Backlash

Now we're at the place where the newness has worn off and students are devising ways to get out of doing their work. Yes, it is not enough to have a blog, and YouTube, and links to expedite learning...this semester half the students arriving to class say they do not have home internet services, or very limited at best.

It seems that now with the Google Cloud and the Chromebooks, school work proceeds with or without snow days. The students have learned that a snow day is actually a window of opportunity to work on their projects and that expectations are that the lesson continues and questions are asked/answered online. Shocking!

So, in these cases I am back to printing off hard copies of the lessons and the students are producing notebook journals and index card notes manually. I still expect to see work on snow days, and hard copies for a unit are issued all at once at the beginning of the unit. That reality has come as a surprise to some. In fact, I await today's classes to see how many suddenly decide having access to the internet is not such a problem after all since NONE of them like to hand write information. We are becoming a typing society.

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