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Reddit mentions of Wonderland: A Year in the Life of an American High School
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I'm not a teacher, but I left highschool just as cell phones and ipods where very popular (2006) Don't think the ipad was out yet. EVERYONE had an mp3 player and usually had it in during class. if they didn't, they certainly had a cell phone that they thought they were slyly using to text or play games. Some kids even had those special ring tones that only kids can hear (which annoyed the kids actually trying to learn rather than the teacher)
Otherwise i was pretty happy with the technology and education in my school. i went to Pennsbury in PA, someone even wrote a book about it, but it was a few years before my time i believe.
http://www.amazon.com/Wonderland-Year-Life-American-School/dp/0871139170
As i got into 9th, they were doing renovations on the two highschools, one was 9&10 and the other was 11&12. There was an access road connecting the two for busses and the occasional walker. In 11th they started an addition to the 9&10 building and started giving students classes on both "campuses" so we had to either walk all the way over to the other building or catch a bus (with still only 5 minutes between classes. But I digress. The point was, they weren't hurting too much for money and had decent technology classes.
We got to pick electives, and i took all the computer courses they offered. By 12th I'd taken Microsoft Office classes, Visual Basic, basic website design, computer repair, etc etc. i even got to take a robotics class where we could make things with legos and kinex and could write programs for robotic arms to do certain tasks. I liked my basic computer class, they took the old computers and let students take them apart to see how they worked, and you had to disassemble them and put them back together, you were graded on how quickly you could do it, and if it posts (most of them couldn't do much else than post) By then my brother had already taught me how to take apart a PC so i did it in 5 mins and got to screw around on the computer for the rest of the class. i also had a teacher i'd had for two classes prior and she knew how i worked. Just leave me alone to do my work, when i'm finished let me read or whatever and i won't interfere with your class. So we had classes with desktops and some with laptops, and all assignments were to be typed etc etc.
Sorry for the rant, I took pain medication and it makes you talkitive, even if your talking to yourself since a grand total of maybe one person will read this entire thing.
TL;DR: My school handled technology pretty well, in both providing it, and prohibiting it when it disturbed learning. Ranted about my High School a bit because i took some pain meds which make me chatty. Have a wonderful day, Reddit!