Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
1.1 MB's to download this:
to put under my signature block in my work email.
I have no idea what is in those 1.1 MB's or however many MB's can be zipped down to 1.1, but I doubt it is anything I want. For some reason, my district is encouraging it. I just screenshoted the logo, as I did above and put that in my signature block. We'll see of the campus computer guru calls me out on it.
I think it is shady that a school disctrict become a promoter of a specific brand name. I get that they're moving to tech for teaching, and it was marginally better than no school at all during the scamdemic. I get that when you adopt computer technology, you are forced to make a pretty much binary choice between Apple and Windows.
But for government entity in a country that - in theory - discourages monopolies, wouldn't Windows have been the obvious choice, since it would not limit your vendors?
Of interests only to teachers:
In case you're interested, the "certification" to be an "Apple Teacher" consists of six quizes to take after going through their video lessons. The quizes have unlimited retakes. The first two quizes took me forever. I'm paid as a teacher, but I'm a behavior specialist who relies on old-school Skinner methods. I'm not in the classroom so I'm not that familiar with the teaching tools.
Anyway, the lessons were completely confusing and no help. Finally, I took the third quiz before I looked at the lesson, thinking the lesson might make sense if I knew what the questions would be. Passed the first time. I only had to retake one of the modules. Obviously Apple doesn't know much about how to teach, but they sure are good at getting schools to hook the next gen on their products.
to put under my signature block in my work email.
I have no idea what is in those 1.1 MB's or however many MB's can be zipped down to 1.1, but I doubt it is anything I want. For some reason, my district is encouraging it. I just screenshoted the logo, as I did above and put that in my signature block. We'll see of the campus computer guru calls me out on it.
I think it is shady that a school disctrict become a promoter of a specific brand name. I get that they're moving to tech for teaching, and it was marginally better than no school at all during the scamdemic. I get that when you adopt computer technology, you are forced to make a pretty much binary choice between Apple and Windows.
But for government entity in a country that - in theory - discourages monopolies, wouldn't Windows have been the obvious choice, since it would not limit your vendors?
Of interests only to teachers:
In case you're interested, the "certification" to be an "Apple Teacher" consists of six quizes to take after going through their video lessons. The quizes have unlimited retakes. The first two quizes took me forever. I'm paid as a teacher, but I'm a behavior specialist who relies on old-school Skinner methods. I'm not in the classroom so I'm not that familiar with the teaching tools.
Anyway, the lessons were completely confusing and no help. Finally, I took the third quiz before I looked at the lesson, thinking the lesson might make sense if I knew what the questions would be. Passed the first time. I only had to retake one of the modules. Obviously Apple doesn't know much about how to teach, but they sure are good at getting schools to hook the next gen on their products.
