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The Hottest Chat App for Teens is Google Docs (theatlantic.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: As more and more laptops find their way into middle and high schools, educators are using Google Docs to do collaborative exercises and help students follow along with the lesson plan. The students, however, are using it to organize running conversations behind teachers' backs. Teens told me they use Google Docs to chat just about any time they need to put their phone away but know their friends will be on computers. Sometimes they'll use the service's live chat function, which doesn't open by default, and which many teachers don't even know exists. Or, they'll take advantage of the fact that Google allows users to highlight certain phrases or words, then comment on them via a pop-up box on the right side: They'll clone a teacher's shared Google document, then chat in the comments, so it appears to the causal viewer that they're just making notes on the lesson plan. If a teacher approaches to take a closer look, they can click the "Resolve" button and the entire thread will disappear.
If the project isn't a collaborative one, kids will just create a shared document where they'll chat line by line in what looks like a paragraph of text. "People will just make a new page and talk in different fonts so you know who is who," Skyler said. "I had one really good friend and we were in different homerooms. So, we'd email each other a doc and would just chat about whatever was going on." At the end of class, they just delete a doc or resolve all the comments. Rarely does anyone save them the way previous generations may have stored away paper notes from friends.
If the project isn't a collaborative one, kids will just create a shared document where they'll chat line by line in what looks like a paragraph of text. "People will just make a new page and talk in different fonts so you know who is who," Skyler said. "I had one really good friend and we were in different homerooms. So, we'd email each other a doc and would just chat about whatever was going on." At the end of class, they just delete a doc or resolve all the comments. Rarely does anyone save them the way previous generations may have stored away paper notes from friends.
There's no lack of equity in the tools that any of the teachers, students, or indeed, any of us have.
Teachers don't have a mainframe and students dumb terminals.
No, instead we have CaptainDork's Corollary: "For every motherfucker out there with a computer, there's another motherfucker out there with a computer."
In an essentially P2P architecture, it's a level playing field.
The students are just a lot more imaginative, creative, and innovative, and connected than the teachers.
Because the student population is larger than the teacher headcount, simple math predicts that the students are more capable.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
For adults, pornography is a big driver of technology. For kids, it's about finding all kinds of new ways to communicate with and about your peers.
Chromebooks are popular in schools now. And by popular, I mean with the school districts.
Chromebooks are cheap. The district can negotiate with multiple hardware manufacturers for volume discounts. A Chromebook is easily replaced if lost, stolen or eaten. All of the student's "cloud based" course work and assignments are instantly on the new Chromebook as soon as the student logs in. The Chromebooks are easily reset -- even remotely, for the next incoming school year. With Cloud Print, students -- or faculty -- can print to various printers in the school to which they are given access. Access to everything on a Chromebook is centrally controlled once the district joins new Chromebook hardware to their Google account.
Now given the above, THAT is the biggest reason why I see Google Docs as a chat application. If everyone had Windows or Macs they could use other potential chat applications.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
Think of the children!
Individual 1 will be very disappointed.
I'll see your senator, and I'll raise you two judges.
I collaborated on a test with other students by joining a local irc server.
Remember when treating strangers with respect and loving your neighbor were conservative principles? Liberals had to hijack all of these basic foundations of human decency because the alt-right are morally bankrupt and unable to cease their own antisocial behavior let alone advise the rest of us on right and proper behavior.
So they reinvented Google Wave
Rarely does anyone save them the way previous generations may have stored away paper notes from friends.
Kids aren't stupid. They see people almost being denied a supreme court seat because they once had a beer while in school.
Under such circumstances, would the natural inclination not be to go totally dark? To leave no permanent record of your existence to critique, so that at any time you could conform to the current popular GroupThink?? No wonder SnapChat is also so popular.
The only mistake they are making I would say, is in trusting Google to actually delete something... but Google has the tools they need - for the moment.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I am shocked I tell you shocked to hear their is note passing in high school.
So some kids found a creative workaround for communicating during class? And that qualifies as the "hottest chat app for teens," does it?
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
Have someone flip the power switch on the router and tell them to bring up MS Word, WordPad or even Notepad and spend 30 minutes writing a grammatically correct 4 paragraph introduction to a prospective employer arguing why you are a fit for the position**
** "Yes, you an make up all your quals, but it needs to read like a young man or woman is approaching a job as a respectable potential employee."
