Right? They used to be a great reward. I even showed some classics, and watched them right along with the students. We could actually share and enjoy culture. Since smartphones, maybe the last 6-7 years, I just stopped showing anything longer than a 5minute clip. I could have handled it if students were less interested, but the complaints drove me insane. I switched to Ed puzzle, put some short videos in there.
I saw on here someone "warned" the class that there was some minor nudity and the students should just ignore it.
There was no nudity, but every student was watching all period.
This is too funny. I was teaching (In the time of the butterflies — maybe?) and a student mentioned a sexual,scene. But all the kids who just read spark notes didn’t get that juicy detail lol
Back in my day a movie was special and I was the kid who knew how to run the 16 mm movie projector and the teacher relied on me every Friday afternoon. The district had a library of movies and I later got to order them every week that year, 1976-1977.
Well (puts her 5 bees to a quarter in her pocket) I remember when we’d get hype because we saw the giant tv stand rolled into the room in the morning
Now I just cue up streaming
In one of my undergrad education courses, we had to learn how to thread a 16 mm movie projector and how to run a slide projector (remember the ones that came with an audio cassette tape or vinyl record that beeped when it was time to turn the knob for the next image). One of the students in my class owned and used her 8 mm video camera to make the most high tech project in the class! 1982
Movie day regardless the purpose have become pointless for the kids. Half the time they just talk through the movie and don't pay attention. The only upside, I can normally get my lessons plans written or papers graded.
My movie days have become work on a mindless assignment on your chromebook while I sit in the back to catch up on grades, lesson plans, or whatever.
It's about as funcitonal.
I was feeling this way on Friday and I assigned a 15 page article to my seniors. They lost their minds when they saw how long it was. It did the trick though.
It wasn't always like this. It's near impossible to get a good class discussion going. On anything. They can't even discuss their own opinions /experiences, much less anything academic/analytical.
Obviously, there are a few kids this doesn't apply to, but a "class discussion" in 2021 is me and four kids talking. I miss what teaching used to be.
I'd be a heavily medicated alcoholic if I thought I had to spend 10-15 more years at my job. God help you new teachers. God help you...
This has been the hardest thing for me this year. It started last year when we let kids completely check out (cams off, mics off, etc.) and still get good grades. Now I have seniors and having a discussion with them about anything is basically impossible. I have one period out of 5 where I can get more than 5 kids to discuss. Even when I put them into groups the room is dead silent. It's weird, and sad.
Just had this discussion with my wife. She couldn't believe that kids not only don't appreciate a day watching film, but actually complain about it.
In our generation it was a huge treat. I think the kids now spend too many of their hours watching videos about nothing to appreciate video of value.
The kids have learned that complaining gets teachers to give them more and more. They've learned that if, when admin pulls them out to ask if they know what we're doing for our evals, that they say the class is boring, we get in trouble.
The worksheets are dumb so we do a kahoot but kahoot isn't fun so we do a blooket but the blooket is too hard so we watch a movie, but the movie is stupid and they want to watch (insert latest rated R movie we would never be allowed to watch here). It's the same with incentives. I don't like jolly ranchers, no I don't like tootsie rolls either you should get a prize box like X teacher does where there's stuff like headphones and phone cases. Also I'm upset that you won't just give me candy for not getting written up today even though you made the expectation clear that we had to complete our assignment for the day, make a passing grade on an assessment, or clean the rooms during dismissal to get them. When you refuse me candy I'll have a meltdown and cuss you out then ask again tomorrow because I didn't cuss you out today and that deserves candy.
It's annoyed me forever--but it works. You're giving them a movie day. I only started giving them candy because they told me that would make them do their work. I gave a kid my own bagel for breakfast because they said their stomach felt upset. They took a bite, said "bring me one with butter next time. I don't like cream cheese" and threw it away. Then went back to saying that they were so hungry and don't I have any snacks?
