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FINAL BLOG POST - OUR "DAILY TRIPLE" (DUE 12/1).
This week I would like you to use your imagination. You have just won the lottery and will leave your teaching post immediately to travel around the world. As you leave your keys you meet your replacement. You are asked to give this new teacher just ONE piece of advice. What would that be, and why? Enjoy your world expedition!

Blog Post - Week 7
This past week in my own teaching I felt a little disconnected which prompts my question to you, "What was the moment (or moments) when I felt most disconnected or disengaged as a teacher - the moment(s) I said to myself, I'm just going through the motions here?"

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 6
For the past couple of weeks you have experienced asynchronous online learning (doing modules by yourself). Previously this semester you have experienced synchronous online learning (all together in the Collaborate room). Which do you think is more effective and why do you think that? Which do you like better, and why?

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 5
This week we have what we call "open mic." You can write a post about anything related to your teaching that you would like responses from your classmates.

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 4
Here is this week's question: "What was the event that most took me surprise this week - and event that shook me up, caught me off guard, gave me a jolt, or made me unexpectedly happy?"

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 3
Please write a post about the following question, "In thinking about my past week teaching what is one thing I would do differently, and why?"

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 2
Please write a post about the following question, " In thinking about my teaching activities this past week, of what do I feel most proud? Why?"

Fall Semester 2016 Blog Post - Week 1
Describe something you used in your program in the first weeks of school that you learned in the summer NTI program. How did it work? Did it get you off to a stronger start than last year?

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Kids These Days

I'm amazed at the number of high school students who cannot make change!! Last week, for HOSA Week, we had a daily bake sale. I typically let the students do everything, but I chose to sit up there with them (and it was a good thing!). They couldn't even make change for a $5 bill! They would hand the money to me and tell me they needed change but didn't know how much to give them back. I was appalled!! Then on Saturday, our ROTC hosted a yard sale. I spent $3.50 and gave her a $5. She couldn't count the change back! What is wrong with kids these days that they can't even do simple math!?!? It makes me even more aware of how I can rip off or get ripped off easily at McDonald's! (Which, by the way, I'm a very honest person and won't rip them off, nor will I let them rip me off!)

Have a great week and I'll see ya Saturday!

P.S. My kids are loving the blog! I have received some AWESOME responses to my post this week! Check it out! www.healthcareone.blogspot.com or www.healthcaretwo.blogspot.com

5 comments:

Connie said...

Julie, I know exactly what you are talking about! Kids CANNOT do any kind of simple math without the use of a calculator. They have no clue how to count up to give change back. If the bill comes to $2.35 and the person gives you $5,
count up:.37, .38, .39, .40, .50, .75 etc. I may as well have been speaking a foreign language.

Kids can't tell time either. I had to teach how to tell time on a regular clock first before I could teach them military time.

Why are they not getting these basic things in math class? Where have we dropped the ball? Elementary School? Middle School?

Connie said...

Your kids blogs are GREAT!!! I've enjoyed reading them. You have done a GREAT job with this!

Jessie H said...

Awesome class blogs. Do you find that the students are writing more on the blog than they would in class?

Julie J. said...

Yes, they write more on the blog and, for some, they write MUCH better than they would if given paper and a pen. I'm still trying to figure it out since they don't use spell check. Of course, there are the few that still use "u" and other slang "words" such as that, but for the most part, it's been a positive experience! :)

Victoria said...

Julie, since the technology age has been in existence students have traded doing basic math on paper and use calculators all the time. This is not good. We have upgraded in one way and down graded in another. These days, students take for granted the luxuries they have to make them even more successful, but yet they find excuses as to why they CAN'T do their work. We need to go back to the GOLDEN ages and make them do mental math. We are failing our children.