What Do You Do When a Student Mentions a Murder?

Andrea: [00:00:00] Host teacher. You're not gonna tell her like, I burned the school down a little bit. She was probably thinking like, I am probably getting sued for this, so I should probably not admit any guilt.

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Hey, teacher besties. Welcome to How to Survive the Classroom. I am Guys, guys, guys, guys. I don't usually fan girl. When I meet celebrities or people that are like famous or anything like that, like I feel like there's a couple of genres of people that I feel like we're like, okay, like you were [00:01:00] very important in my.

Life for some reason, right. Or the content they created or something like that. So I already told you guys about the Dane Cook interaction that I had going to the Washington shows. It was so exciting. I was just like. Fangirling so hard. Um, but then I had my show in Potstown, Pennsylvania, which I had a lot of people get very in their feelings about the fact that I said, it's Philly and I love Philadelphia.

Philadelphia would not be harmed by association with Pottstown. It is such a cute little spot. Um, it definitely does not have the same vibe as Philly, so I do understand people being like, this is not, that's not the same thing. 'cause it's not truly, it is not. Um, but it is on the outside. I think it took me 45 minutes from landing at the Philly airport until I got to the show in Potstown and I had found out ahead of time that.

My show is a matinee. And then the night show, there were two shows happening, um, both with Patrick Warburton and if you don't [00:02:00] know his name, you absolutely would recognize his voice because Patrick Warburton is the guy who voiced Cronk from Emperor's New Groove. He also voiced, um. Uh, one of the guys on American Dad, he like, and I did not, it's kind of one of those things like when you buy a car, you start seeing that car everywhere you go.

Um, after I got to meet him, I feel like every show my kids watch. Patrick Warburton was a voice on it. Um, and it was so fun. So I did my set in Potstown and it went really, really well. I got to meet, um, some of our listeners of the podcast and got to see a lot of really amazing people. Um, and then the guy who runs Soul Joel there, he actually let me hang out and so I got an introduction to Patrick Warburton.

And got to watch his set, um, and all of that, which was phenomenal. And I just have to tell you guys, like, I, like I said, like normally I'm like really cool, like I can be. Cool about [00:03:00] meeting people and like super laid back. And I'm not gonna like fan girl because you're just a, you're just a guy. Um, but unfortunately I didn't really get to talk to him, talk to him until after his set and during his set he talks about his career and I had not even realized ahead of time all the things he's been in.

He was in Seinfeld, he was in all of these different things, and now he's doing standup and. He talks a lot about being a mid-level celebrity, which I could actually see, even though his voice is so recognizable. Um, if you were just to see him, you wouldn't automatically know that. He is who he is. Um, because it's been a long time since, you know, I think that he's done pretty like main character type roles, um, where his face is like there, right?

Um, and so I was sitting in the back and a lot of times at these comedy shows, they will ha like this, the person who's going to be the headliner will come and stand in the back before they're introduced, just so you don't miss your cue. You don't want like that super awkward long walk, [00:04:00] right? Um. And so I'm sitting in the very back because it was a sold out show.

Both were sold out shows and I'm sitting in the very back and he's like pacing a little bit and he sat down next to me and I'm like, Andrea, you can do this. Say hi. Don't be weird. Say hi. And I was like, hi, I'm Andrea. I did the four. I did the four o'clock show. And he's like, what? Because like the other comic was up.

And I'm like, oh my gosh, now I'm embarrassed. I'm like, I'm Andrea. I did the four o'clock. And he is like, oh, cool. And he was like, so nice. I was like, it's so nice to meet you. How'd it go? And I was like. It went great. And he's like, great. Yeah. And then I'm like, yeah,

like it felt so awkward and I'm like, I shouldn't have said hi, but like he was unbothered. And it's so funny because I've had people talk to me like there was somebody at my CrossFit gym who was like, yeah, I like Fangirled really hard when I first met you. And I'm sure that I just like embarrassed myself.

