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I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

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Re: I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

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sourcepluck wrote: post #30
BadHumans wrote: post #3

Kids are getting scheduling via apps now? The best thing my school ever did for me was give me a paper planner and teach me how to use it. I've finally reached that "back in my day" age. It's a neat project though. I wasn't aware Soldered existed so this is a nice find.

Scheduling, and homework assignments, and textbooks [0], and handing in homework, and communicating absences, and asking the teacher a question later in the day in a groupchat, and the teacher sending an extra thing for everyone to read outside of class even just out of general interest, and communicating with peers about something in another class groupchat where the teacher isn't present, and... Some kids have zero…

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Re: I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

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Post by fn-mote »

resonious wrote: post #23
Izkata wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Quite useful on days the hours/rooms get switched around because a teacher is on leave. > Your paper planner won't inform you that your first hour is in another building tomorrow or that the teacher is ill (and yes, the schedules would change less than 12 hours in advance). That seems like a really odd way of handling it, and more confusing than it needs to be. For me the class was assigned to a specific room, not…

I guess it's a way of handling it that's enabled by the fact that the calendars are electronic. It could be that this way is easier for the school staff, but honestly I have no idea and can't even begin to guess, really.

Even in 2024, schools in major cities experience staffing shortages where there are not enough supposedly-qualified adults to supervise all of the students in their originally scheduled classrooms.

"Solution": class X, Y, and Z all meet in Lunchroom W on Wednesday so one adult can supervise all of them.

Re: I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

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Post by whimsicalism »

II2II wrote: post #25
whimsicalism wrote: post #20

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i don't think there is much value in teaching a paper planner

With many schools banning mobile phones, and similar communications devices, there aren't many alternatives to paper. Also, my elementary school uses paper planners. Given that most elementary schools forbid students from carrying electronics (for no other reason than loss and damage), there isn't much of a choice except paper planners.

sure as long as you are allowed to use your own notebook for planning and not graded based on formatting in a certain way

Re: I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

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Post by paranoidrobot »

BadHumans wrote: post #3

Kids are getting scheduling via apps now? The best thing my school ever did for me was give me a paper planner and teach me how to use it. I've finally reached that "back in my day" age. It's a neat project though. I wasn't aware Soldered existed so this is a nice find.

> It's a neat project though. I wasn't aware Soldered existed so this is a nice find.

Quite neat, indeed.

I was thinking this would make a good display for Home Assistant, and what do you know, someone has built a HA integration for it[1].

This lead me down a bit of a rabbit hole - it's using a "screensaver" set up for the Kindle[2], which also lead me into the info about jailbreaking Kindles.

This adds some projects for over the coming break.

[1] https://github.com/lanrat/homeplate [2] https://github.com/sibbl/hass-lovelace-kindle-screensaver

Re: I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

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Post by soysandwhich »

jeroenhd wrote: post #8
BadHumans wrote: post #3

Kids are getting scheduling via apps now? The best thing my school ever did for me was give me a paper planner and teach me how to use it. I've finally reached that "back in my day" age. It's a neat project though. I wasn't aware Soldered existed so this is a nice find.

This is hardly new. My high school did this over fifteen years ago. This app just shows hour+subject+teacher+room number. Quite useful on days the hours/rooms get switched around because a teacher is on leave. Your paper planner won't inform you that your first hour is in another building tomorrow or that the teacher is ill (and yes, the schedules would change less than 12 hours in advance). It's hardly comparable. A…

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Re: I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

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Post by G_o_D »

Parents are now forced to give their child phones from young age and once child gets phone and internet, we all know what content they would be going to search for, no matter what parenteral controls we keep they will find a way , thats when childs degradation of brain and life starts

Re: I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

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Post by small_scombrus »

> In other words: extracting the information as text and displaying it in a similar way on the e-paper would be … work.

So instead let me:

  1. take a screenshot of the website  
  2. Change the styling of the website as the screenshot is being taken  
  3. Modify the image using headless Inkscape  
  4. Serve the image on a web-server
And I though I liked overcomplicating things while calling it being lazy :D

Re: I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

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Post by zellyn »

BadHumans wrote: post #3

Kids are getting scheduling via apps now? The best thing my school ever did for me was give me a paper planner and teach me how to use it. I've finally reached that "back in my day" age. It's a neat project though. I wasn't aware Soldered existed so this is a nice find.

At my high school in South Africa, in the late 80s/early 90s, we had a two-week schedule, so you had to remember not only which day it was, but whether it was week one or week two!

Re: I replaced my son's school timetable app with an e-paper

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Post by mlinhares »

sourcepluck wrote: post #30
BadHumans wrote: post #3

Kids are getting scheduling via apps now? The best thing my school ever did for me was give me a paper planner and teach me how to use it. I've finally reached that "back in my day" age. It's a neat project though. I wasn't aware Soldered existed so this is a nice find.

Scheduling, and homework assignments, and textbooks [0], and handing in homework, and communicating absences, and asking the teacher a question later in the day in a groupchat, and the teacher sending an extra thing for everyone to read outside of class even just out of general interest, and communicating with peers about something in another class groupchat where the teacher isn't present, and... Some kids have zero…

Isn't it good they don't know these differences? The fact we know is mostly due to poorly designed UX, not some high level concept that needs to be known. Modern phones are a much better UX for most people.
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