Subj : Re: Screens Distract Stud
To   : KURT WEISKE
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Sat Mar 29 2025 01:44:00

MP>  Laptops for teachers can enhance instruction, but Bloomberg
MP> acknowledges that, while student laptops can be useful tools, they
MP> cannot replace the value of a well-trained educator guiding students
MP> through meaningful learning experiences.

KW> How many students in a classroom can a teacher provide meaningful
  > experiences on a daily basis - 25? 30? 35?

I think, technically, a teacher provides a meaningful experience
to everyone in the room by what they say in front of the class if
they are any good at what they do. (Nowhere near guaranteed..)

Where things change is when some students can't keep up and need
more help than most. My Niece is a teacher and has 5 'special'
students in her class and she spends much more time with them
than the other 20 or so kids in the class put together..

Not P.C to say these days but these kids should be in a 'special'
class but they say it's better for all of them to pretend they
are all the same, in variations, but if it's taking away from the
average student I'm not sure the socialization is a fair trade-off.

That's the excuse anyways.. The actuality is that due to budget
cuts they can't afford to have special classes with much higher
teacher to student ratios for those students.

I actually did better in classes where the teacher totally ignored
me and let me work on my own. I had a History teacher once who was a
good lecturer but, when he was going over the things we were supposed
to have read in preparation for class, he found that myself and a
good friend of mine were the only ones with answers to his questions,
so he'd go to his desk and take out a MAD Magazine, toss it to us and
tell us to amuse ourselves while he tried teaching the rest of the
class something...   B)

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