Hilarious Teacher Technology in the Classroom
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I was a school tech for afew years. Printers were the biggest pain. Everyone wanted to connect them to the network but no one ever gave them static IPs for some reason so every time a printer restarted? Yep. No one could print to it. When I took a school, I gave every printer and teacher computer in the building a static IP and very identifiable name. Took me 10 minutes and teachers loved me.
Sure, but could they find the school after you took it?
@@jeffc5974 aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhahhahha im wheezing this was the cherry on top of the video cake.
Blasphemy!!! You problem-solver, you!
.. Thought there were no such legends left😎🖐🕶😲
I worked as a tech for a college. The server for their computer lab was a dual Pentium Pro rig.
That's right, Pentium Pro.
The computers the students used were Pentium IIIs.
The last time I was in a classroom was 2009, how in gods name is the “did I print anything in here” thing still going on?
School... School never changes.
Printers are from hell
because people graduate faster than people get fed up and decide to force change
*god's
@@JessmanChicken86 sir this is greece
“You know, because everybody wants to steal a projector” oh that aged like the finest of wines
Devious
Devious licks will age like milk too dont worry
@@zirconium2014 Dafuqs devious lick mean?
@@moldiworp9143 it’s a tiktok trend where people steal stuff from school
@@moldiworp9143 pretty much what the other dude said + vandalizing. Imagine watching Jackass but with smooth brain toddlers.
I found a weird ancient light switch that had been painted over many times in my math classroom. It turns on a hidden fluorescent lamp in a funny desk cabinet that probably wasn't opened in years. I probably turned on the light for the first time in 5 years.
Nice 😎
That's cool.
Was there anything inside?
@@7OwlsWithALaptop nothing. just the fluorescent tube and a lot of dust. the cabinet is almost hidden because anyone walking past would think its a regular old desk fixed to the wall.
Its interesing to see how many people are interested in a hidden lamp in a desk cabinet, huh.
@@mjyanimations1062 oh well, maybe you can hide something in there for the next curious person
Edit: like a note with a puzzle, or something, a magnetized chessboard and an invitation to play, something cool and mysterious
“Other teachers will randomly print the manual to the space station throughout the day.” You sir, win all the things. 👏🏻🤣
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😂😂😂
im not liking your comment cause at the time I'm seeing this, you have 69.
@@ant.8 nice
Yeah, my job used to be like this until we had IT remove our office from the print options on the floor station computers. The people who work at the desks outside the office aren't the brightest and when something doesn't come out of their printer they seem to react by putting the document in the print queue at least 20 times before giving up. If we need anything printed in the office from an outside workstation we now just send it to a specialist via teams.
This guy radiates like he loved the idea of being a teacher but is just totally disgusted with how much the government doesn't care about actually funding education
That's the vibe I get from most highschool teachers. The education system is very strangely structured...
Private schools win.
US will spend 1.18 trillion on education this year but whatever
@@Lucky5111 I went to a supposedly prestigious private school K-8. Let me tell you how amazed I was when I went to public high school and they had better accommodations, cleaner classrooms, and actual damn supplies. The school I went to was a money sucking black hole veiled in empty promises of future success. I didn't know EXACTLY where my tuition money went (until years later), but the textbooks we used were all from the 80's or earlier (this was starting ~2000-2008), our desks, lockers, lights, and bathroom stall doors were mostly broken (like the toilets didn't have doors), but our administrators all drove Lincoln's, Porsche's and Cadillacs and sent their kids each to different schools even though admin's kids would get free admission. They always held parent functions in a separate wing and no one was ever allowed to see our classrooms because it would disrupt "the energy". And the worst part is that I thought all of this had been normal until I was in college, looked back and said "wait a minute..." It all became public knowledge a few years ago and was a massive deal as it involved some serious local big business names. (For the sake of privacy, I won't give specifics of my location but there are many examples of us out there. My situation was extreme but my point is that just saying private is better isn't the answer. The are great public schools and there are horrid ones. Same with private.)
what bro?