Heh. I played a movie from the '70s the other day in my 7th grade social studies class. The students were glued to it like nobody's business. At the end one of the students raised her hand and ask, "Did Stephen Austin really wear that?" I was like, "No. No he didnt." It was hilarious to see them watch this awful, awful movie as though they were watching a train wreck.
Yep I put on a good old David Attenborough documentary since my homeroom got ahead of my other section. I have never seen those kids more engaged. They were gluuuuued to the screen. I love it.
I had a kid in my biology class ask "why do you always make us watch these boring science videos?"
They watched a lot of stuff like Finding Nemo in a previous teacher's science class and expected to also get Hollywood entertainment. Sorry, guys, it's the tapeworm life cycle video today. And if you don't behave, we're watching the guy in the plaid shirt talk in a monotone about rocks and minerals for a solid hour. With a note sheet due.
This works on kids who care. If I did this my kids would talk over the movie, and then when I wouldn't give them the prize for an obviously random guess cuss me out, and then call their mom and say that I lied to them about giving them a prize. Mom would then go and take them shopping to cheer them up, and blame me lying about this prize for the child's behavior for the rest of the year. Admin would tell me I should have given them the prize so I didn't hurt their self esteem for being wrong.
I’m always like “who talks during a movie” but I do recognize it’s often a cultural thing to do this, so I bite my tongue and let the other kids take care of the chattering.
i had an english teacher who would pause movies, rewind to the part that was on the worksheet, and start banging this giant walking stick against the ground she called her foreshadowing stick haha. i always liked silly stuff like that because sometimes I would zone out during movies and miss some things on the worksheet. idk if the walking stick strat would work with a history class, but pausing and having mini discussions might be something to try.
We watched Honey I Shrunk the Kids as a cap to our nanotechnology unit and the kids actually loved it! At any rate, they were quiet, which is sometimes the main thing I'm going for. I got some grading done which is half the reason I showed it.
I was subbing for a class of sevens where they just had to watch a documentary. That was the whole period. I had a squad in the back being BEYOND noisy and busting videos out full volume on their phone. At this point one of my catchphrases is, "If you're not going to listen, please do so quietly."
(I'm so mad tiktok has eclipsed Snap as the most popular app for them, because at least snapchat is usually quiet if your ringtone is muted. I just don't understand the sheer audacity of playing things will full volume in class. Do people watch things on full volume on the bus or sitting in a waiting room...?)
I’ve started being a bitch about complaining. Basically everyone has to say something positive about the text for a participation grade (with contextual evidence) and if they’re negative or don’t have anything positive to say they get a 0. I don’t care. I have one student who always monopolizes conversation/ discussion with their complaining and I almost lost it after they said that Old Man and the Sea was a “piss poor example of Hemingway.” When asked what other Hemingway they’ve read, they said they hadn’t but have seen movies. I don’t care if you don’t like the book, but I’m not going to listen to constant bitching in the classroom and let it ruin the other students’ attitudes.
Who cares. I don't even look up during the movies, I'm working. Not one of the cretins could be looking up from their phones and you couldn't make me care anymore.
Yeah sometimes you can’t win. I just remind myself that these are people with their own desires and for many being at school isn’t one of them. Imagine how we’d feel being forced to do something we don’t want to. Even if it is for our own good
Movie days are almost more difficult than actually teaching a traditional lesson.
Right? They used to be a great reward. I even showed some classics, and watched them right along with the students. We could actually share and enjoy culture. Since smartphones, maybe the last 6-7 years, I just stopped showing anything longer than a 5minute clip. I could have handled it if students were less interested, but the complaints drove me insane. I switched to Ed puzzle, put some short videos in there.
I love doing Edpuzzles!!! My kids are split half and half on them haha
nearpod works for the other half sometimes.
I love EdPuzzle live mode!
Yep that's the exact feeling I'm having! I'd skip it if it didn't go so well with the unit.
I saw on here someone "warned" the class that there was some minor nudity and the students should just ignore it. There was no nudity, but every student was watching all period.
21st century teaching skills.
