When classrooms go fully digital, kids can no longer discreetly talk to each other during class by passing notes.
6d 6h ago by sh.itjust.works/u/DeathByBigSad in showerthoughts
Cuz no paper anymore....
They've already found a way around this with their laptops. They figured out they can use a shared Google doc for notes.
But no privacy tho :(
Considering how frequently kids got caught passing notes and had to read them in front of the class when I was in school, that wasn't exactly a highly private form of communication.
Few schools have an IT department large enough to police all of the Google documents for note passing.
As an online teacher, I can tell you Discord takes care of that.
We used to use net send
Super fun on computer lab day to both communicate with friends and randomly annoy the crap out of others.
Oh boy, that brings me back... After they blocked net send, well, let's just say my school board's internal single sign-on had an SQL injection vulnerability and plaintext passwords...
Btw, story time:
I remember messing around with ciphers like a=z b=y etc... and I share this with another kid. We'd use rubber bands to slingshot folded up paper notes written in cipher to each other during class and in the afterschool program. Like I just get bored and wanna talk to someone, and we both spoke Mandarin so we sort of "connected" with each other quickly. We'd write "fuck you" using this cipher on the whiteboard and we'd laugh... cuz us kids being silly kids...
I accidentaly hit one of the afterschool program staff with those slingshotted "paper bullets", he got mad at me and I got in trouble and I was forced to sit on the carpet while everyone just glanced at me like: "ooh this thoublemaker kid again"
I remember just crying lol
Have you forgotten about DMs and instant messengers? Email?
And then they're less likely to be caught passing them, too.