With budgets getting tighter and tighter some schools are looking at 4-day weeks instead of 5. The fear, of course, is that students will miss out on the education they’re supposed to be getting if their week is shortened.
Personally I like the idea of a 4-day work week. It would be great to have Fridays off even if it did mean longer days Monday through Thursday. But professionally I have a few issues with it.
Came across this post from a technology teacher in Cedar Park, Texas.
Much of what she talks about is the result of a conference she returned from in Austin a couple weeks ago. A conference that I, along with a few thousand other technology teachers, was also at. I even got talked into presenting a couple of sessions. One on Python and one on Alice.
Her point, and one I definitely agree with, is that as teachers we don’t embrace technology when it can be used to enhance the education of our students. I teach computer science so we’re on the computers most every day. But there are subjects that are not forced to use technology, and many times they don’t. And that’s unfortunate. Students are online pretty much 24/7. Even when they’re sitting in class and supposed to be paying attention to us they have their cell phones in their pockets receiving text message from friends.