School
by Dr. Pants on Aug.24, 2007, under Norway
I spoke in a past post about the Norwegian Government ‘giving’ each student a laptop by next year. Well, with a little more information, I found out another interesting thing about it. It turns out that for three years (and correct me if I am wrong) the students must pay 800 kroner, roughly $120 for them. Still not a bad deal eh? The idea is to go digital with most aspects of learning. Papers, tests, exercises will be done online. What I like the most is that one computer offered is a Mac. Sweet.
I am riding high on the ‘ol tech trail. This is what I dreamed about for years. The idea that I can teach using technology is something I would pay to do… Now, it’s not that I believe that technology will cure all ills. It’s just that, given today’s world, it makes sense. My true choice would be to sit in the woods and teach, using all that we have around us to gain knowledge. Seriously! Living on the land, and being a teacher, would probably teach any child the fundamentals plus much much more.
Students now are visual. They want to interact and feel connected to what they are doing. This is what I aim to do this year. My outline for the year is basic now, but with creativity as my guide, I hope to really slam these kids with knowledge. I know it sounds a little dumb but, I want to have a year that will make others look and say, ” Wow. That guy’s teaching is fucking awesome.”
And now… your picture Zen.
August 25th, 2007 on 7:06 am
Well, if they say ” Wow. That guy’s teaching is fucking awesome.”,
it’s probably because you’re an ex-American. God bless America. While Norway sucks oil from the land, gather your students and sit out in the woods and teach your little commies about the land you hollow beneath them ( a very important truth you norwegians don’t really address critically- why?). Let them know about the great Western land than furnishes those Mac’s (and most of the worlds best technology) , and ask them to give thanks- for America is good. Ask them to thank America for standing up in an uncertain world, rather than being a small anonymous critic that thinks it knows better but doesn’t have the means or ability to back ANY policy.
We (those living in and contributing to America) are not perfect, in most cases flawed or disturbed, but we rise every morning (don’t bitch about holidays we don’t have) and get shit done. It’s very simple. Some DO, some DON’T. WE DO. USA mother fucker- the best thing going.
August 25th, 2007 on 7:14 am
NOW THATS ONE TO GROW ON
August 25th, 2007 on 8:09 am
Dude, Is your penis really that small?
August 26th, 2007 on 2:17 am
Speaking of little penises, why do you feel so happy to be a great fucking example of American teacherism? I’ve been a teacher in the U.S. on several occasions, and I have found the profession to be sordid, dimwitted, and hopelessly enamored of its own questionable importance.
I still encourage everyone I meet to built their own bomb and deploy it wherever they suspect it might result in the most entertaining audience comprehension.
Like you, I encourage total adoption of the latest technology, because I understand what 6 million years of human presence on the planet combined with 10 thousand years of human remnants implies.
I like it here. God loves me. Fuck the rest of you.
Osama bin getting ready to fly a RC up your dumb fucking ass
August 26th, 2007 on 4:22 pm
I’m lookin but I see no reference to being a great example of American Teacherism.
One thing I do know… I have a chance to do, in school here, stuff I could never do back in the good ol USA. School here is more like a school and less like a prison. I have 13-15 students in class, not 30. Technology here is pushed for everyone, not just those living in wealthy areas.
As for the importance of my profession, is this in doubt? I hardly think so, since every asshole basically does or doesn’t do because of a teacher.
August 27th, 2007 on 6:29 am
Good luck, duder. I think everyone has a right to delusion. I know I am deluded into thinking that I have lived to retirement age without having found one fucking think worth teaching to anyone, beyond this: Americans are assholes, and they can thank their teachers for getting them to perfect their craft.