Sit back and watch the mayhem that ensues outside of those districts that still have parents and teachers that don't think like this:
Last week, I wrote my own chat program in go for all my mates to use at school.
" They see people almost being denied a supreme court seat because they once had a beer while in school." - No, he perjured himself under oath. It's not the beer, you lying faggot. IT'S THE LYING, YOU LYING FAGGOT.
Kavanaugh pretended his "Renate Alumnius" was a badge of honor, that "boofing" wasn't anal sex (it was, I was alive then and that was the slang) and "Devil's Triangle" wasn't a drinking game. It clearly is.
YOU TELL A LIE UNDER OATH AND YOU ARE A CRIMINAL. That he basically ATTEMPTED TO RAPE A CLASSMATE also didn't really rise to the occasion of a lifetime appointment to the SCOTUS without investigation.
But with TRAITOR SUPPORTING DISHONEST FAGGOTS LIKE YOURSELF in charge? He sailed right through anyway, to lie another day.
Dry your eyes, traitor. Your little perjurer didn't get caught - yet!
If they weren't stupid they wouldn't believe in fake "disappearing" message services by Israeli/American surveillance capitalist companies.
If they were smart, they'd know that computers copy information promiscuously, and they only security is to not share, or even not create the information in the first place.
At the end of class, they just delete a doc or resolve all the comments. Rarely does anyone save them the way previous generations may have stored away paper notes from friends.
But Google sure keeps them. When the Google AI escapes the lab and enslaves humanity it will know all about your schoolroom shenanigans come judgement day.
You shut people off from the world, they'll find ways to get messages in and out.
Let them chat.
First rule of holes; When in one, stop digging.
> Rarely does anyone save them the way previous generations may have stored aim chat histories or IRC chat logs
"Remember when treating strangers with respect and loving your neighbor were conservative principles" - No, I don't. That was PR. They have been traitors since the John Birch society was founded. Parasite Republicanism.
Improvise. Adapt. Overcome.
You shut people off from the world, they'll find ways to get messages in and out.
Let them chat.
Alternatively make the lessons interesting, so nobody can be bothered to chat.
I'm still surprised kids haven't learned morse code. They could keep their device on silent in their pocket, feel it buzz messages to them (w/a low enough duty-cycle on the motor it would be nearly silent), and quietly tap responses back with one finger, all incognito.
Plus, it's faster than texting.
If we allow our youth to be ahead of the teachers, their future will be imperiled. Clearly we must take countermeasures, like transorbital leucotomy.
We had a club in high school that operated like this. There was a user created for the club in Netware, and the club communicated with each other with Wordperfect 5.1. We'd make the filenames as to.from with 3-character abbreviated usernames. Anyone could read anything, but we generally stayed polite and out of conversations not addressed to us. It was a really rudimentary forum, but it worked pretty well for the mid- to late-90s.
Teachers got annoyed at us, so the admin put an alarm sound into the login script, so it was harder to log in and chat without them knowing.
I still have an archive I saved when I graduated, but I can't bring myself to read any of it since I'm sure it's cringy and awful.
Rarely does anyone save them the way previous generations may have stored away paper notes from friends.
Kids aren't stupid. They see people almost being denied a supreme court seat because they once had a beer while in school.
Yes, children and young adults are notorious for thinking ahead, all the way to their possible Supreme Court hearings.
They definitely do not have more pressing concerns like getting cut from the cheering squad because they were drinking at a party last night.
Could you please stop dragging politics into everything like a two bit troll, KenDoll? Oh and go back to your hole and put the lotion on, I’m hungry.
Occam's razor says that a horny inebriated young male around an inebriated young female, fearing no consequences, will call her a cab. But if he doesn't, Occam's razor says he's horny.
Based on my own experiences at university.
I don't know what convoluted things the young drunk males YOU know do, but the ones I know are not convoluted. Party and play for the gays, and lots of synonyms for the straights.
We're all tired of seeing women, homosexuals, and trannies in the spotlight.
Women are 51 percent of the population. And what do you mean by spotlight? You're offended by the very mention of GLBT folks?
America was at her apex in the 1950s.
What? When there were fewer college graduates and goverment sanctioned racism?
Integrated military now and we wonder why we've not won a war since WWII.
you're complaining about racial integration?
Won a war? Which wars are you saying we have lost?
