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(...) I am happy being a teacher--I get to spend my days with the students, not in meetings with other adults all day. I don't think you would like being stuck in an office so much.
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Since you are a teacher... Do you agree with this: http://blog.ck12.org/blog/bid/357017/Throw-Away-Your-Traditional-Textbooks-Go-Digital?

I love paper books. I have lost and given a lot of them, but there are some I´d like to keep to my grave.

[h=1]CK-12 Foundation Blog[/h] [h=3]Throw Away Your Traditional Textbooks - Go Digital![/h] Posted by Laura Ringer on Mon, Dec 16, 2013

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We all know the pain of lugging around heavy textbooks full of outdated information.
 
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Goodness, you have friends from all over! Is the girl in the video your daughter? She is adorable, I love her smile.
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She is not mine. She adopted me in her love.
I agree with you... She´s counting each day to Feb 14th, because of her birthday.
 
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secularhermit said:
Since you are a teacher... Do you agree with this: http://blog.ck12.org/blog/bid/357017/Throw-Away-Your-Traditional-Textbooks-Go-Digital?

I love paper books. I have lost and given a lot of them, but there are some I´d like to keep to my grave.

CK-12 Foundation Blog

Throw Away Your Traditional Textbooks - Go Digital!

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We all know the pain of lugging around heavy textbooks full of outdated information.
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I agree and disagree--my reasons are all personal. Being digital would be so much easier.....students can have all of their work on a tablet or laptop, we would waste less paper, the students can send their work to me and I will have a digital copy that would be easier for me to grade. And, lugging those textbooks around is a real pain.

On the downside, it takes very responsible children to take care of this technology. If you could see my classroom set of calculators and the damage that has been done to them, you would cry over the waste. And, there is the problem of the student actually keeping up with the laptop or tablet. If they have homework, there is no guarantee they will remember to bring the technology back to school the next day. Then, they do not have any of their work for any of their classes.

I know that we are moving toward using technology all the time in all classes. I only worry that they will replace me with a robot and then I will be out of a job:(
 
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She is not mine. She adopted me in her love.
I agree with you... She´s counting each day to Feb 14th, because of her birthday.
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God bless her. She is adorable and looks so happy. Tell her happy birthday from your friend in the states.

I have a little boy at church that has adopted me in his love. I have been sick with the flu and missed church last Sunday. You should see the card he made me, it brought tears to my eyes.
 
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Post it here! (Please)

Those who are southern (enough) would enjoy reading it.

I had one Alexangerla gave me, but I passed it to Josh´s hands, because she made (herself) an envelope for Joshua, and I love my children fought (and asked) I gave my surname to their sister Alex.

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God bless her. She is adorable and looks so happy. Tell her happy birthday from your friend in the states.

I have a little boy at church that has adopted me in his love. I have been sick with the flu and missed church last Sunday. You should see the card he made me, it brought tears to my eyes.
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I imagine those tears of JOY.

Somtimes I think I miss the time when we will be a child, a second time, when the Lord comes.
 
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I agree and disagree--my reasons are all personal. Being digital would be so much easier.....students can have all of their work on a tablet or laptop, we would waste less paper, the students can send their work to me and I will have a digital copy that would be easier for me to grade. And, lugging those textbooks around is a real pain.

On the downside, it takes very responsible children to take care of this technology. If you could see my classroom set of calculators and the damage that has been done to them, you would cry over the waste. And, there is the problem of the student actually keeping up with the laptop or tablet. If they have homework, there is no guarantee they will remember to bring the technology back to school the next day. Then, they do not have any of their work for any of their classes.

I know that we are moving toward using technology all the time in all classes. I only worry that they will replace me with a robot and then I will be out of a job:(
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I was a student before I planned to be a teacher... I knew what cheating is and disliked someone wanted me to cheat on those exams I wanted to be close to the teacher´s desk to avoid being molested (although I cheated a couple of times).

How do you feel some homeworks are entirely copied, with same mistakes handwritten (or copied pasted)?

I left the Univ for seen I wasn´t made to dealt with popular cheating. He! He! :rolleyes:
 
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The whole cheating thing drives me crazy. I was the kid that everyone wanted to cheat off of when I was a student.

If a kid cheats on their homework in my class, they are only hurting themselves. They have to be able to pass the tests I give, if they cheat on their homework, they will most likely fail the test. If they fail all of their tests, they will probably fail the class.
 
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Cheating -here- is the "fashion"... It is a problem when I had to be part of a group we were asked to work as team mates... I´m used to work alone.

Do you ask your pupils to make groups to work, as teams?

Those movies I have seen does not show that now?

I´m afraid I´m spoiling olderandwiser´s thread... Sorry, young lady! :(
 
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I am required to have my students do some work in groups. I constantly move around the room while they are doing that and the grades are given individually--if only one person is doing the work, that student gets the grade. If the entire group is working, they all get the grade. My kiddos know that I am strict but fair.
 
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@ Toska

WoW!

That made me feel happy! Those are real values you are teaching.

I hope your character be cloned on those kids you teach (and lead).
 
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@ Toska

WoW!

That made me feel happy! Those are real values you are teaching.

I hope your character be cloned on those kids you teach (and lead).
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All I can do it try. There is nothing better than having a student come to me at the end of the year and thank me for teaching them. That makes all the other stuff worth it:)
 
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All I can do it try. There is nothing better than having a student come to me at the end of the year and thank me for teaching them. That makes all the other stuff worth it:)
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When I came back to Ccs, one of my friends, a retired teacher, was about to meet many of her mates in the school she largely worked, because now that school is 70 years old. She knows many of her friends have passed away and MANY of those she gave classes and her good examples, are alive and -somehow- they keep on seen or finding her on the streets in Caracas city (Ccs). She has told me many of those stories YOU, one day, will tell your loved ones, because teaching has an emotional pay no money paid.

You have seen their eyes, their joy (their sorrow) and, sometimes, you have known those children their real parents never have the chance to look deeep in their hearts.

Teachers are not well paid (sometimes) but the love your enjoyed, not having them as your real children, that is above money and it surpasses any value world would promise to give you.

I tell it because I was a student (and tried to be a teacher).
 
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