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...much more difficult than it does now. All the logistical pieces--getting the students online, figuring out what all the rules were going to be, seeing how students were going to use them ... I think for a lot of the faculty it felt like being a first-year teacher again." Teachers and students don't make a habit of agreeing on things, but they agree on this: computers crash a lot. "Most computers that we have, have glitches," says Shomari, a sixth-grader at Packer. "They break every five minutes! After a while, you have no care whatsoever for your...
...teaches humanities. "I mean, CD drives were popping out, the plugs were not working, there were battery problems. It wasn't software; it was really basic stuff." It also didn't help that these computers were being used by a bunch of energetic young adolescents. As Packer math teacher George Turner puts it, "There is no harder life than in a sixth-grader's backpack." One lesson the faculty learned fast was that if you're going to base your lesson plan on the computers, have a backup plan. If you don't, when one kid's laptop crashes...
Classes at Packer are undeniably different, but if you can see past the strangeness, you will see some remarkable things. Drop by Mr. Rush's senior art-history class some morning. Rush--a dapper, manic teacher who claims he understands absolutely nothing about wireless technology--leads his students through a brisk review before an exam, pulling images of Greek urns off the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website. He makes extensive use of what's called a Smart Board, a high-tech blackboard that throws a giant version of Rush's laptop screen on the wall. It's touch-sensitive...
...rule, wi-fi users tend to spend more time in Starbucks--about 45 minutes per average customer. Bob Macala, 61, says he is at the Piper's Alley store every weekday from 8:30 a.m. until noon and then sometimes in the evenings as well. The retired English teacher is working on a novel and poring over his stock portfolio. He's even made some wi-fi friends, mostly other retirees who hang out at Starbucks and trade stocks online...
...middle school U.S. history teacher, I cannot cover the early 1800s or the Civil War without hearing Professor Gienapp’s kind and understated voice. He brought out “the better angels of our nature” in every minute of his teaching...