And I'm like, I have no memory of that event. So I'm sure it was like that. But then after the show. I had hung out and the guy who owns the place, like didn't know that I had introduced myself awkwardly before he [00:05:00] went up. Um, which is also like kind of a taboo thing to do. Like before somebody goes up, you, they kind of need to be like focused and I also screwed that up.

Um, but after the show he did meet and greet for, for people and then I kind of hung back and it sounded like there were like friends of his from back in the day that were hanging out and waiting. Um, but I went over and I was like, Hey. And I was like, do you do TikTok? Which felt like the most embarrassing thing to ask of all time.

Okay. Like, because even though that's how I got there, even though that's how I make money, even like I still feel like a 12-year-old saying, do you do tiktoks to Patrick Warburton? And he looked at me and he is like, I mean, yeah, I, you know, my. My kids keep telling me that, you know, I need to be on social media and stuff.

So I have somebody that does it for me. 'cause I'd seen, he'd been posting and I was like, oh, okay, cool. Any chance you'll do a video with me? You guys, my discomfort made the whole situation so much more uncomfortable for all of [00:06:00] us because I was like, do you think maybe you would do a TikTok with me? And he kinda looked at me kind of weird and I'm like, okay.

So, and I, I wanted to explain to him why this TikTok is funny. And so I like word vomited. I was like, so I'm a teacher content creator, and I do tiktoks mostly for like teacher comedy and stuff. And I just, you know, I like, one of the jokes that we always have as a teacher is that when someone's like being really repetitive in their essays, okay, I've said all of this right at this point, and I can tell he's just like looking at me like.

Lady. I'm like, so like, you know, we, we say that it's like a poison for Cusco thing, like cuscos poison. And he kind of, he is like, oh. And I was like, so all I need you to do, like I'm gonna say my line. And then you say your line and he is, and the Cusco line. And he's like, sure.

And he did it and it was great. And I was so glad. Um, and. But you guys, I was so embarrassed, and it's so funny because it's not something that I think he even [00:07:00] was uncomfortable with. If somebody asked me to do a TikTok with him, I would not think anything of it. But I was genuinely just like, he's like a real celebrity from Hollywood and all of that.

But again, he's just a guy. But for some reason I was so like very Twitter paid and was just like, oh my gosh. So thanks. Yeah. Okay. Thank you so much.

Oh my gosh, it was so bad, but it was, it was genuinely so, so, so fun seeing him do a standup. If he does come through your town, go see it. Um. I will say that it's, it's not a clean show, um, which I thought it might be just because, and my show also, by the way, is not a clean show. Um, but I thought his might be because the name of it was still Catholic, of, of his tour.

Um, and it's not a clean show. Um, but it was so, so good. But I do like to try and have that little ca caveat because I've had a few people that came to my shows and because my content online is edited for online formats, um, they're like, oh, I didn't think there was [00:08:00] gonna be anything. And I'm like. Really, you didn't think there was gonna be anything at all.

Um, and then they always tell me that Leanne Morgan makes a lot of money by being clean. And I'm like, thank you. I'm so happy for her. But the great thing about comedy is we all do it our own way. Um, but yeah, it just guys, guys, guys, guys. Um, so I got very Twitter paid and fangirled a little bit over Patrick Warburton, but he was amazing and you guys should go see him if he comes to your town because I know he's, his tour is kind of everywhere.

Um, and I mean, it's Cronk. How can you not? How can you not support cro? And truly after I saw him, and now since we're co-stars 'cause we did a PO a video together, I've every time. He, his voice came on my TV this weekend. I was like, oh, it's my friend Patrick. My, my mom was like, I don't think he's your friend.

I was like, he's my friend. We're costars Actually, we were in a, we were in, in a TikTok together, so actually we're costars. Thank you so much for respecting my profession. Um, so yeah, big, big fan. 10 outta 10. Um, as I'm [00:09:00] recording this, my kids just went back to school. Which, you know, feels a little bit early, um, but by the time you guys listen to this, probably everybody's kids are back to school.