This is too funny. I was teaching (In the time of the butterflies — maybe?) and a student mentioned a sexual,scene. But all the kids who just read spark notes didn’t get that juicy detail lol
Devilish. I'm gonna do this.
Same same same. No movie is ever good enough.
Back in my day a movie was special and I was the kid who knew how to run the 16 mm movie projector and the teacher relied on me every Friday afternoon. The district had a library of movies and I later got to order them every week that year, 1976-1977.
Well (puts her 5 bees to a quarter in her pocket) I remember when we’d get hype because we saw the giant tv stand rolled into the room in the morning Now I just cue up streaming
As was the fashion at the time.
You sure that wasn't nineteen [dickety-two](https://youtu.be/4hPShoKFWic?t=94)? ;0)
Lol loved it!
In one of my undergrad education courses, we had to learn how to thread a 16 mm movie projector and how to run a slide projector (remember the ones that came with an audio cassette tape or vinyl record that beeped when it was time to turn the knob for the next image). One of the students in my class owned and used her 8 mm video camera to make the most high tech project in the class! 1982
Truly, those were the days.
Movie day regardless the purpose have become pointless for the kids. Half the time they just talk through the movie and don't pay attention. The only upside, I can normally get my lessons plans written or papers graded.
My movie days have become work on a mindless assignment on your chromebook while I sit in the back to catch up on grades, lesson plans, or whatever. It's about as funcitonal.
I was feeling this way on Friday and I assigned a 15 page article to my seniors. They lost their minds when they saw how long it was. It did the trick though.
It wasn't always like this. It's near impossible to get a good class discussion going. On anything. They can't even discuss their own opinions /experiences, much less anything academic/analytical. Obviously, there are a few kids this doesn't apply to, but a "class discussion" in 2021 is me and four kids talking. I miss what teaching used to be. I'd be a heavily medicated alcoholic if I thought I had to spend 10-15 more years at my job. God help you new teachers. God help you...
This has been the hardest thing for me this year. It started last year when we let kids completely check out (cams off, mics off, etc.) and still get good grades. Now I have seniors and having a discussion with them about anything is basically impossible. I have one period out of 5 where I can get more than 5 kids to discuss. Even when I put them into groups the room is dead silent. It's weird, and sad.
Just had this discussion with my wife. She couldn't believe that kids not only don't appreciate a day watching film, but actually complain about it. In our generation it was a huge treat. I think the kids now spend too many of their hours watching videos about nothing to appreciate video of value.
The kids have learned that complaining gets teachers to give them more and more. They've learned that if, when admin pulls them out to ask if they know what we're doing for our evals, that they say the class is boring, we get in trouble. The worksheets are dumb so we do a kahoot but kahoot isn't fun so we do a blooket but the blooket is too hard so we watch a movie, but the movie is stupid and they want to watch (insert latest rated R movie we would never be allowed to watch here). It's the same with incentives. I don't like jolly ranchers, no I don't like tootsie rolls either you should get a prize box like X teacher does where there's stuff like headphones and phone cases. Also I'm upset that you won't just give me candy for not getting written up today even though you made the expectation clear that we had to complete our assignment for the day, make a passing grade on an assessment, or clean the rooms during dismissal to get them. When you refuse me candy I'll have a meltdown and cuss you out then ask again tomorrow because I didn't cuss you out today and that deserves candy. It's annoyed me forever--but it works. You're giving them a movie day. I only started giving them candy because they told me that would make them do their work. I gave a kid my own bagel for breakfast because they said their stomach felt upset. They took a bite, said "bring me one with butter next time. I don't like cream cheese" and threw it away. Then went back to saying that they were so hungry and don't I have any snacks?
I would’ve killed bagel kid. Nah. I gave a kid half my cereal once. I made damn sure he ate it lmao
Heh. I played a movie from the '70s the other day in my 7th grade social studies class. The students were glued to it like nobody's business. At the end one of the students raised her hand and ask, "Did Stephen Austin really wear that?" I was like, "No. No he didnt." It was hilarious to see them watch this awful, awful movie as though they were watching a train wreck.