Did anyone else breathe a sigh of relief when, on the first day of a school year, you found out that one of your teachers was technologically literate and could do basic things like connect their laptop to the projector or successfully use a printer? 😂
The only one that did left in October... she was my favorite teacher too
facts like just move your cursor tf
@@DorkVader26 oh hey look that's when I was born :)
I hated that because it means . more time working
I loved technically illiterate teachers because I could easily become teacher’s pet for making all techs work for them.
My favorite part of a new school year is when teachers come into my room to ask “Did I print anything in here?” as they frantically try to find the test they printed before the students do.
True
lol. Back in highs school some kid always had a copy of the test and he’d airdrop it to everyone in the class. You’d just suddenly hear the ping sound and you knew everyone just received a copy of the key. I love technology.
@@angelgjr1999 wild you had airdrop in high school
@@dacookiewookiee8793 I graduated 2018
I hope you’re not one of those horrible disgusting “teachers” who indoctrinates kids with anti American nonsense and leftism.
This was literally 100% accurate to what my school looks like lol, the intercoms, the printers, etc, even the walls, they are also painted over cement brick.
Pretty sure he teaches at WHHS
That probably is your school then. Look closer? Recognise him?
@@larrydsouza6525 It is not my school, I just recognize a lot of the equipment. It was probably just standard-issue back in the day or something.
It would be way too expensive to drywall the whole school, but now that I think about it the painted-over brick really makes it seem like a prison
@@user-ns1yk2us5j makes it sound like it too. my school has the same walls and its super echoey
"Every four hours you can experience menopause" killed me🤣
"No one really knows what the rest of this stuff does...." So true!
"Whatever you need it to be, it's not that."
That one hit me as a student because I'm a really bad writer and so I've been thrown onto a laptop for most of my schooling years now...in 8th grade I tried to use one of those ethernet....at least I think it was ethernet and I'm 90% sure it just didn't work.
@@scorpiowarrior7841 A look behind the curtain. Every ethernet drop in a classroom will run to a patch panel in a switch closet but from there they have to be connected to the switch by another ethernet cord. Without that connection the ethernet drop in the classroom is not "live" and won't connect you to the network. Switches have limited space on them though so to patch every drop in a building you need to have multiple switches working together but that costs money. Schools often only patch one drop per room that they know is going to be used leaving the other drops dead unless otherwise requested in order to lower the amount of switches they need to buy and save money.
This guy teaches in my factory? 🤔🤣
@@seangoldman6833 I feel like the techs never scope out the school before ordering switches, more than once I was told to install a 8 port switch into a cabinet with 30 drops
@@user-fs9mv8px1y o.0
I remember one day sounded like a gunshot went off in class... Nope, just the epson projector bulb exploding.
It was better in my day. We had mimeograph machines so by the time the teachers printed off the tests, they were so high from the fumes, they weren't stressed any more.🥴
Don't tell I still have purple ditto sheets in my file cabinet
@@kathleenkirchoff9223 oh, for "medicinal" use?😁🥴
@@cheapestf1598 it sure felt like it.
@@DevilTravels I love you, Santa
oh so thats why i liked sniffimg them? i was getting high??
My math teacher ingenuously had his printer renamed to “not the correct printer”. My history teacher took it a bit further and named hers “shredder” and shredded anything that she didn’t print
“I’d prefer not to use this becuase whatever is on the speakers could get me fired.”
Fun (not) story: during remote learning last spring, the weird scary chem teacher (there were three at the time, I had the nice one) opened up a new tab and all of the "frequently visited" sites in his Google history thing were porn... yikes
@@lifeontheledgerlines8394 Maybe it involved chemicals and it was legitimate research?
@@Aethelia If by chemicals you mean lube, then maybe lmao
The other thing that makes the projector alarm redundant: anyone who tries to unhook it will be instantly pancaked under it by the sheer weight of dust built up.
