This entry starts off on a personal note. I will say I am beyond excited, because I was able to speak with the in-laws and all is well with them, but they had something to share with me…a surprise! They wanted to send me to go see my husband over in Texas. As most the readers know, I have not seen him since he deployed for military training over five months ago. In all this excitement, I was able to speak to my father-in-law…a very rare privlage. Why do I say that? I more than admire him. His intelligence is so vast beyond what I have ever known any other persons (including all my professors). A short history on him would include: engineer for the Navy, Chief Engineer for GE (retired), and is now a physics teacher for a private high school (just so he’s not bored). He’s a vey silent man who sits and observes his surroundings. I thought he hated me when I first met him, but when we discovered we had a technology connection…it was smooth sailing.
That connection although, may have been compromised as of recent. While speaking with him last night, the school he teaches with is practically all paperless and every student carries a Mac Book /Pro (The screen on the Mac can be changed by just tapping -software- the side of the screen; therefore, many of the students are not even on the class sites). As an educator, a professional in engineering (submarines), and keeping a company like GE together, it is irritating when the students are all just lazely touching the side of their Macs as he walks about the room giving his lesson. The amount of disrespect is very annoying. I tried to find more information on the school’s site about their current technology trend, but they do not recognize it as an important enough value to make it a point in which to brag about. Unlike Kentucky, technology in California private schools is a little more readily available and not as special. Apparently the need to site it on the internet is not necessary.
One other oversite on the whole from “good” to worse in technology movement…the Mac keyboard. Their keys are soft coated; therefore, when a semester of teaching is over, and you have finished using a decent amount of time on the dry erase board, your Mac keys are also black. That was just the educator’s complaint that was thrown in there. There is a solution to this, magic crayola remover!!!
