Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Hi-Tech High School ... ah, the life of Pranks
The New York Times has an amusing article today about the joy hi-tech toys can bring to students, and the embarrasing effects of the generation gap when teachers and principals have no idea what's going on:
The New York Times has an amusing article today about the joy hi-tech toys can bring to students, and the embarrasing effects of the generation gap when teachers and principals have no idea what's going on:
At Stuyvesant High School, the tales are similar. "Someone brought in a universal remote and walked through the halls turning on all the TV's in classrooms," one Stuyvesant junior said. Another student mentioned that when his hair was still long enough to hang past his ears, he could wear small headphones for his MP3 player and listen nonstop. Still another added that her friend often used a minilaser pointer to put a moving red dot on the teacher's backside whenever he turned away from the class. ... George Morgan, an assistant principal who has been at Wagner for three years, at first said: "Cellphones aren't a distraction here since our kids tend to respect the rules. They're pretty serious about learning." But when asked about MP3 players and phones with text messaging, he seemed less certain. "You know what, I am not up to speed on this stuff. Text messaging and all these other things ? I said that it's not happening, but maybe I just don't know."How much fun would a Universal Remote have been at High School? :) The best we ever managed was to move the hands of the clock fifteen minutes forward and get dismissed before the teacher realised he'd been duped! Now you could just reprogram the clock via infra-red or, even better, if the school clocks are networked, hack the network and move them all forward and become the school hero. Ah, finally, the computer-geeks will rule the world ... ;)
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