He makes a product geared toward teachers. He made a comment about busywork in the classroom and, what appeared to me, to be against this and against activities that hold brighter students back. I find it interesting because using bingo cards in the classroom can easily fall into this category. My comment addressed this apparent disparity. There was nothing uncivil about making an inquiry into this.
It's too bad you don't see something interesting in this. I do and hence made the comment I made. I strongly disagree with your view that my post was inappropriate or should not have been made. I'm not planning to change.
You don't appear to understand how Bingo Card Creator works. Go visit the website. I'll wait.
Back? Did you notice, on the website, the near total absence of advocacy for using bingo cards in lesson plans? Or even how classroom bingo works? Patrick sells BCC passively. His entire marketing system presumes a continuous feed of people who already wanted bingo cards.
The pain point he solves isn't "how to automate classrooms with bingo cards".
It's "how to automate the bingo cards for your classroom bingo day".
There's exactly one argument you can make about Patrick's business that would even be germane to your argument: that classroom bingo is so radioactively evil that simply enabling teachers to do it is harmful. I don't think you believe that. Instead: you didn't like something someone said on a message board, so you went looking for reasons to discredit them. In this case, you failed.
You should have more confidence in your own opinions. You have actual K-12 educational experience; it should be easy for you to use actual logic to refute things people say about it.
1. Man criticizes worthless activities in the classroom.
2. Man creates product to help teachers with their bingo day.
3. Bingo day can be considered to be a worthless classroom activity (I'm such a person. I'd never use bingo in the classroom.)
4. I point out an apparent disparity.
It's ironic that a person who decries worthless classroom activities creates a product to make it easier for people to engage in a worthless activity. I made this clear in my previous post.
What I wrote is quite logical and reasonable. Your second to last paragraph contains assumptions not supported by the evidence.
Next, Mr. Taylor announces it's time for Multiplication Bingo. As Mr. Taylor reads off a problem ("20 divided by 5"), the kids scour their boards, chips in hand, looking for 4's. One girl is literally shaking with excitement. Another has her hands clasped in a prayer position. I find myself wanting to play. You know you're in a good classroom if you have to stop yourself from raising your hand.
For whatever the data point is worth to you, I don't think you have a strongly-held opinion about bingo in classrooms. I think you have strongly-held opinions about anyone who criticizes standard K-12 education orthodoxy.
Bingo obviously can be considered a worthless classroom activity, but so far that seems to be nothing more than your personal opinion, which is not binding on Patrick or other teachers.
I would say it is worthless only if you do not value the students' enjoyment. Teachers usually turn to bingo to help keep students engaged, which is the opposite of what Patrick seemed to be referring to as "busy-work." Accusing somebody of hypocrisy because he violates your standards is not remotely fair or reasonable.
Of course it's my opinion. I think it is a worthless activity. I would never use it. Others would be successful with it. That was my point to Patrick. He found some activities worthless and abstracted that to an opinion about worthlessness in the classroom. In a classroom with 30 people some are going to find virtually any activity worthless. You can't please everyone and so making a general statement about worthless classroom activities is not helpful.
I didn't accuse Patrick of hypocrisy. I accused him of irony. Big difference.
It's too bad you don't see something interesting in this. I do and hence made the comment I made. I strongly disagree with your view that my post was inappropriate or should not have been made. I'm not planning to change.