Originally Posted by
Sombeech
It's tough, but technology is helping out a lot. It depends on the School DIstrict but a lot of them now have 1 to 1 devices like the Chromebook laptop and iPads, one for each student. It's getting easier for the teacher to hurry and shoot a message to individual devices and get an idea of how each student is doing.
Students can answer questions in the classroom in new ways that avoid any public humiliation. Quick surveys can be asked the class to get an idea if everybody is up to speed with the current topic.
There are a lot of awesome advances with technology, but often it will be hindered by "old school pen and paper" style teachers that insist on the old methods, and the students with these teachers can suffer the consequences. You can't just fire a teacher because they haven't learned how to make a PowerPoint yet after 20 years. Anyways, I could go on and on, but some great things are available to students now, if the teacher is on board.