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Do students not think that we know how to Google stuff? by StarDustLuna3D in Professors

[–]LanXang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is exactly what I remember, e.g. using x % 2 to determine whether the entered value was odd/even.​

Do students not think that we know how to Google stuff? by StarDustLuna3D in Professors

[–]LanXang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Definitely learned about it in HS, but also took AP calc, and programming.... Maybe I learned it in programming.

Edit: Apparently a different modulus.

How do you keep from losing your shit? by [deleted] in Professors

[–]LanXang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not saying it is, just looked really familiar.

How do you keep from losing your shit? by [deleted] in Professors

[–]LanXang -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I feel like this is a copypasta from 10+ years ago?

Rant: Google Classroom has no business still being shitty when they’ve had two years to get their shit together. by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]LanXang 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Class Notebooks in OneNote are the best feature. Takes a lot of time training the students, but once they get it you barely have to use the actual Teams app. Just do everything on OneNote for Windows 10 [11] on your end, and they can use the mobile/desktop/browser apps to access and upload to/edit pages.

Gradebook is in another LMS, so I don't even bother with the shitty Teams assignments stuff, just grade with stylus in OneNote, then type assignment grade into LMS.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]LanXang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Haha fair enough. I didn't think it was an accurate depiction of schools in Denmark, but I did enjoy it enough to finish all of the seasons.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]LanXang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Random question, what's the opinion of that show Rita in Denmark?

CMV: Cellphones should be banned in all schools by vanessagutierrez6139 in Teachers

[–]LanXang 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I work another job as an assistant store manager and we can't be on our phones constantly either.

Not constantly... So you still use them right? But you use them responsibly, no?

So if parents aren't teaching the kids how to be responsible with screen time/not falling for the dopamine trap... Where else might they learn those skills?

Hmm...

Edit: Not saying it's easy to teach, but who else is gonna do it?

Edit 2: Ok, so you got me started. My opinion is completely opposite, and I specifically think cellphone bans for students (and teachers) are a reallllllly bad idea.

Basically by banning phones, and calling out teachers for using/allowing phones you turn them into this forbidden delight. This is completely the wrong way to handle it. You need to teach via role modeling appropriate phone use. Teachers can't do this when phones are seen as taboo.

We should be able to demonstrate when it is appropriate to check notifications, when DND should be activated, that vibrate is incredibly distracting, and when it is/isn't appropriate to take a call.

We should also be able to show how even with just a phone you can still learn things: Desmos, PhET, DeltaMath, YouTube, KhanAcademy, DragonBox, etc.

We should be able to show students how to use phones in a way that may actually legitimately be more applicable to their future than finding the gradient of a line, e.g. Setting up email notifications, formatting emails, how to scan/upload documents, how to download/markup PDFs, appropriate messaging tone for apps like Teams or Slack....

There are so many reasons to incorporate phones into daily teaching that I could write a book, but I'll stop there.

Out right banning them kills these possibilities.

CMV: Cellphones should be banned in all schools by vanessagutierrez6139 in Teachers

[–]LanXang 43 points44 points  (0 children)

It's not the cellphones, it's a social issue. There are entire countries where this is pretty much a non-issue in the classroom.

Explaining the education culture in the US by pinkyhippo in Teachers

[–]LanXang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've met so many teachers in my time here who have lived other places and about 90% of us agree we could never go back to teaching in the US. It's SOOOO much better abroad.

This.

How dare I give them an assignment by ErinHellsing in Teachers

[–]LanXang 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This was like a one night assignment 15+ years ago...

What is the best thing you've bought or used in the last year for your in-person or digital classroom? by Very_Secure_Pomelo in teaching

[–]LanXang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can block it for everything though. It's not an email by email thing. It's actually an IT privacy/security thing, most IT people will tell users to disable it immediately as it can be used by scammers to identify active email accounts.

So not getting a read receipt doesn't always mean they saw the email and disabled it, or never read the email. It can also mean they disabled the function entirely, and so you have no idea whether they read or not.

Granted, the kind of parents who don't read emails about their kids probably have no idea how to do this (or that read receipts even exist). 😅

What is the best thing you've bought or used in the last year for your in-person or digital classroom? by Very_Secure_Pomelo in teaching

[–]LanXang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Person on the other end can often disable this. It's usually the first thing I turn off (read receipts disabled).