Um, and my son started kindergarten, so thoughts and prayers for his teacher. Um, she's a first year teacher and I went to back to school night and I. Don't know how many people I've seen who have looked quite as terrified as this poor woman did. Um, and she's not like a super young teacher. She looks like, I think she's probably already had another career and she's retired now and was like an assistant or something last year and now she's teaching the kindergarten class.

And she kinda was like at the open house and I was like, how are you? And she's like, I'm very nervous. And I was like, you're gonna do great. And the great news is after you've had my son in your class. It will only get easier. And she's like, oh. And I was like, no, it's great. She's like, oh, I, I'm sure I'll love him.

And I was like, you will. And that won't be the problem. He, everybody loves him, but he's, he's, he is himself. So, yeah. Uh, first day of school stuff and my, my suite older daughter started first grade and, [00:10:00] um, we went to back to school for both of them and the back to school night. During the turn, the teacher's like introduction and stuff.

She asked if anybody had questions. My daughter raised her hand like very firmly. The teacher's like, yes. And my daughter goes, I have two questions. First question, why do we need earbuds? And that had already just been answered. Um, and she's like, oh, well, you know, can anyone help? And all of that. And like, and then the teacher tried to move on.

My daughter raised her hand again. Um, actually I said I had two questions, remember? And started asking her second question. And I was like, oh, oh, reel it, reel it back there. Sweet girl. Reel it back. You're actually not in charge of this classroom. Um, but don't tell her that because she is pretty sure that she is.

So, um, I also, by the way, I would love to hear your guys' back to school stories as we roll into fall. I wanna know everything that you guys are dealing with. 'cause I feel like, especially elementary teachers, those just rough diamonds that come into your class who [00:11:00] don't know how to be a human yet. Oof that.

That's a lot. So I wanna hear all about it. Um, alright, so speaking of hearing things from you guys, we have some amazing voice memos that were sent in. So let's jump in to the first one. Back when I was first teaching, 

Voicemail: I was teaching a high school sophomore speech class. I was teaching English and speech and um, we had a demonstration speech.

This was back when you had the projector on the wall and you had to roll it in and you can cook it up to your computer. Well, anyway, the girl giving the speech lived across the street and she said, oh, I'm picking up my home. She gives a speech about how to download music from Lyo. Oh, you can also download videos.

She clicks on a link and it is full on porn, penis and vagina, naked bodies everywhere. Um, kids saying, oh no, what's happening Mrs. Hyatt? Is he hurting her? My eyes, my innocent. The whole thing was, um, absolutely horrifying. I jumped in front of the projector [00:12:00] on my back. They later told me, um, at the end of it, I basically told class, I will not be your teacher tomorrow.

It was a lot of fun, but I'm going to lose my job. Went up, told the principal, she did nothing but laugh and not really help me. Um, long story short, the kids did not tell on me. Um, apparently they wanted to keep me. I kept my job and no, not one parent called, um. The whole thing is, the whole detailed story is pretty funny, but that is what I survived as a high school teacher.

Now retired, oh 

Andrea: my gosh, I, that is something I. Every time that I like and to much a much milder extent, anytime I'm like showing a YouTube video, I'm worried about ads that are gonna be like about tampons or lubricant or perimenopause or something like that. Because that is the biggest fear, right? That you're watching something and then the ads come up that are gonna be something specific.

Or what if I bought lingerie for my husband and then [00:13:00] now there isn't gonna be an ad about lingerie that shows up. So much worse though. I, I'm, I'm trying to imagine in this moment what it would be like to have a student have control of it and that to go on also what a callback limewire is. Hmm. Back in the day, I think that I probably crashed two desktop computers with illegal downloads from Limewire.

I think it, there was like a lot of Backstreet Boys. There were a few like concert renditions of different bands that I really liked and so I couldn't, you know, afford to go get them or possibly, and probably, sorry, mom and dad, they might have been parental guidance ones and I was trying to be sneaky and so I would download the parental guidance advisory ones and burn them onto a disc and it would be like summer hangout.

