This is a really good idea. Perhaps this is what should be happening in the first place rather than resorting to direct legal enforcement, which can be problematic and damaging, especially for children.

Technically, no. In fact, if you want to be a stickler for details, it was actually 8 sentences, not five, and it was absolutely longer than a minute, but I encouraged the class to help him. It’s a 1-2 week ESL program in the Mediterranean, and he was an Italian 12 year old who likely signed up for girls on beaches than speak English. The Italian government is apparently paying students’ ways into programs like the one I teach at in order to improve general English proficiency across the country, so we end up with a lot of kids who just come to party.

You’re right on that I should have taken his phone away sooner, but he was the weakest student in class. Three of his sentences were the same sentence said more and more poorly each time. Not sure what he thought he was getting away with there. Of course I did a peer correction check of his presentation and had him do it again.

As a teacher, I use publisher all the time to make prints and materials for lessons. I’m still learning new tricks with it. And having Affinity Photo integrated means I click a tab and can better toy with images without having to swap the application.

I usually let my students keep their devices, but I had one student… I had asked everyone to write 5 sentences about a made up place. The kid was on his phone, showing things to his classmates while assuring me he was doing his work. Everyone finished but him, with nothing. I let every other student share their answers first to buy him time, then when it was his turn, nothing. I took away his phone and he had it done in less than a minute.

The facts could be there, but people have good reason to be reluctant to go looking for them. Kids are dumb. They do stupid things all the time when there’s nobody there to tell them how stupid and dangerous it is. Their brains soak up as much as possible, and when they hit puberty, their brains start sloughing off what it thinks is excess, and suddenly they think it’s a good idea to ride a bike off a waterfall or some shit. Secretly opening an onlyfans for stupid easy money from pervs seems hardly a stretch to me if you knew you could avoid being caught.

Or parents who exploit their kids for easy, filthy money.

I’m stoked on reverie. I hear it’s more Crossbell 3 than Cold Steel V, and the crossbell arc has been my favorite so far.

I’m at chapter 2 of CSIV, having Reverie and Daybreak 1 to get through, I might be ready for DB2 when it launches.

I didn’t even know there was a desktop app. I’ve been using a safari PWA. Aren’t those sandboxed?

The internet was so fast you must have missed it.

I was just talking about dealing with .doc files, but you are free interpret that however you want, buddy.

Life sure is terrible when people enjoy things you don’t, isn’t it?

Employer: Print out this .doc and bring it to work. Me, with a Mac: alright, here you go. Employer: why did you print it like this? Me: that’s what you sent me.

Betcha one of them is actually working just fine.

I’m not French, but I am a teacher and I want in on this. Love getting materials sent to me from Microsoft teams accounts that refuse to let me actually access anything. Cute web UI, now can you send me the actual document instead of a picture of it in a browser?

They will still be selling user data whether you opt for the ad supported tier or not, so get used to that.

Well I suppose because it’s just too much a hot topic right now, AI probably should be exempted from discussions on privacy concerns. Good point.

I think you could eliminate all tracked advertising across the internet and the losses would be much smaller than Google would have you believe.

We’re just going to put this extra window on your car, and if thieves find a way to use our window to break into your car, it’s not our fault your shit got stolen.