I was glad that we brought up that when technology doesn’t work, it’s best not to catastrophize things. That behaviour is modelled onto the impressionable students we have, and is not necessarily conducive to solving the problem we have at hand.
Just like in school, parenting, driving…
Origin of this image is from WW2, a poster to encourage British people to trust their army and raise national morale. It was posted before the war started and has been appropriated many times since in home decorations and t-shirt design, the message stays the same. Calmness as a teacher is infectious, as is stress. A philosophy I am hoping to take on in my practice is to always remain calm and solve problems with aa level head, and this will have to apply to technology because it is not always going to work out how we hope at the first time of asking.