Nerds

Gadgetphile nerds make terrible teachers because they force you to purchase random, stupid, and pointless pieces of technology that accomplish nothing except inflate the tuition fees.  Worse yet, we're not even given the choice to opt out of having these purchases made for us, so I'm stuck with the tab for this following piece of expensive paperweight:

This waste of plastic and electronics is a remote IR clicker.  Distributed to each student so that during lectures we may press the little buttons and make our instructor feel like she's teaching at the Starfleet Academy. The uses for this device are:  (taken straight from the manufacturer's website) "Streamline student inputs, even from the shy ones"  - I thought one of the things school is supposed to teach is interpersonal skills?  I mean, during boot camp does the army provide electric wheelchairs to "increase physical participation, even from the fat ones"? "Instantly tabulate results for pre-made questions and polls"  -  Polls??  Yes I attend school because I want to know what my fellow ignorant students' opinions are on biochemistry and anatomy.  "Press E if you think boobs are used to aid digestion". "Assess levels of comprehension on a class-wide scale"  -  This takes the cake.  I ain't that smart, but even I can come up with a better method to figure out if the class gets something or needs stuff repeated...  allow me to demonstrate.......

I guess I'm just old school.

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