfolding before me. Even my parting comment of “Would you ban them from using their exercise books because they had doodled in them?” was met with a glacial response.
The incline on the climb to the top of this IT integration climb just got steeper all over again. And I feel lacking in enthusiasm, energy and twist-less…for the time being. Am re-evaluating what I want to achieve…where to begin…how many fronts to fan the fire on…one thing I do know is that my comment about letting them all go and working only with “my kids” is not the solution.
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It is very poor modelling for this teacher to blame the kid or the laptop for the excursion into game playing. How about, before anything else he (or she) blames him/herself for not setting an engaging activity. Only if it can be shown that the activity was relevant and interesting should the student’s motivation be questioned. Isn’t it as plain as the nose on my face (!) where to lay the blame ……… keep the student, keep the laptop, remove the teacher
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It just dawned on me that, if I’m not mistaken, this all took place when the Head of SS was absent due to her pending “Grand” arival.
Way to go with the timing of the discussion on the “teachers” part eh?
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whats worse than that is the discussion took place in shared prayer time
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