I genuinely hope this guy is no longer a teacher because he's much better suited for stand-up. Well done sir.
He quit In January
Had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
That’s why he has teacher/comedian listed in the info. ☝🏻😉
When most teachers use the microphone that goes around their neck most of the time they dont realize that when you stand directly under a speaker that the microphone will pick it up and create a deafening feedback noise
It’s sad how many teachers lack such basic knowledge
I could hear a teacher across the building. She did not need a speaker!
I taught in a program for Deaf & hard-of-hearing students and our amplification systems NEVER worked.
I'm not a teacher but I'm in tech. My abs hurt so much from the laughing at how true all that is.
Remember when the mouse had rollerballs? And the form tutor would have to regularly read out messages asking us not to steal the mice balls 🤭
When I was in about 6th grade, one of the 7th graders stole the balls from every mouse in the computer lab.
@@kane2742 Good thing it wasn't the science lab.
@@kane2742 when i was in 7th grade, i got in trouble for putting tape under all the mice lasers bc apparently none of the teachers could figure out why the mice weren't working
@@33screamingfrogs34 I did that to a coworker for April Fools' Day once, except instead of tape, I used a small Post-It and wrote "April Fools!" on it.
@@kane2742 i like your style. to be more precise it wasn't exactly tape, but little cut out pictures of nicholas cage's face taped to the underside. you can guess the date from there lol
“Whatever you need it to be, it’s not that”
Mood
"You know, because everybody wants to steal a 240p Hiatachi from 2002". So true!!
Shout outs John, he let me and a buddy print an entire classic dnd manual.
The most passive-aggressive teacher ever.
He is sarcastic, not passive-aggressive!
Once i found a weird lightswitch, it was for a blacklight above the teachers desk.... Yeah... There were some stains lighting up, dont ask me what they where....
Probably healthy apple juice
hmm
I always wondered if you really were still a teacher and now I guess the answer is yes.
This definitely a public school. My school was just like this
I remember there being a set of outlets that were so high up the wall they could only be used if the room was upside down.
Those outlets high up on the wall are leftover from when there was a tv mounted on the wall and it needed to be plugged in. Not to mention the vcr machine that was most likely just under it.
@@loriar1027 that makes sense, thank you.
2:59 Ethernet cable ports, for wired internet access and phone access, it's better than wireless but only because students rarely know how to use really old technology that is still relevant
I think he meant that noone seems to know which plug is connected to what. Like you said, it could an ethernet network (and there might be multiple networks), it could be a phone line (or even multiple phone lines in one plug), or it could be some proprietary data connection that only school districts were gullible enough to use. If the ports aren't properly labeled, they become mystery plugs.
@@atk05003 oh yeah figuring out which drop is live is an exercise in frustration.
I also have an outlet with a gaping hole that goes into a brick wall. At least once a year someone gets shocked by this outlet. It's cool trick.
This year, a history teacher across campus discovered Teachers Pay Teachers. Before I got back to my office to stop things, I had 10 copies of a 35 page packet on the industrial revolution. Luckily, my printer ran out of paper, and I was able to tutor him on which room he should print to 🤦🏻♀️
I feel like this was made in my classroom. I had to replace my own data projector cable because it would only display everything in dark blue. I reported it for almost a year before my husband just bought a cable and did it for me. It was a bit tricky because the projector is in a cage attached to the ceiling in case someone decides to steal a projector from 2010. I had to replace my own data projector screen because it wouldn't lock and was also too narrow for my projector. In January they promised they'd be installing a smart board soon, but it's now June, so... Also, 70 teachers share 1 printer that connects to only 2 computers. The printer cannot print double sided without jamming, and is broken more often than not.
This is insanely accurate
The printer thing reminds me when I was in high school. One teacher had her own printer because whenever she wanted to print something one of 4 things would happen:
1, all the printers would be out of paper or ink or toner
2, all the printers would be busy printing out the entire textbook of the AP physics class
3, none of the printers were connected to the network
4, someone would take her stuff then never return it.
But she could never plug her printer in because people wouldn't print to the teachers lounge printer they'd print to hers
It was funny till #4, 3th being funniest. Then it just became sad.
@@neelroy2918 Every time she did plug it in, there were a TON of print jobs on it before she could even print her things, even if everything was already set up sans printer.
@@katherynedarrah4245 man, must have been expensive printer; sounds like network capable. She could have deleted the print jobs through printer GUI. You cant live without knowing lot of techno things. They should plan for these courses for teachers.
We got a new fangled printer system that actually work. You print what you want from any computer. But you do not select a specific printer.
Then you walk to any printer - touch your keycard to it - and it prints all the jobs attached to your ID. It is even super fast at doing it.
This way - if a printer is busy with someone's big print job, you can just go to a printer that is free and swipe your card.
I loved this guy on The Last Man on Earth. Good to see Phil still role-playing
Brilliant! Have you been in each of my former classrooms??? LOL And the call button...I worked in a really rough middle school where no one EVER answered your desperate calls for help. True.
2am art class!! 🤣🤣
I was a hs physics/honors physics teacher for 20 years (now retired). I was a huge proponent for technology in the classroom-such as it was from 1994 - 2010. My SD told me I was “the biggest bandwidth user” in the entire district. Like it was some sort of crime. (By the way I won The Radio Shack Teacher of the Year with all that bandwidth). So…we had to teach “x” amount of classes every day, and that particular year-as in years past occasionally-I’d been forced to teach biology (ok yes I had comprehensive science but gads…3 preps for high school is just nuts). I worked hard to raise enrollment for my physics classes so I wouldn’t have to do that again, ever. What did the SD do? Why, hire another physics teacher of course! So once again, I’d be stuck teaching biology, for the rest of my natural life. No thank you! I resigned and went on to teach Education at the university level. I might add, no one needs certification to teach at the college level(!)
"That's right. It goes in the square hole."
So true about random teachers sending junk to my online printer.
then there's this... this does nothing at all... XD
In my school we only have one printer for the whole school. That way the "Did I print anything in here?" is avoided, but instead we have the never ending "The test will be on Friday and everyone remember to put 30 cents on your desks before it starts.", because yes, teachers have to pay for printing and because that is unreasonable they make us do it instead. It literally costs the students, money to take a test that we didn't want.
Omg do you attend school in America? I've never heard of making students pay for printing
I’ve never heard of making teachers pay for printing exams. I’m appalled, sir.
Holy shit that has to be illegal
@@myimperfectlife2023 Judging by the name, I assume the commentor is from Russia.
OMG. I would never give paper tests if I had to pay. Come to think of it, I almost never give paper tests anyway.
I’ve been teaching from home and I’m not going to lie. I miss all these obsolete objects in my classroom.
As an IT Technician that worked for a school district everything he says about the technology is exactly correct.
You should have seen the classroom devices when I started teaching in the 70s. We had those lights. And the tin can on the wall. Other than that it was desks, windows and a door. And AC? Hahahahaha
You nailed it perfectly. Bravo!!
I feel like he's the most chill teacher in the school 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣
The lesson I learned in school that has stuck with me the most since graduation is that schools are critically under funded and teachers are insultingly poorly paid.
I still love being a teacher.
Teachers get 2 months off a year plus all the holidays kids get like March break and Christmas, its got its perks.
Theres 264 working days in a year - teachers only have to work 191 of them.
@@kawabungadad8945 However, they don't get paid for those two months, essentially being unemployed.
@@kawabungadad8945 Sounds like a great job. Why are you not a teacher?
@@christianmeglio9111 I might honestly switch careers. I like inspiring kids and have multi subject professional knowledge.
Is there a reason I shouldn't?
I'm an it guy for the feds and my wife is a county school teacher. The amount of times I ask her about basic it stuff that should be done inside the governement that ends up with stuff like this is amazing .your channel has proven incredibly accurate to what my wife goes through. Subscribed.
When our school got smart boards in *some* classes a lot of the students began calling the whiteboard/projector combo dumb boards.
Honestly, it was always a much better experience to use the EXPO marker rather than that thousand dollar piece of junk (but 4th grade me at the time always thought the Smart Board was so cool at the time and really wanted to volunteer to use it whenever the opportunity was given).
I miss chalk boards. No expensive markers that the kids steal.
@@ratherbfishing455 Same. And chalk always looks good on the board right down until it's a little nub that you can't use anymore, unlike the markers that slowly fade as they are used up and gradually become more and more difficult for the people in the back to see.
This is amazing. It's like revisiting all the crappy tech that was in my schools, from a different perspective.
Remember when for a short time those giant bulky ActivBoards became a thing? And every time they booted up they made that old Windows boot up sound so loud it made THX seem tame? And those things had a problem like at least once a month. I haven't seen 'em since elementary school, I think they went out of fashion pretty damn fast for good reason. I do kinda miss CoolMathGames on the old CRT computers during rainy days and mice with the rubber balls instead of lasers though, somehow feels nostalgic.
Oh yeah I remember those they were fun. And if I remember correctly they were USB 1.0 maybe 2.0 and you had to have the projector in just the right spot are you have to recalibrate the whole thing.
This is awesome!!!! 😂😂😂thanks for the laughs for us teachers who totally get it 👩🏻🏫👩💻👨💻👩🏽💻👨🏫🧑🏿🏫
The best advice I was given when on teaching practice (for an honours degree in design & technology (u.k.)) was if a teacher comes to you and asks if you can repair or make something DON'T, instead offer to show them how to do it and lend them the tools - they won’t ask again.
If you ever say yes you become the school’s maintenance person.
It worked 🙂
Cut out by Jack Torrance. I'm dying 😂
In every classroom everywhere. Thanks for the chuckle.
Sooo true, sooooo funny, thank you for always putting a smile on our faces...🌸
Really liked his work in Last Man On Earth.
i get "this man is dying inside and this is a cry for help" vibes from this vid
10/10
"this is nothing, nothing at all, dont even try" NOW I HAFTA BRUH
Had technology for the first time, but all the wires are missing. Real life.🤯
"This is hand drawn!"
He looked so dead inside while saying that.
I was. Quit shortly after I filmed this lol
@@DevinSiebold good.
in class rn, ac for the whole school is out again, sure you can relate.
Used to install tech in classrooms for a living and this guy sounds like the PM who would stay behind afterward to give training on the equipment. I never witnessed that training, so this is now the head canon I never knew I needed. Thanks
This is very real and honest advice
Handing this to my teacher wife. I know I've heard at least a couple of these.
Ah, yes, I remember getting pages of auto mechanic manuals from the auto shop on the printer in my English classroom. As for the rest. Are you sure you weren't teaching in my room?
Oh my goodness. I love watching these. They are soooo funny 🤣. I am always laughing out loud because these are the exact kinds of thoughts that I have all the time in my classroom, at my school, and as a teacher in general. 🤣🤣🤣 Too perfect!!!
my mom is a teachr so I’m totally sending her this lmao 🤣
0:06 when I was in middle school, my teacher had all the lights off one day. For the rest of the year we made him turn off all the lights every day.
Deep cut reference on Jack Torrance. I think your observations are spot on. Stay safe, I enjoy your content.
Hilarious 😆 Thank You to all the teachers who are willing to learn how to use & wear an FM system though... It makes the whole world of difference to our hearing impaired kiddos 💕🙏🥰
“Y’know, because everyone wants to steal a 240p Hiatachi from 2002” 🤣🤣
This guy has "jerryrigeverything.mp3 sound_default" installed in his system
Menopause!!! OMG, you are hilarious AND spot on!
You sir are now my spirit animal.
Ahh, a classic American classroom
OMG I'm from Chile and this so relatable!
Is that a laserdisc player? Love those things, they're like the giant foam finger of optical media.
This made my am. Sharing with all my teacher friends!
Having worked in tech support for the school system I can assure you the teachers are the ones stealing the batteries because they never want to call who is in charge to replace them and it's easier for them to steal them from another class.
Janitor also isn't stealing the remotes it's teachers that will have a dead battery and so walk into another classroom to replace them. 90% of projector remotes work on other projectors too as long as it's the same brand.
Alot of the wiring is setup for a specific jack as well they're not setup to be hot swapped... If you call IT they will usually be more than happy to explain what those jacks do and why you can't remove them.
Most of the equipment that gets purchased by the county was cause some uppity teacher thought it would improve their lessons, didn't really consult with IT and had it purchased from the lowest bidder at the lowest quality so now you're stuck with this jank POS until the end of time cause the school won't justify buying replacements... Also no one really needed or wanted this equipment except that one teacher that probably spends more times in meetings than actually teaching.
I think students steal batteries. Some of the tech and curriculum is bought from friends companies.
I'm also a district IT worker. What you say is 100% accurate.
notice the hole.
notice the gaping hole.
You are so right on the money lol. I laughed so hard my ribs hurt.
Dude, you are NAILING this stuff.
Imagine him being your teacher and randomly finding this video
Do you really think they kept him after making this video on how bad the school stuff is lol 😆
I guess I always have a hangover because I never turn the lights on. 😀
I started teaching in 1979. Retired now but glad to know things haven’t changed! 😂
Thank you RUclips for this blessing
As a student, my school district had almost all of these things.
2:29 I swear when I was in HS no one used that since it never locks. That’s a real struggle lmao!
I'm in love with you n yr sarcasm....u r awesome.....
it’s nice to see that literally nothings changed since i left high school
The way you pronounced Hitachi as "Hiya-Tachi" made me die a little, and I'm not even Japanese.
Also, your projector is from Seiko EPSon, which is a lot better.
For goodness sakes!! I can’t believe your outlets look exactly like mine! How is that possible! All of them have holes around them! I secretly believe parts of Jimmy Hoffa are secreted behind these outlets all over the country. (Gangsters are not known for their carpentry skills). One thing you have that I dearly wish I had, are outlets where the plugs stay in. With mine, I have to use masking tape to tape the thing I’m plugging in (usually a 10 plug outlet strip) to the outlet. It is very precarious (tip toes only or the whole thing falls out). And best off all it looks like a small horizontal termite mound about 1 foot off the linoleum floor. Fun times!
I hope you are kidding. That's an electric hazard. Replacing a worn outlet is easy. Just make sure you turn the power off first. There are many instructional videos online.
@@nicholas8479 nope, I’m not kidding. That’s how all the outlets look like in my school. It’s a huge pain. I certainly cannot fix it. I’m an art teacher not an electrician. I wouldn’t know where or how to shut the power off. I could ask the custodians. But I’m saving all my requests for when I need paper towels. As an art teacher I NEED PAPER TOWELS. And the custodians have control of the paper towel supplies.
@@lisasfriends I understand if you don't want to change the outlets. But in case someone says it's a big deal...it's not. The pinching clips inside the outlet get worn out over time and stop holding the plugs securely. A new outlet is very cheap...maybe a dollar.
Funny, I heard the paper towel struggle from other teachers.
You have captured my entire life!
Why do I love this so much
I've got a feeling nobody in the comments gets that this is a reference to Technology Connections.
I do!
you forgot to mention the low-frequency CRT display that is used to broadcast the school's weekly news... that also destroys students' ears because of its frequency, and the teacher doesn't even know how to turn it off
And the old Epson projectors from anywhere around 2002 - 2009 that constantly flash "Clean filters" and "Replace bulb" because the teachers don't know how to fix it, and don't care enough to get an underpaid IT guy to come fix it.
He is just so calm about it it’s crazy
You are too funny! I laughed so hard at the last 2 videos I've seen that I started choking on my food😂