Ha ha, Amazon weren’t lying about me being on a priority list. I got my invite the earliest I could receive it to preorder the Switch 2 at 8:30 in the morning. Got mine in the bag.
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For me it’s mostly the nose 
Non stop clogged and running, need to blow it constantly and a mild headache. Very little coughing. So I feel mostly normal, but I know I’m not 
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Maybe we’ve split this cold 
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Hopefully means we both get better in half the time!
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Well English was as awful as I thought it would be and Assembly was bad too
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But now it is over! That is nice! What did they yell about in the Assembly?
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No yelling today 
But we got some bad news about yet another stupid scheme the school has come up with
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Now I am intrigued. What scheme?
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Apparently we’re all getting iPads to work on wxt year?!?
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What’s bad with that? That’s today’s melody and pretty common in Finnish schools 
And remember, the Finnish school system is among the best ones in the world 
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I was visiting the school that my daughter is starting at next year, and I was very happy when they said that they have shifted back to focus on physical books.
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I would have loved an iPad at school!
They weren’t invented yet but still…
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After Covid the government pushed for all schools to have chromebooks or ipads to facilitate online learning.
Every child in our school had one and it was wonderful for a variety of reasons (and we didn’t get rid of physical books - it’s about balance). We were able to do all sorts of useful things with them.
Then the funding disappeared. The insurance shot through the roof and with about a month’s notice we had to tell all the children that we had to take them away.
It was really, really ■■■■■■■ frustrating.
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This is the key to success. They are a good complement, but you still need both.
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I never had an iPad, but we all got our own laptops during my first year at upper secondary school. We were the first students in our school to get laptops. They then introduced iPads for the younger classes.
And it’s absolutely about balance. Tech skills are important these days, but so is being able to use a lexicon or an atlas or actually write stuff using pen and paper. So there should be a balance, with the tech being a complement rather than the primary tool for learning.
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We had computer rooms that the teacher could book for a class when needed if someone else did not book it before us.
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Ah yes! Computer rooms are what I’m used to for most of my school years.
But now they’re all gone.
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Are computer rooms gone?
I used to spend a lot of time in those, sometimes at lunch as well, writing HTML and making websites 
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Adding to this: my class (1996) was among the last in the country to complete the major national A-level exams with pen and paper. This was in 2015. They began introducing digital exams a couple of years later, and now the A Levels are fully digital, with every exam written on a computer.
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Well, they are gone from all of my old schools, at least. But they might still exist in some smaller schools.
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