This is just a side note but…
This weekend while I was home my mom recieved my brother’s registration letter for school. Contained in the letter was a note that said that this class of incoming freshmen (in high school) would be paperless. They are all required to buy a certain laptop and all of their tests, notes, papers ect. will be done on these laptops. They will not be using paper.
Comments?
WHAT!?!?! REQUIRED?!?!
that’s bull. what if a student can’t afford it? that’s what I’d like to know. I’d be . . well, yeah, I’d be mad. Especially for high school – I don’t see how you can get away with that.
sorry, just an education major venting. lol
I forgot to mention this but it is a Catholic high school so they are paying tuition…I’m not sure what they are doing if the student can afford the tuition but not the computer…It is still a huge expense to require I agree with you there.
I remember being a freshman in high school sitting in class and this girl got out her laptop. None of us had laptops in high school- we figured they were a college thing and that when our time came to graduate we’d get one. The teacher was like- “Um what’s that?” “My laptop. I’m going to take notes this way.” “Well you didn’t ask me if you could use it. It isn’t necessary. Just take out a piece of paper and write it down.” So the girl put her laptop away…
Now- just 4 years later- this is happening. Weird, isn’t it? I did see this coming. My cousins have to do something similar with a word programming thing, but the school supplies it. I guess our world really is changing, huh?
The other downside is that kids are going to be sitting in class on facebook instead of paying attention to their work. My high school had computers very readily available to anyone who wanted them, and even though Facebook was blocked, I found enough to distract me when I was trying to type papers in the library. (I’m sure someone else has heard of Sporcle…)
As Richard Dawkins said, “…surfing can be addictive and a prodigious timewaster, encouraging a habit of butterflying from topic to topic, rather than attending to one thing at a time.”
Though, I guess it does save paper?
there are so many things that are . . . dangerous about this idea.
and. typing itself is distracting. I have a personal example to share. This one girl was ‘blind’ in my high school, and I put that in ‘quotes’ because, well, it was up in the air whether or not she actually was. Regardless, this girl wouldn’t ‘write’ notes; she’d type them on her personal laptop. Let me tell you . . . annoying! taking notes while the teacher is talking is discrete, provided you’re writing. Typing? Please. loud. distracting. am I alone on that one?