[00:14:00] Session and it would just be like scrawled across the top on Limewire. Um, you know what's funny is one of the things that my high school that we did as like an end of year thing, everyone had to do, and I actually love this idea by the way. If you have never done a portfolio at the end of the year, it can be really good.

The challenges is if your class sizes are huge, then it's really hard to make this a doable thing. Um, but the school I graduated from, they always had an end of year. Um, portfolio and you would also be interviewed by a panel of people and you had to go through something that you felt was going to be related to your profession.

Okay. And so for some people, if they were going into medicine, maybe they would do like a science experiment and would explain why it relates to the medicine that they're gonna practice. Right? So it's really cool. It's supposed to have real world application. Um, when I worked at the private school later in my career, they still did that, but they actually brought in people from various.

Like there was um, like an [00:15:00] oceanography institute in our area and so if there were kids that wanted to get into stem, they would be the ones in the panel asking questions and stuff. Very, very cool. Also, like was, had the potential for internships and stuff like that. 'cause these are seniors getting ready to go to college.

Right. Very cool. Um, this is just so symptomatic of the kind of student I was in high school. What I decided that I wanted to do. Was I was going to do a makeover and I was going to show people how to do makeup. And here's the thing, guys, I did not know what I was doing. I had a lot of confidence. I had a lot of, of, um.

Desire to do good. But this was, here's the thing. This was before YouTube tutorials. At YouTube. At this point, my friends were just like uploading videos of themselves jumping in bushes because jackass was the thing at the time. So there wasn't like any real place to get guidance. And this was like heavily 2004, 2005.

So my makeup [00:16:00] tutorial was probably like a very cakey foundation that didn't match my neck. Very bright, bright blush, um, eyeliner, black eyeliner that went all the way underneath. All the way above. Probably some really dark, dark smoky with big air quotes, um, eyeshadow with some really bright white highlights in there somewhere.

And just so much eyeliner. So much eyeliner. I had so many people. And the eyeliner thing I fear is. More recent than I would like it to be. If you go back to my early videos as a content creator, I still was rocking that, that dark, dark eyeliner all the way around. I thought Avril Levine was like the coolest and most beautiful girl in the whole world, and she was a skater girl.

And I thought that was so cool. I want, there were moments of aspiration that I was like, I'm gonna be a skater girl. I'm gonna do it guys. I'm gonna take it down. I'm gonna go to the skate park. Because I had a couple of friends that skateboarded and had like half pipes in their backyard and [00:17:00] stuff. No, I never did that.

I roller bladed, which is decidedly less cool. I. I don't think it's less cool anymore. At the time, it was seen as way less cool. Um, and roller derby really wasn't a thing yet. And so I think I probably would've gotten heavily into roller derby if that had been a thing in those days. But I was very heavily into black eyeliner all the way around, all the way until probably guys, I, I hate to say it, but 2021 was probably when I, I finally diverged, and it was because of bullying on the internet.

Can you believe that somebody bullied me and was like, Andrea. Well, I dunno if we wanna call this bullying. Somebody on the internet told me that my eyeliner was equivalent to the jean dresses that you see on older teachers. And I was like, wow, that hurt. But maybe I needed to hear that. And so from then on, I, I, I went on a journey of figuring out how to do my eyebrows and my eyeliner a little bit better.

So there you go. You know it sometimes class projects. Are not [00:18:00] demonstrating what you hope they would and do not lead to future professions. But who knows? Maybe the girl that accidentally showed porn to the entire class. Maybe she went to film school one day or became a cybersecurity person. Who's to say at this point?

I would actually love to know where that girl ended up. 'cause you know that she remembers that. I'm sure she was mortified too. 'cause like were those downloaded videos on her computer or were those ones that she was, that were like in the marketplace? 'cause. If they were downloaded, that's even worse. Um, all right.

So what a journey we went on with that voice memo. Um, but let's go ahead and jump into the second voice memo that was sent into us this week. 

Voicemail: Okay. I think I have the best student teacher story for you. This is a place almost 20 years ago, and I am an art teacher, so I was placed in an art classroom for student teaching.

