Saturday
Oct062007
Why I love tech-using kids
Saturday, October 6, 2007 at 06:34AM A recent note from one of our techs to her staff...
Many of you who have new computers have mentioned to me that strange messages [most of which were not very nice] are showing up when you are displaying from your computer to a smartboard or a screen. This is occurring because your computer has a technology called Bluetooth active on the computer. Students can then use their cell phones or PDAs or any technology with bluetooth on to send messages to your computer which are then displayed to your screen or smartboard.
To turn off Bluetooth:...
Reminds me of an incident from a few years ago when televisions in one of our schools at seemingly random intervals turned off and changed channels. We took them into the shop, called the electrician, etc. Eventually we discovered that a kid had a watch with a built in TV remote.
And all we had were spitwads.
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Reader Comments (6)
Priceless! We had a similar problem with a child with a remote that he regularly used to open and close the CD drive. His teacher was convinced the IT suite was haunted and no one really believed her till one day we caught him :-)
I love it! I discovered my mac had bluetooth and defaults to discoverable last school year when a student with a Helio sent a message asking to pair with my macbook. He then got scared that he was in trouble but instead spent the next 20 minutes or so showing the wonders of bluetooth. I have however, since set my mac to "undiscoverable"!
Dee,
I've always said that the teachers who survive will see themselves as "co-learners." This is a great example. Thanks!
Doug
I agree, this is priceless! I've spent a few minutes googling and have yet to find out how to do this. Kids, I love their ingenuity.
We just open a parent portal and found that kids were keeping their parents from accessing it by adding the site to their browsers blocked list - Igneous!
I love it, Hank! Kind of like parents needing their kids to install their home filtering software.
And all I could do as a kid was get to the mailbox before my report card came home!
Doug