~~~UOs~~~I don't know what day it is Edition!

Into+the+Kitty

TJ1979 said:

Apparently my UO is that UOs should be on Wednesdays

@stoneycakes The people have spoken. They seem to agree. Maybe we should move UOs to Wednesday!

Please no. UOs signal to me that it's almost Friday.

JEPES1348

As long as the result is a safe and healthy baby and mom, I don't care too much about delivery style. I'm not one of those women who would mourn a failed birth plan. I had PROM with LO, so she arrived abruptly med free, and the pain suck pretty badly, IMO. And I also have a high pain tolerance. I always wanted a vaginal birth over a c/s initially, because I've already had 2 major surgeries, which have left some pretty nice scars (one going vertically down my cleavage- so that's awesome placement for a young woman).

My UO is I cringe when people don't use adverbs as they should. "Drive safe," NO, it's "drive safeLY."

nanabanana06

We had a sub use a permanent marker on a smart board accidentally once. It was pretty funny. Only the math wing had them. So a total of 5 teachers had them.

flummadiddle85

unaveragejane said:

I feel like I should confess that I did so love my SmartBoard when I was teaching. I was the only SpEd teacher that had one for a long time, and I got it bc I went to the training sessions on my own time when a lot of others skipped it or grumbled about wasting their personal time. I felt like I earned that puppy, and my kids loved it. I'm pretty sure I will be completely tech-stupid by the time I get back in the classroom after 4 years off.

I don't think that's bad. I just think it's bad when admin/parents seem to think that technology is a must, or that it will fix ineffective teaching, or when incorporating technology starts to trump other more important priorities in the school. 

Since I teach music, maybe I just feel more strongly that I don't need technology in order to teach. There's nothing that's going to replace the time that my students will learn by doing/singing/playing/dancing/etc., and nothing that will replace them listening and hearing live singing/playing/performance. There are a lot of neat tools out there technologically speaking, but that's all they are. Tools. And many of them have their own shortcomings too. 

I'm sure that carries over into other subject areas as well. 

My point was just that technology is not the end all be all in education. And sometimes I feel like it's pushed a little too much, or there's a push to get a laptop or iPad to every kid. None of that fixes any other problems the teachers and students face.