We don't even want to kill the enemy any more.
Who says? What we want to do is kill enemies without antagonizing civilians we'll want to not attack in the future.
When I was in school back in the 1970s, we celebrated the carpet bombing of Germany and the trashing of Japan.
Celebrated? I wouldn't say that, discussed as necessary evils which were then followed up by the Marshall Plan, which REBUILT Germany and Japan so that they are now are friends.
People now think flying the American flag is bigoted and wrong.
Who says that? Some right wing pundit? Some Texan who full of Southern Partisan bragadoccio? Plenty of liberals fly the flag, they just won't fly the Confederate flag.
We are not really even slouching towards Gomorrah, we're there.
Bible reference, how funny. It's funny how you go on about military victories and smashing enemies when the Bible directly says: Thou Shalt Not Kill. It doesn't say "Hooo doggie, you can kill all the spics, nigras, sand nigras, indo-chimps, and Jew York City fags and trannies you want, jes don keel god-fearin Texans, YEE HAW, the south is goin to rise again"
It literally says "THOU SHALT NOT KILL" and by going on about enemies and the military you are being a total hypocrite, just like most other Southern Evangelicals. You aren't really Christians, you're legalist "Paulians"
When attendance is mandatory, it guarantees a portion of those will have no interest in learning.
Big talk from a keyboard warrior,
Likewise. You really think that your gun carrying rednecks with some rifles can stand up against airstrikes, armored vehicles, and everything else?
What would happen when the groceries stopped being delivered, or all the telecommunications were shut down, or the electrical grid go down. Or your granny can't buy her medicine at the pharmacy.
Most states besides the East and Left coasts are highly conservative.
You're forgetting the upper midwest.
Let's see... the military is a little over 1M people.
Active duty perhaps, but that doesn't include reservists or Guard now does it.
Not enough to round all us deplorables.
No need to round you up, just cut off the infrastructure. Most of you good ol boys who think you'd be a "militia" are just as dependent on your ESPN, Internet, Grocery stores, pharmacies, etc as the "coastal liberals" are. Texas is arid, cut off the AC and Monday Night Football and you braggart Texan machismo would cave in,
The left barely know how to use guns, let alone own them.
And who says liberals don't know how to use guns? That's the same old argument you southern boys pulled off in the 19th century...when a bunch of yankee "shopkeepers, clerks and factory workers" defeated a bunch of squirrel huntin illiterates duped into fighting for a bunch of slaver plutocrats with logistics, technology and MASSIVE firepower.
This takes me back to my junior year of HS when some of the students in my typing class discovered the local email system built into the dos networking software the IBM PS/2s used
Notice how I didn't say "fuck them". I called the poster out on hypocrisy and ignorance And by your sarcasm and homophobia, you are probably the poster.
You want to debate, then login, coward. Its easy to be a bigot as an anonymous coward.
What the Wave?!
...back in 2015, found an inverse correlation between ICT use in classrooms & academic performance. Numerous research papers have claimed "potential" for increased learning gains but very few have shown acceptable effect sizes in real world classrooms. In short, effective learning & teaching with ICT appears to be too difficult &/or problematic for the vast majority of pupils, students, & teaching staff to achieve. We need a moratorium on school ICT use in classrooms until the technology & curricula are shown to be fit for purpose.
When attendance is mandatory, it guarantees a portion of those will have no interest in learning.
If attendance were not mandatory, it would guarantee that a far larger portion of the population won't learn anything at all.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I was doing this in 2005 using text files and a shared drive, long before having a cell phone at school was considered normal, and I wouldn't consider that innovative, more like just creative. And kids getting creative to do something they're not allowed to do is far, far from new.
From the link:
On September 25, “Jane Doe” from Oceanside, California sent an anonymous letter to Senator Kamala Harris alleging that the then-nominee for Supreme Court and his friend raped her “several times each” in the back of a car. ...Later on October 3, Judy Munro-Leighton emailed the committee claiming to be the “Jane Doe” of the letter... ...She admitted to investigators that her story was a “tactic” and “that was just a ploy.”...
“I am not Jane Doe . . . but I did read Jane Doe’s letter..."
So... she is NOT the person who claimed that the then-nominee for Supreme Court and his friend raped her “several times each” in the back of a car.
So it's quite possible that the REAL Jane Doe was raped. It's certainly not been disproved.
Who cares?