Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Did you know that the computer changes what you type before it posts it on the blog?

This morning I gave the students their comments back so they could revise and edit their answers. I then asked them to explain to me what they have figured out. Most of the students responded with, "I didn't use a capital letter to begin my sentence." or " I forgot to capitalize I." The other responses were the same until one student raised her hand and said, 'The computer changed what I wrote. It mispelled some of the words and forgot to capitalize the beginning of the sentence." I just had to laugh....wasn't sure what else to do at that moment.

5 comments:

  1. This is too funny!!! I would have died :) Gotta love them tho!!!

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  2. That is a new one! I think I would have had to laugh too.

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  3. Funny! It reminds me of when my students say 'the calculator is messing up and it is giving me the wrong answer'. It is ALWAYS a user error! :)

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  4. It kind of reminds me of when they are taking a standardized test and say, "They don't have the correct answer."

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  5. This so shows how we are too dependent to computers/technology..

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