And at the time we were only teaching in the afternoons, and I had just finished teaching. My first lesson and my mentor teacher calls me the next morning and just very [00:19:00] abruptly says, do not come in today. You are not allowed to be here. So I'm thinking, oh my God, I was so horrible. She fired me. Like I tried asking her why I can't come in, and she just, you know, frantically says, I can't answer your questions.

Just turn on the tv. So I go and turn on the TV and on the local news channel there is my school surrounded by firetruck with a caption on the bottom of the screen that says Art teacher burned down classroom. So turns out she was melting wax on a hot plate before school. She left the art room to go to another building to check her mailbox, and she came back in and the art room was on fire.

Nobody really knows how it caught fire. Um, but fun fact, when there is a real fire, your sprinkler systems are going. To engage. So anything that wasn't destroyed by the actual fire was ruined from all the water damage that happened. Uh, so now I have this intense fear. I will never use wax or hot plates in my own art room all these years later because I will not burn down my [00:20:00] classroom like my mentor teacher did while I was student teaching.

Andrea: Oh, oh my gosh. Can you guys even imagine like number one, what, what the heck? Host teacher, you're not gonna tell her like, I burned the school down a little bit. She was probably thinking like, I am probably getting sued for this, so I should probably not admit any guilt. Um, and it's so funny that you're like, she left the hot plate on and that started the fire.

Um, and then you're like, I don't, we don't know exactly how it started. We do, we do. She left the hot plate on and it started a fire. I dunno about you guys, but I think that actually was. The impetus for me, I dunno about you guys as if everyone is also A DHD. Um, I got diagnosed with A DHD like I've talked about many times, like only a couple years ago.

Um, the thing that actually motivated me. To get medication for it was because I had left a burner on, um, and it didn't start a fire, but things were starting to smoke a little bit [00:21:00] and I have kids. And so it was one of those things where I was like, okay, I'm probably at the point of my life. Right now with as many things as I'm balancing that it's time, like I can, I can admit it, that I, you know, need a little bit of help with focus and all of that kind of stuff.

Like at the point at which I'm putting my family at risk of a burning building that's, that feels like maybe it's time to just get over myself and get medication. Um, but yeah, I, I'm trying to think with, I mean, and that's the thing with. Science teachers and art teachers. I feel like you guys are the ones who actually deal with physically dangerous stuff.

Um, as an English teacher, I have to be really creative if I'm gonna bring danger into the classroom. And sometimes that, you know, sometimes that's what you gotta do to get kids interested. Um, but I was always a little bit jealous when. It would be like a really beautiful day outside, and I would look out there and I would see the science teacher standing on top of the building, dropping eggs or DR.

Or like shooting off rockets or something like that. Like [00:22:00] could I navigate a way to potentially. Make that happen, maybe. But it's gonna be a lot harder to justify doing something like that than if I were a STEM teacher making, you know, rockets and all of that. Although art is a really cool way of doing it too.

Um, I am a little curious what they were doing with wax melting. Like, were they making candles, were they. Were they like doing one of those things? Because all I think of when you said that was like the, the art that was a little bit popular for a while where people like taped a bunch of crayons and then took a hairdryer.

But it sounds like that's not the situation here. 'cause if it was a hairdryer, there would not have probably been a fire. Um, in my first year teaching, I had the closest I ever got. To something quite like that was when, um, there was a bomb threat at the school. And so I had to, um, I was a provisional provisional [00:23:00] teacher since I never had a student teaching year.

Um, I was a provisional teacher and I didn't know what I was doing, but I did like one day they were like, Hey, everyone needs to get out now. And that's all they told us. They wouldn't tell us what the deal was. They said, leave your stuff, get outta the building. So we did. Um, but part of my stuff was my car keys.

And so myself and this other brand new teacher, we both were brand new to, to the school and all of that. We had left our keys in our classroom and we left and they ended up sending all the kids home. The buses came, all the kids left. And so it was just the teachers who had left their keys in the building and they had to get the bomb squad there and they had to do like the bomb sniffing dogs and like all of that stuff.

And eventually they cleared it. Um. So thankfully there was no actual fire that occurred, but that is a, a pro tip for you teachers. If you ever do get evacuated from your building, don't grab all of your stuff. Does not include probably your wallet or keys. I would still grab my wallet and keys if it's safe to do so, because after that I was, every time I get [00:24:00] evacuated or anything like that, I'm like, I'm not gonna get stuck here.

'cause I was there till like 8:00 PM because we had to wait for, um, like federal. People to come and, 'cause we were in a very rural area. There was like no one there. Um, so it was me and this girl sitting in the parking lot for hours and hours and hours waiting for the bomb squad to clear our classrooms.

And, um, I think what ended up happening actually is they didn't even clear it before we get our keys. We just told 'em where our keys were and they, the bomb squad guys like brought our keys out to us so we could go home. Um, but yeah, there you go. So, you know, lots of life lessons for you guys. You know, you're gonna have to make sure you bring your keys out and don't leave any.

Of those hot pads on. I also am all constantly terrified. I'm gonna burn my house down even now with my medication. So I did, I got one of those things guys, this is actually very exciting. Um, we're gonna go to break in a second, but I have to tell you about this. Um, it's like when you're at the, um, hair salon and they have like a little shelf and they have a little metal part of the shelf and that you can put like your curling iron and stuff in there.

I got [00:25:00] one of those so that I don't burn my house down. So fingers crossed that it works and I, um, keep us all safe because there were a few times where I would like curl my hair and I would leave it on the counter and I would leave it next to like. What is probably an alcohol based perfume bottle and a box of tissues, and it just seems like I'm really, I was really flirting with danger there.

So, um, speaking of flirting with danger, question mark, who's to say maybe it's flirting with danger? Um, we are gonna take a look at a very cool, uh, classroom resource that I found for you right after this.

Welcome back, teacher besties. I know you enjoyed that seamless transition, um, and teaser for what I'm gonna share with you guys. Um, so I have recently come across a bunch of different AI checkers, um, and I'm gonna share one with you now. The one that I found on line. I don't know if this is the same one.

So I saw a [00:26:00] video, I saw an Instagram reel. I shared it to my stories and stuff, where it is a plugin that will monitor how long someone is working on a text. So if you are, if you share a document with somebody, you can see the edit history. So you can see what's been pasted in and what's been edited. If someone is working on there and typing up their essay, then it should come one word at a time, right?

Um, but if it looks like somebody has like just. Flopped in a big group of text onto the document and then gone back and edited a few things. It'll show you that. Um, and I'm looking at right now, quill bot.com. So there's Quill Bot for Chrome. There's Quill Bot for all sorts of stuff like that. Now here's the thing, as with almost all of these, Quill Bot is also an AI writer.

AI paraphraser. It has an AI humanizer, and so that is the challenge that we're dealing with right now across all levels of school, is that we are not only dealing with. [00:27:00] Students that are just typing it into chat GPT, because I think at this stage they know that that's kind of obvious. Um, and they might go in and make a couple changes, but something like Quill Bot, where it's got a grammar checker, but it also has, um, the ability to try and humanize it.

And the more that people are using these, it's gonna be easier for te for them to get away with it essentially. Um, and so my recommendation for you guys, if you're gonna do something on computers, um, and have them type something up. Outside of class is to try and use some of these. I, it depends on your school, how you're gonna handle it.

Um, I know some schools are very, very strict about the way the AI is used. I just saw a news article actually that talked about how in the state of. I think in the state of Illinois, they recently came out with a law that therapists and AI chatbots cannot work as a therapist, and that therapists are limited in how they can use [00:28:00] chatbots to complete their practice, which I think is fascinating for a few reasons.

Um, number one, I think the attempt to. Manage the legality of how working professionals who are licensed in these fields use the tools available to them. I feel like, feels to me like there's somebody with money at stake who. Is going to try and monetize the access to these resources or these working professionals, because right now chat, GBT, all of that, there's a lot of free resources like Quill Bot out there that you can access.

