Teachers and Technology

Things have changed since 1956, but some teachers don't know that yet. It appears that the majority of the teachers at our school have been living under a rock since then and have no idea of how technology could make their jobs so much easier than they are now. (Possible? Half the day they are sitting in their staffrooms having coffee and, in Geography's case, sitting on the couch, watching TV).

My English teacher claims that she knows how to use a USB stick and accepts assignments handed in on them. Sure, whatever you say.

When it comes to USB sticks, it puzzles me as to the whole point of handing an assignment in on one. I'm not sure if all teachers do this, but one of them certainly does.

I wanted to save paper, thus saving trees, thus saving animals and producing more oxygen to solve global warming bla bla bla by handing my assignment on my trusty little 1gb Toshiba I picked up at Harvey Norman for about $8 (that was back then when they were expensive). So he prints it out the next day and i'm like wtf. You've just ruined the point of the whole damn thing, you idiot! It's a f^%&ing .pdf! Read it with Adobe Reader or whatever program you use to read .pdf on your crappy little Mac G3. (Yes, they have one Macintosh G3 in the History staffroom. Pathetic.)

But what will be really interesting is to see how teachers react and use these nippy little laptops we're getting. Teachers are getting them as well, and they have to get lessons too! Lmao.

Let's hope every single teacher makes us use our laptops for everything we do, or at least give us the option to write the work down in our books or type it up on the laptops. What i'm really scared of is that the older teachers will most likely only let us use them for assignments, or research tasks. Lets hope not.

I won't write too much more but I just wanted to say is that watching old people use mobile phones is the funniest thing ever. Why do they use their index finger, on the opposite hand they are holding the phone in, to write an SMS? I mean, it's great that you've learn't how to send a text message, but you can use your thumb! Let your other hand free to do other things!