They've already found a way around this with their laptops. They figured out they can use a shared Google doc for notes.
Showerthoughts
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- No politics
- If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
But no privacy tho :(
Considering how frequently kids got caught passing notes and had to read them in front of the class when I was in school, that wasn't exactly a highly private form of communication.
Few schools have an IT department large enough to police all of the Google documents for note passing.
As an online teacher, I can tell you Discord takes care of that.
We used to use net send
Super fun on computer lab day to both communicate with friends and randomly annoy the crap out of others.
Oh boy, that brings me back... After they blocked net send, well, let's just say my school board's internal single sign-on had an SQL injection vulnerability and plaintext passwords...
Btw, story time:
I remember messing around with ciphers like a=z b=y etc... and I share this with another kid. We'd use rubber bands to slingshot folded up paper notes written in cipher to each other during class and in the afterschool program. Like I just get bored and wanna talk to someone, and we both spoke Mandarin so we sort of "connected" with each other quickly. We'd write "fuck you" using this cipher on the whiteboard and we'd laugh... cuz us kids being silly kids...
I accidentaly hit one of the afterschool program staff with those slingshotted "paper bullets", he got mad at me and I got in trouble and I was forced to sit on the carpet while everyone just glanced at me like: "ooh this thoublemaker kid again"
I remember just crying lol
Have you forgotten about DMs and instant messengers? Email?
And then they're less likely to be caught passing them, too.