Um, but the fact that that is now being legislated feels to me that there's a lobbyist somewhere that ha there's money in a pot somewhere that someone is trying to get. Um, and here's the thing with AI in general, like every profession. Is using AI in some [00:29:00] fashion. Um, you know, ev even if you're in a trade.

I would be surprised if there are not electricians that come across something that they're not sure about. Take a picture, upload it to chat GBT and be like, can you tell me what this is about? Right. Because that's the thing is you need the knowledge to implement these things. A lot of times that chat, GPT can't necessarily give you, it might be able to walk you through some steps and stuff.

Um, but I, I saw recently somebody. Was posting about as a teacher using chat GPT to create resources and stuff, and someone was like, well see no need for teachers, blah, blah blah. And I'm like, that's like saying there's no need for doctors because they also use AI software for diagnostics and stuff like that.

Like that. Do you understand how crazy that is that like implementation? Is the most important step of teaching like that is what teaching is like. Yes, you can get the resources, but teaching is more than a worksheet and your thought that you could just implement whatever it spits out automatically just shows your [00:30:00] misunderstanding of what teaching is and what education is.

Um. And so I, I do wanna put this out there that Quill Bott could be a resource for you. Um, it does have options that can plug into Microsoft Word, windows, Chrome. They have a premium version, all of that kind of stuff. They do have a citation generator. And let me tell you the wave that I wish I. I had a citation generator when I worked on my dissertation.

Oh my gosh. Because that is the worst part of a, a dissertation, um, is getting all those citations together. But, you know, a, as, as we are navigating this, and I know more and more we're all getting concerned about the. The way that AI is impacting our world and energy resources and all of that. Um, I would encourage you guys to do as much as you can on paper and pencil.

Um, I know that that seems like kind of an old school way of viewing things, but to be honest, even before I left a couple years ago from the K 12 classroom, I had already moved to that as soon as we got back from the pandemic, and I saw the way that kids checked out the second they opened their Chromebooks.

I was done. I was like, Nope, we're gonna [00:31:00] do it on paper. And it doesn't have to be something where you're making a packet every week. You could, 'cause I know some teachers love that. Um, I had prompts that I knew that they could do in a spiral bound notebook. And so I would go at the beginning of the year and I would buy like 200 spiral bound notebooks.

They all wrote their name on it. I had a crate at the front of the, the classroom. And the prompts would be up on board. On the board, and then they would just respond to the prompts in the notebook. Um. It's not a perfect system because obviously they could access that stuff with their phones and all of that.

But if you can get your students to at least do those initial drafting stages, the initial brainstorming critical thinking stages off of a computer, you're far less likely to be dealing with. AI chatbots because let's be honest, like the second you have your Chromebook open, it's just easy. It's just easier, right?

Like just to do that. And I've caught myself being like relying too heavily on stuff like that when I could have probably just thought it out. Right. Um, so just a couple of things that I wanted to point you guys towards and a little bit of a soapbox because it just [00:32:00] infuriates me when people are like, well, AI can create lesson plans, so why do we need teachers?

And I was like, you're dumb. Disrespectfully, you're dumb. Um, alright guys, so the hill that I will die on this week, and I'm gonna tell you right now that this is gonna make some people a little upset and I'm sorry about that, but I'm not that sorry 'cause this is the hill I will die on. You are not an empath.

You lack appropriate and healthy emotional boundaries. You are codependent. You are. I'm so sorry. Every single person I know that's like, but I'm an empath and I'm like. Okay, but like. Ah, are you? Because having empathy for people is a good thing. Like it's a good, healthy thing, right? But every person I've known who has called themselves an empath, has communicated in a way that shows me and tells me that they don't feel like they have control or.

A way to mitigate [00:33:00] when other people have their feelings, they automatically have to mirror almost as if they've been traumatized into having to feel like they need to mirror as a safety and survival tool. And that is a hill I'm absolutely gonna die on. Um, I wanna very, very, very thoroughly thank every single person who has come to a show.

