The waxing of a physics teacher & filmmaker. I'll try to put in a mix of recent interesting science stuff, quick movie reviews, loose political ramblings and observations from my existence at NYU's grad film school (once as a student, now as a teacher). One of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Filmmakers of Independent Film. My last film won the Best Short Film Award at the 2011 TIFF and the Canadian Academy Awards. http://www.doubleswithslightpepper.com
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Ill Communication
Nothing gets a teacher more angry than the sound of phones ringing in class. It totally ruins the momentum of teaching, and distracts all around. A lot of schools across the nation are starting to ban phones at schools (much to the anger of parents.... all of whom need to get over themselves).
Enter a new program that adjusts the frequency of ringing just above the range of most adult humans, but still audible to the younger crew. I applaud this, and I hope there was a way such that the kids using them had a way to talk at a frequency that I couldn't hear.
What makes it even better is that the original idea of exploiting different audible ranges in different ages, was meant to keep kids from loitering.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment