When I started teaching - my school in the ghetto of Brooklyn was part of a one-to-one initiative where all students received tablet PCs. It was there I was introduced into the intricate problems that come with students and technology. And sometimes not so intricate.
Me: Francisco! Stop! Pick up your tablet! What on earth are you doing? (Rhetorical, he was dragging the tablet on the ground, pulling it by its pen cord).
Student: I'm pretending it's my puppy.
In my well-to-do "Google" school, we have are issues as well. There are many problems I just couldn't predict because of my lack of experience. (However, I really wish the person who did it last year would have taught us a few things from her experience.) I finally took a lesson to address a few basics, that I only learned recently myself. Issues connected with sharing school iPads, Google drive, and basic responsibility and organization. (Although, I should have predicted the organization problem, its just that I was having such a hard time getting a handle on it myself!) And then there's those issues that only fifth graders can find...
Student: Arel is going to help me get 1000 subscribers.
Me: How?
Student: He's going to open 1000 gmail accounts and subscribe to my channel.
Goals.
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