No matter how crappy it is, it's still better than the previous generation

My previous post, "This patience is getting too bitter to eat" appears to be the nadir. Following that frustration I announced to my class that I would no longer answer "technical" questions. Wi-Fi doesn't work? Ok. Fix it. The file won't download? Alright, what else is new? As I said before, I can't be handling these situations when I should be focused on the lesson objectives. And it's not like I have any sage advice. My answer is typically "do it again".

Well, it seems to have worked. For the most part I think this is because the students have made the adjustments. But it is a relief that I'm no longer constantly harassed with technical questions,  and when I do get the technical questions they're real bafflers. I'm the one thinking WT*? That shouldn't be?

And we had another quiz. 0 problems. Well, except for the 2 students who didn't bother to submit. One I tracked down before the end of the day. The other one I discovered when I was showing my visiting retired-teacher mom the wonders of the IPad over the weekend on our trip down south. She had a rejoinder: "In my day..." Ya, I heard this one before. Carbon copies, blah blah blah. Anyways, as for the quiz NP, we fixed it on Monday. I suppose the concept of "submit" is new to some. But at least I didn't need to use the paper copies I printed out made carbon copies of..

Darn it, next time print carbon copy them out one-sided so at least you can re-use them as scrap paper. Another learned lesson. 

Learning, learning, learning.