Um, doing standup is something that I have always been scared of doing. If you've been with me since the beginning, um, you know that it's something I've talked about a lot, but I've been very afraid to do for many reasons. Um, and I just wanna say thank you so, so much for those of you guys who have come to the shows and, um.

I made this dream come true. I'm not gonna cry. I'm gonna get it together. Get it together. Um, esp I just hit my 10th show and for most people I was talking, uh, to Gasper about this 'cause he's doing the teacher's lounge shows with me along with Phil, and for most people that are doing standup, they don't get the opportunities that I have.[00:34:00] 

Until they've been doing it for like a decade or decades and they may never get the opportunity to have a headlining show with 200 people that come and see them. Um, and most of the time people get years and years of practice getting to do this before they're standing in front of 150 people or whoever's there for you.

Um, and I've gotten the opportunity to do that very early on in this process. Um, and so I just wanna say thank you for bearing with me. For those of you guys who went to some of my shows. Especially early on, um, I don't think there's been a bad show, but there definitely have been some shows that I felt like I crushed and other shows that I was like, I could have done a lot better.

Um, so if I do, if you come to a show and um, it, you know, I, and I come back another time, I would encourage you to come back and see me again. 'cause I guarantee you. The shows are only gonna get better. And, um, they're so, so much fun and every, every show, even the shows that I was like, oh, I, I didn't, I didn't crush that one.

I've had people reach out and say, oh my gosh, that was amazing. Thank you so much. It was [00:35:00] just what I needed before, before school, um, because everyone else is allowed to have a learning curve. But me, in case you were wondering. So, um, genuinely thank you guys so much for coming to the shows. I have a bunch of shows coming up.

Um, in the very near future you can go to educator andrea.com/tickets. I've got all of my shows both for the Teacher's lounge where I'm with Gasper and Phil, or my solo shows. Um, the solo shows are gonna be mostly in the Midwest because I am a mom of a five and a 7-year-old, and so I am trying to, as much as possible, limit travel, especially out of state.

And so with the teacher's lounge shows. Um, if you do see us coming to your city, that's probably only gonna happen one time that year. Um, because Gasper and Phil and I all have kids that are that age. Um, we all have a five year-old at home, and then Gasper also has a seven year-old at home. So because of that, we're trying to make sure that we're taking care of our families while still supporting you guys and making you laugh.

And all of that. Um, so make sure that you check out the, the dates that we're gonna be in [00:36:00] town. Um, and we always, always, always have a free meet and greet after the show. Um, the only thing that could stop that from happening is if there's a flight that has to go right after the show. So, for example, if you're coming to my Raleigh show, um, Gasper and Phil are gonna be able to stay for the meet and greet for that, but I'm gonna have to leave because my flight leaves like.

Real quick after the show. So, um, but yeah, thank you guys so much. I so appreciate those of you guys who have come to the shows and supported me and made this dream come true. It has been so incredible and it is always going to be my goal to continue to support teachers and make them laugh and make them feel seen, because that is why I am doing all of this.

Um, and if you have a story of something that has happened in your classroom or that you remember happening when you were a student in a classroom, then you can contact us and submit your voicemail. It's gonna be@podcasterandrea.com, and you can go to the little voicemail section on there, or you can, uh, email us, andrea@humancontent.com, or contact me at Educator Andrea.[00:37:00] 

Or you can contact the whole Human Content Podcast family at Human Content pods. And thank you so much for those of you guys who have left reviews. And if you haven't yet, listen, you need to get it together and leave me a review. Um, but thank you for those of you guys who have already done so. And if you wanna check the full video episodes, they are up every single week on YouTube.

Thank you so much for listening. I'm your host, Andrea Forche. Our executive producers are Andrew Forche. Aaron Corny Gold, Rob Goldman, sorry, Rob and Sean d Brook. Our editor is Andrew Sims. Our engineer is Jason Zo. Our music is by Omer Ben-Zvi, and our recording location is the Indiana State by College of Education.

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