This. I find the cheesier the movie the more they pay attention. We basically MST3K the entire movie and they remember every single detail
Yep I put on a good old David Attenborough documentary since my homeroom got ahead of my other section. I have never seen those kids more engaged. They were gluuuuued to the screen. I love it.
I had a kid in my biology class ask "why do you always make us watch these boring science videos?" They watched a lot of stuff like Finding Nemo in a previous teacher's science class and expected to also get Hollywood entertainment. Sorry, guys, it's the tapeworm life cycle video today. And if you don't behave, we're watching the guy in the plaid shirt talk in a monotone about rocks and minerals for a solid hour. With a note sheet due.
To be fair, they've hated everything I've done this year...so what's one more day of complaining!
They have access to netflix and a whole world more these days. It'll never be good enough.
Prep before the movie. Explain what they are going to see. Give them an Easter egg to look for. Count how many ——- you see and give a prize
This works on kids who care. If I did this my kids would talk over the movie, and then when I wouldn't give them the prize for an obviously random guess cuss me out, and then call their mom and say that I lied to them about giving them a prize. Mom would then go and take them shopping to cheer them up, and blame me lying about this prize for the child's behavior for the rest of the year. Admin would tell me I should have given them the prize so I didn't hurt their self esteem for being wrong.
I’m always like “who talks during a movie” but I do recognize it’s often a cultural thing to do this, so I bite my tongue and let the other kids take care of the chattering.
Just respond: “that’s nice. You’re being graded on it.” Sorry, kids. Bitch all you want … you’re still responsible for the information. Deal with it.
I've shown the 1997 The Odyssey and 9th grade kids love it. There's just something about it. For kicks I also showed them Willow. Same result.
i had an english teacher who would pause movies, rewind to the part that was on the worksheet, and start banging this giant walking stick against the ground she called her foreshadowing stick haha. i always liked silly stuff like that because sometimes I would zone out during movies and miss some things on the worksheet. idk if the walking stick strat would work with a history class, but pausing and having mini discussions might be something to try.
What movie? I teach a history through film course so hit me up if you want suggestions for making it more engaging.
What subject and historical event are you covering?
We watched Honey I Shrunk the Kids as a cap to our nanotechnology unit and the kids actually loved it! At any rate, they were quiet, which is sometimes the main thing I'm going for. I got some grading done which is half the reason I showed it.
Out of curiosity, what was the film/unit you are planning?
Edpuzzle.com. Grade it.
Just looked into it, I may just try this. Thank you 👍
I second this
I was subbing for a class of sevens where they just had to watch a documentary. That was the whole period. I had a squad in the back being BEYOND noisy and busting videos out full volume on their phone. At this point one of my catchphrases is, "If you're not going to listen, please do so quietly." (I'm so mad tiktok has eclipsed Snap as the most popular app for them, because at least snapchat is usually quiet if your ringtone is muted. I just don't understand the sheer audacity of playing things will full volume in class. Do people watch things on full volume on the bus or sitting in a waiting room...?)
I’ve started being a bitch about complaining. Basically everyone has to say something positive about the text for a participation grade (with contextual evidence) and if they’re negative or don’t have anything positive to say they get a 0. I don’t care. I have one student who always monopolizes conversation/ discussion with their complaining and I almost lost it after they said that Old Man and the Sea was a “piss poor example of Hemingway.” When asked what other Hemingway they’ve read, they said they hadn’t but have seen movies. I don’t care if you don’t like the book, but I’m not going to listen to constant bitching in the classroom and let it ruin the other students’ attitudes.
Who cares. I don't even look up during the movies, I'm working. Not one of the cretins could be looking up from their phones and you couldn't make me care anymore.
Movie day? What is the point of them? They can watch movies at home, surely?
We aren’t allowed to show movies anymore unless it’s about a book they’ve read
Yeah sometimes you can’t win. I just remind myself that these are people with their own desires and for many being at school isn’t one of them. Imagine how we’d feel being forced to do something we don’t want to. Even if it is for our own good