Frustration Learning
What has this robot got to be happy about? Certainly not how well his software is running where I work. I don't teach in a gym anymore, but I do teach in a computer lab. Scott School is short on space. There are not enough classrooms for the students we already have, and we actually had to add a class this year. Meanwhile, arts programs are expanding: music is now year-round, and we just added a part-time art teacher for half the year. This forced an issue that should have been addressed last year when, as I reported consistently, the gym proved an impossible place to teach music. Over the summer, there was a realignment of facilities, and the English Language Development classroom was shut down, with one third of it turned into a computer lab and, on the other side of a divider, the rest of it now the music room. This is still far from ideal. For the most part, teachers choose the other computer lab, off the library, when their students need some screen time, but oc...