Currently it's all hate. The internet at school is lousy at best, making it impossible to take attendance or put any grades in the grade book. The poor students who are expected to use the 30 computers in my room every day have to fight slowness and the inability to load anything valuable. That is, if their machines even turn on.
If you couldn't already tell, I am extremely annoyed, and the lack of technology is wearing my nerves thin. I could go old school and make my students do everything with pencil and paper - which I have done to some extent - but whether we like it or not, technology is here to stay, and my students must gain mastery of different tools to be successful in life. Most of them also learn this way best. Maybe it is a problem with our society, and we rely too much of machines, but I can't change the nature of that. I have to meet my students where they are. Which I am right now...at a place called frustration.
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