Warren Smith
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 May
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I thought that was just normal.
Not too much. I mean, I would not, I would, it was more projects like the Queen's Gambit review and I had a colleague, the music teacher, had a passion for camera technology as well. And he was my closest collaborator because we were voc teachers, vocational teachers, meaning we worked with the whole building. We were the only ones that everyone else worked with just their sites.
There was like a culinary teacher, landscaping, and they were always experimenting with the vocations, but music and multimedia always remained consistent. How big a school? Only downstairs, 50 students. Upstairs, about 50 students. Okay.
Well, the ratio was... You said it was three to one, about, eh? That's what they strive for, but they're constantly battling understaffing because teachers just vanish often.
I had been posting little things, just like I was mentioning, like reviews and things, but no one was watching them and no one cared. It wasn't, you know... And working with the music teacher, we would do the mathematics of the Fibonacci sequence in music, things which are still up there. So if you're curious to dig into that, you can, if anyone's watching this.
But to answer your question about how this video came about, so they asked me to do a news broadcast. We're not equipped to do that, but we tried anyways. And they're like, we want this kid to... to be the person on camera and just go through, this is what happened in the school this week. So we go in the room, we go to set it up and he's getting stage fright, camera shy.
He's just, and I think it's very important in teaching to lead by example. So let's just treat, let's just do a warmup. I'll sit on camera, you operate it. Let's just have a conversation. Treat it like a podcast real quick. Let's do like a five minute warmup. Just ask me something that you wanna, that would interest you. Okay, he hits record. Alright, so how have your views on J.K.
Rowling changed given her bigoted opinions? Or how have your views on Harry Potter changed given J.K. Rowling's bigoted opinions? Well, first we need to address that and then just walk through it. And I thought, that's interesting. Maybe I'll try something new with this YouTube thing. I just uploaded it. I was like, that's interesting enough to post. I didn't think anyone would watch it.
Well, first we need to address, is she bigoted? That's the glaring presupposition. Right, right. Right. So that constitutes a loaded question. Right. So what are you basing that upon? Well, you know, I've heard that she has tweets. Okay. Do you have any? I can show you the tweets if you want. Sure. Let's take a look. Dig some tweets out. We read the tweets. Okay. So do you find that?
What about that is transphobic? Okay. And I don't remember the exact tweet. We clarify it. And then he goes, oh, but she did apologize as well for this other thing. There's this other piece of evidence. Okay, let's take a look. Same process. Then we, so I point out, okay, so there's really no much different. There's not much difference between you and her.
You understand that she's stating that it's important to her, her experience as a woman. She has no issue with someone identifying how they want to identify, but that's not going to change. That shouldn't impact her experience and the reality that she's a woman and what that means in reality. No, I agree with that. Okay.
So now looking back at the beginning of this conversation, that claim you made when you call her bigoted, do you think that was a fair thing to say? No. Now I feel stupid. That's okay. That's why we do this. And often I would have interesting conversations when they arose, going back to the idea of, and there was some blowback about that, of why are you having conversations?
Your job is to teach students how to set up cameras and shoot videos and do photo editing and 3D printing and using this technology. But as we just pointed out, there's extreme, if the goal is to use this technology with students in the way that is going to most benefit them,
And there's so much utility in teaching students how to think, how to articulate themselves. And often they have questions about things in the world. I've had students ask me, what's a Republican versus a Democrat? And you're like, you're a senior in high school. We need to talk about it. And then we can kill two birds with one stone. And then we'll have stuff to edit.
And it's things that interest you. So if we're going to say, we need footage to edit, might as well make it interesting. And if we can make it, if we can talk about something that actually matters in the world and you can learn something from it, well, why not?
And you could just film music videos and things, but I... I see more utility. And if a student wants to discuss something like that, I see, you know, that was my reasoning behind it.
So if you're watching, if a student is watching, they shoot a music video and they're watching themselves playback dancing and they're editing that, okay, but when you watch yourself speaking... debating or just... You're learning those oratory skills. You're getting over public speaking right.
There's more utility, I believe, than simply... There's nothing wrong if a student wants to do something like a music video. You could do something creative too, but even then it's got to have a point. Why not encapsulate as much as possible if our objective is to use what we have to help students as best we can?
Well, there's no way for me to know exactly. I think that in a, I think there's a, as you know, most things in life are far more complex than a singular explanation. I think that a lot of it was the virality itself. Given that we're a school where there are some loose practices, there's been things like the two principals just being removed.
There was attacks of scandal a few years prior to my arrival.
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