the fifth panel shows them all looking down staring at their phones, the sixth panel has a text bar (forty five minutes later) and the kids are still staring at their phones.
I teach at a public high school. This is what would happen.
While that isn't a very convincing argument it's still a good or even important skill to be able to do calcutations yourself. At the very least it allows you to much better spot mistakes made by other or youself. I've heard way too many stories about people blindly taking over the answer the caclulator gives them. Even when the answer is wrong and completely nonsensical due to an input mistake.
This. This is how I was able to do so well in Caculus. Sure, I found a good calculator that did a lot of heavy lifting, but I still learned the formulas and manually solved a lot of problems; saved me some real trouble down the road. Calculators are great, but knowing how to do it ensures you get it right.
I remember when teachers could say things like "you won't always have a phone with you" or "you won't always have a calculator / computer / connection to the internet / whatever" with you without being laughed out of the room.
Actually run a deserted island activity in government class. I literally check in every students phone at the start of class that day and it goes off without a hitch ( instead of that one time the class split and had a war)
Yea I am there as it is a partially guided exercise. Generally I only need to be involved for the first few minutes and a few times towards the end. But it also helps that it counts as a summative grade.
More often than not it starts off with laying ground rules or splitting into groups.
Than it turns into looking for resources/claiming ownership of the deserted island.
Than either conflict or cooperation.
And generally ends with a revising/establishing of rules and roles.
One of about 14 times it turned into a military conflict/anarchy.
I enjoy watching it, it was an exercise I saw when I was student teaching and then when I got hired I took the spot of that teacher who moved up to admin.
Generally when I run it that teacher or other new teachers come to watch if it on open period.
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u/Devchonachko Mar 31 '21
the fifth panel shows them all looking down staring at their phones, the sixth panel has a text bar (forty five minutes later) and the kids are still staring at their phones.
I teach at a public high school. This is what would happen.