1to1+Behaviors

This is a page for listing behaviors that sometimes come up in a 1:1 classroom (laptops or tablets) that can cause teachers angst. Feel free to also list suggestions for dealing with said behaviors.

Some conversation starters:

Mom just emailed a student that her grandmother is back in the hospital and that she should go home with her next door neighbor until her mom can get home. I put this one first to remind all of us that students have real lives. This is the kind of message that used to come from the office and involved (we hope) an adult sensitively picking the right time and place to communicate the message. Now, with 1:1 and email, parents email this type of message to students instead. A major World of Warcraft crisis has erupted and must be dealt with immediately. This requires bypassing school filters, ignoring all class instruction, etc.

Class is boring. Rather than doodle, why not play a game?

You just got an IM that your (boy/girl) friend was seen leaving campus with his/her ex.

Students record rather dull classroom lectures and post them online.

On the day a unit project is due, a student explains that he/she lost a project because his/her computer crashed.

A student searches for an image and finds something inappropriate which he/she emails to other students.

Week after prom (or any other social event) students spend hours on Facebook sharing pictures. Although this happens everday, the week after prom is especially brutal.

Those "cute" cursor packages make it very frustrating when you need to help a student with his/her machine. "Which part of the dragon is the tip?" (Downloading of random stuff in general could be an issue.)

Students who have a free period or on break spend the time watching bandwidth hogging videos. Students in class have difficulty accessing the web because bandwidth is sluggish.

Cords everywhere, battery issues, ... Students going without technolgy because they have no juice.

The difference between "borrowing forever" someone's power adapter/stylus and stealing someone's power adapter/stylus. There is NONE!