"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/05/2015 at 10:13 • Filed to: calvin & hobbes
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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn)
03/05/2015 at 10:13 • Filed to: calvin & hobbes | 8
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Calvin eloquently expresses my opinion of the push to get tablets in the classroom.
bob and john
> ttyymmnn
03/05/2015 at 10:15 |
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big bonus: instead of carrying 4 or 5 5 lbs textbooks, I carry 1 2 lbs tablet and i can fave almost as many books as I want!
bog con: TABLET GAMES
yamahog
> ttyymmnn
03/05/2015 at 10:21 |
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Lol, a friend of mine is going for a PhD in education technology, I'll have to show him this.
Sn210
> ttyymmnn
03/05/2015 at 10:21 |
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the highschool I went to switched to tablets instead of textbooks. They've also been using them to do "school from home" to save making up snow days
CKeffer
> ttyymmnn
03/05/2015 at 10:24 |
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The consolidation of all the text books into a single, much lighter, device is a very nice plus. Granted there are drawbacks as well, but I remember lugging around those heavy ass books when i was in school, and I just can't help but think a tablet would be a whole lot nicer.
V12 Jake- Hittin' Switches
> ttyymmnn
03/05/2015 at 10:24 |
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Fuck these things, there is no APUSH or ap-chem textbook in our IPads. It's a stupid idea.
Posted from my school Ipad
StoneCold
> ttyymmnn
03/05/2015 at 10:25 |
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I'm totally agreed on this. It's a terrible distraction, even if you try and restrict it. There are always ways around *goes to play Tetris on TI-83*.
I AM torn about sticking it to the academic book printing companies. I love honest to God paper, but the trees and printing expenses! The waste!
For Sweden
> ttyymmnn
03/05/2015 at 10:36 |
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Stupid kids, not doing things like the right (my) generation
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ttyymmnn
> For Sweden
03/05/2015 at 10:41 |
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I'm big saying that, but I do get the impression that, at least the elementary level, tablets were handed out like crazy, thinking they were the answer to everything. In most cases, schools had no idea how to use them. Curricula have caught up to a degree, but the idea that a piece of technology will suddenly make kids better students is flawed.
MonkeePuzzle
> ttyymmnn
03/05/2015 at 10:45 |
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I'm all for tablets in classrooms, because the amount of trees a school kills a year is criminal
Tapas
> ttyymmnn
03/05/2015 at 10:49 |
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Ever liked lugging pounds and pounds of books? No one did! But it builds character!
Ever liked dropping those books? Yes, because they didnt break like iPads!
Don't buy the latest rev books or pirate them if they're too expensive. We know publishers intentionally switch stuff around so you "have to" buy the latest version. Most people (at that age) don't pay for the other media they consume anyway (music, tv shows, movies).
Also, some people just prefer books than staring at a screen, like me.
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ttyymmnn
> MonkeePuzzle
03/05/2015 at 10:49 |
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I agree that as a textbook , tablets are brilliant. But that's not what this cartoon is about.
JeepJeremy
> ttyymmnn
03/05/2015 at 10:54 |
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I dislike computers more and more all of the time. I feel like I spend half my day telling my computer things that it should already know.
nermal
> StoneCold
03/05/2015 at 10:58 |
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I'm totally in favor of sticking it to the academic book printing companies.
*beginning of semester*
"This semester we're releasing a new textbook, which costs $483 and is required for the course."
*end of semester*
"That version is getting replaced soon, but we'll still buy it back from you for $3.25. Fuck you."
Flat Six
> ttyymmnn
03/05/2015 at 11:04 |
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My daughter has a tablet in her 3rd grade classroom. They don't use it all the time or every day. They do some fun stuff with it like math games, typing stories, trivia games. It's pretty harmless - no different than going to computer lab and playing Oregon trail, except there is more interaction amongst the students.
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For Sweden
> ttyymmnn
03/05/2015 at 11:13 |
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Oh I know, but your kids should still do it they way I did it. Do your kids even know how to set a choke in a car?
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ttyymmnn
> For Sweden
03/05/2015 at 11:24 |
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No, but they know how to choke each other.
Klaus Schmoll
> CKeffer
03/05/2015 at 11:29 |
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In Bavaria, school books are free, so the school hands them out at the beginning of the school year and the kids have to give them back at the end. At my last school we had the parents buy a second set of books that stay in the school. It's also a used set that they buy from the parents of the previous class and sell to the next parents, so it's rather cheap. It's quite a clever system. The kids have less heavy stuff to schlepp around, and they can't forget their books at home. Also no disrtaction from trying to hack their kiddie proofed tablets.
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Klaus Schmoll
> MonkeePuzzle
03/05/2015 at 11:31 |
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In Bavaria, school books are free, so the school hands them out at the beginning of the school year and the kids have to give them back at the end. At my last school we had the parents buy a second set of books that stay in the school. It's also a used set that they buy from the parents of the previous class and sell to the next parents, so it's rather cheap. It's quite a clever system. The kids have less heavy stuff to schlepp around, and they can't forget their books at home. Also no disrtaction from trying to hack their kiddie proofed tablets.
These books tend to live around 8 years or until the next change in the curriculum.
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CKeffer
> Klaus Schmoll
03/05/2015 at 13:06 |
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That sounds like a pretty decent system.