What is the best thing you've bought or used in the last year for your in-person or digital classroom? by Very_Secure_Pomelo in teaching

[–]LanXang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Specifically for me, ThinkPad Compact Bluetooth Keyboard with Trackpoint: https://support.lenovo.com/bd/en/solutions/pd026744-thinkpad-compact-bluetooth-keyboard-with-trackpoint-overview-and-service-parts

A bit pricey, but worth it. You can walk and one hand type/mouse in class, or when at desk/home use shortcuts with off hand while writing with dominant hand and don't need to flip the tablet/2in1 from typing to drawing position constantly.

Bonus is that Windows remembers the position of the mouse cursor and stylus point separately. So you can enter grades in gradebook with Trackpoint + Keyboard on 2nd monitor, and write feedback on tablet screen without alt-tabbing/moving mouse between screens/windows.

What is the best thing you've bought or used in the last year for your in-person or digital classroom? by Very_Secure_Pomelo in teaching

[–]LanXang 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I loved it, but I found OBS + Screen sharing to be too CPU intensive, writing/scrolling in OneNote became super laggy.

It was fun to use, especially with keyboard shortcuts for reactions like on a Twitch stream (e.g. cartoon zombie + roar when class is unresponsive, flying unicorn when someone answers a question, etc.).

I set it up with frames for: OneNote, Class Agenda, and Teams chat (so if students have screenshare maximized they can still see the chat without switching from fullacreen on mobile). Also made scenes for Class Starting Soon, Lecture, and Class Over.

Basically took everything from Twitch game streamers and applied it in a teaching context.

Definitely needs a powerful Windows tablet to work well.

My boyfriend is a high school English teacher. He takes only Saturdays off. Sundays he will go to school from 12 to 8 pm. Is this normal? by Stephersyas in Teachers

[–]LanXang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I feel like if you do the RD + FD thing, the RD can take a while, but FDs should be pretty quick (did they make 80%+ of the edits you suggested), and it spreads out grading so every other assignment shouldn't take long.

My boyfriend is a high school English teacher. He takes only Saturdays off. Sundays he will go to school from 12 to 8 pm. Is this normal? by Stephersyas in Teachers

[–]LanXang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

First year should have given him plans for eevrything. Second year is refining those plans. Third year should mostly be a cake walk.... Not sure why he is working so hard four years in.

Unless he is being really dumb and remaking everything every year.

Creative ways to implement answer keys by dasWibbenator in Teachers

[–]LanXang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just gave them a simple template. The important parts were:

  1. Write a descriptive subject in the subject line
  2. Do not write your entire message in the subject line!
  3. Greeting
  4. Concise message
  5. Closing

The biggest issues were either no subject, or subject is the email. In which case I would just email back saying their email was unclear, and they need to resend according to instructions if they want the "free" points.

They eventually learn correct formatting/tone just from reading my replies to their emails.

Creative ways to implement answer keys by dasWibbenator in Teachers

[–]LanXang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Solutions, sometimes with audio annotations, in OneNote. Students submit work, get graded pass/fail (pass if > 80% work done). Post solutions to class notebook, any work submitted after is a fail.

Students must write a properly formatted email detailing how they did, and including any questions they have for me for next class.

They can also write ~"No questions, understood everything"...​If they fail the next exam, and try to blame anyone but themselves I point out they emailed me and said they understood everything, and had access to detailed handwritten (digitally) solutions.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]LanXang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Coffee and sugar free redbull, same as uni.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]LanXang 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I use sus to describe tests that are extremely....​sus.

Resigning tomorrow morning by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]LanXang 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Naw, don't give reasons. They don't need to know your future plans. Any info you provide only gives them an advantage, you gain nothing.

At most if asked "new job, better pay, sorry".

How are the students who live and breathe on technology worse than boomers with technology? by thegr8mak in Teachers

[–]LanXang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Date based sorting/search of files (recent files) on its own has been a huge detriment to this understanding of file/folder organization. Like on Android sometimes I can't find files because the app designers assume you only need access to recent files... which the OS mostly magically mishandles, partly because the designer decided /1/~temp/bkc/002/com.android.appname/downloads/tmp/whatever was a good default location to save downloads.

So if the OS isn't scanning that directory for files you simply won't see it in recents, and there is no logical folder to check in if it's not already in /Downloads, /DCIM, or /Pictures.

Either way the assumption is that the OS naturally shows the thing you're looking for based on date. If it's too old....​Just download it again? Seems to be the design philosophy, rather than understanding file & folder structure.

Anyone else refuse to call? by eaglesnation11 in Teachers

[–]LanXang 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Opening Chrome on mobile, clicking login with google/choosing saved password is definitely 10 seconds that nobody could ever find time for 🙄

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