In a message of Thu, 14 Aug 2008 08:31:56 PDT, "kirby urner" writes: >I wonder if anyone on edu-sig has experience in classrooms that allow >switching any student's screen to become the projected screen, even >dividing up the projected screen among students (as in some Xbox >games). > >I find students don't always like having their privacy disturbed nor >the big brother feel, but understand multi-user game play.
<snip> > >Kirby My limited experience with this is that it makes a big difference if this is set up so that students can decide to show their own work on the big classroom screen, rather than having you as the teacher expose them to the whole class in a manner out of their control. I have seen such systems be completely abused by the students and turned into a way for the good students to excessively brag about their accomplishments to the other good students, and ridicule and heap scorn on those having difficulties. 'Welcome to the shark tank', indeed. Of course discipline has to pretty much have gone to hell before such experiments in cruelty become institutionalised, but if you do the 'travelling lecturer' bit, you may be unfortunate enough to run into such situations. Laura _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig
