Anonymous wrote:I have noticed a huge change in cell phone use in high schools over the past few years. Really, they are not an issue. Occasionally students need reminders to put theirs away but the vast majority of my students have not been distracted by their phones. I do not mind if they occasionally send a text and put it away. That’s the world we live in.
The laptops and other types of technology have made my job extremely difficult. They are the distraction. Whenever I’m using them in class, students are openly trying to do something else and no longer trying to hide it. I spend more time trying to manage these behaviors than teach. I’m hoping thrill wears off in a few years like it did with cell phones since students are also using laptops earlier and earlier and we can actually focus in class on instruction.
Anonymous wrote:This is truly hilarious because they're giving all HS students laptops throughout the system this year.
So now they can do whatever they used to do on their phones on their laptops while pretending to study, or even use the laptop screen to better hide the phone in front of them.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is truly hilarious because they're giving all HS students laptops throughout the system this year.
So now they can do whatever they used to do on their phones on their laptops while pretending to study, or even use the laptop screen to better hide the phone in front of them.
So you think laptops haven’t been in high schools to this point and that staff don’t know how to manage them already? Really?
You don’t seem very bright in these matters.
Anonymous wrote:What will privates do? Throw them out? Seriously?
Anonymous wrote:This is truly hilarious because they're giving all HS students laptops throughout the system this year.
So now they can do whatever they used to do on their phones on their laptops while pretending to study, or even use the laptop screen to better hide the phone in front of them.