good. kids don’t need their phones in class to be bombarded from propaganda from tiktok and instagram
If they’re going to do this, then they better be supplying scientific calculators to students.
Still remember my family not bothering to get me one since we were “tight on funds” (ie, we don’t want to sacrifice alcohol and smoke money), and I used an emulator by the name of WabbiteMu in order to follow in my math class.
Not all students use their phones to slack off, and if they can’t access the resources they need to succeed on their phone, it damn well should be the case the schools provides those resources for them.
You don’t need a graphing calculator. I did all my scholarship with a sharp writeview that costs 20$. It does integrals, derivatives, matrices, complex algebra, vector algebra and everything else you could possibly need.
They said “scientific” calculator, not “graphing”. As in their parents weren’t willing to spend that $20 (or less) for what I’d consider the most basic useful calculator.
A calculator is a couple of orders of magnitude cheaper than a phone. Single vs triple digits.
Nope, the wabbit emu is for replacing a TI graphing calculator which is north of ~$150 in the US. Still cheaper than a phone, but only a third or so the price of my daily driver at the time of purchase.
This is an article about Quebec. Do students in Quebec need this kind of tool?
More reason to provide it to students that can’t afford them then.
It’s a bit puzzling to me that we are worrying about replacing a very expensive thing that (some) students own with a very cheap thing. Like, yes of course, give everyone a damn calculator, but really, now you guys feel the sudden urge to advocate for that? If someone can’t afford a 9$ calculator, they also didn’t afford it last week, when phones were not banned. Where was all the concern about students who can’t afford calculators last week? It’s silly.
Graphing calculators are 100% necessary, we used them regularly for sine wave and logarithmic functions to pinpoint specific plot values on a graph. A $9 calculator doesn’t cover that
Question, were you a student in Quebec?
(Not downvoting you.)
Why now? Because that is what is being discussed in this thread.
I believe that education should be a 100% free, down to the material used in class. But we are talking about phones replacing calculators, not how we think the education should be.
So yeah, give everyone a damn calculator.
I still do not understand how this is not the standard in school across the country. I don’t care if children kick and scream about this, that is what children do when they do not get their toys and there is absolutely no reason for a child to even own a smartphone.
Typical Quebec win.
Probably not. To make it work they will have to push some funding into the school system which they will not. That’s virtue signaling at the provincial government level
I mean, Legault government wants new immigrants to speak French (which is a good thing) but cut the funding for French classes for immigrants (what?)
So I am afraid you are right. They want to look good but won’t do jackshit, as always.
Sounds like an attempt to increase the barrier to entry.
Parfait.
