Mr. D’s Class Blog

Well my friends, it’s over.  As you may have read, GregT7 gave me his cell phone and ipod for the ten-day turnoff.  Today, I walked into 7th period, handed his phone and ipod back to him, and asked, “Now what?”
He surprisingly took both pieces of techology and threw them in the waste bin.  He said, “I [...]

Yes!  Great stuff, people.  I have thoroughly enjoyed your coments.  We even gleaned a wonderful question from Mr. Porter.  (Mr. Porter is the district tech guru for us teachers–that’s right, one of the Littleton Public Schools administrators.)  Thank you for your comment, Mr. Porter.  I am glad it is on the post started by Mr. Andy.  That’s [...]

Great stuff people.  I am really enjoying reading your comments.  GregT7 talks about his ”perfect strategy” for breaking his habit.  You guys should check that out (Assignment #4, I think).  And I loved SarahK7’s response to my last post.  I loved all your responses, but check SarahK7’s especially.  And yes, Chynna, me too, I miss the hair.  [...]

I am really enjoying your comments.  I’ll add a comment of my own here:
It seems to me that the the effects of these technologies are always far from, if not the precise opposite of their stated purposes.  That is, these media are designed to be habit forming, but they don’t advertise themselves by the habits they form; nor do we [...]

Hey, people, good stuff.  Someone please give Forrest some love.  His friends are all turning on him, it seems…
Anyway, sorry for getting this post up so late.  I have been busy painting my house.  What are you guys doing in place of turning to the prohibited technologies.  A lot of you are saying that you are [...]

Awesome!  Mr. Rhys is following along.
Mr. Rhys is the first person who made me consider all these issues.  He shared with me a book called Amusing Ourselves to Death about a decade ago, and you guys know that book because I have asked you to read certain chapters of it, like “The Huxleyan Warning” and, [...]

Hi Heritage High,
This thought is “on the side” — please do not spend any time on this until you are through with Mr. D’s assignments. I would feel TERRIBLE to steal any of his thunder.
I am an old friend of Mr. D, and I help teachers teach with, and about [...]

Nice work, those of you who commented on the last assignment, including those of you who commented more than once.  I am enjoying reading about your experiences.  I thought it was funny that JonN7’s family was proud of him, AdamW3’s were supportive, turning off the TV when he was there and talking with him instead, while [...]

All right, young people, the weekend came and went.  How did you do?  Did you successfully turn off the specified technologies for the whole weekend?  If not, why not?  How and when did you break down?  What was your reasoning or excuse each time?  If you were successful, what was it like?  What differences did [...]