The post "Special K" (December 1st, 2008), outlined the classwork policies of my school's technology teacher. I think, if only for the purposes of this blog, having written evidence of student (non)achievement is an educational priority. A sampling of the work that sixth grader S has submitted in technology class follows:
Assignment 1:
Write a 300 word composition comparing and contrasting two videos seen in class.
S's response:
The 2 video were good but the differents in that you can change the color...it's almost like a smart boared....it wasen't a touch screen.
Assignment 2:
Answer the following questions in complete sentences, providing evidence from the reading.
1. Who should use Touchlib?
2. How is Tbeta unique?
S's response:
1. to see how to use a touch screen
2. by being unique
Assignment 3:
What is your favorite video game? Describe which elements of game design discussed in class make the game enjoyable.
S's response:
My favorite game is grand theft auto., because the music is great, the mission is even beter. The object of the game is to get money for his sick brother. So you have to do mission that get you in a lot of troble by the police. The graphic is really cool. And the killing is cool.
To be fair to S, the third assignment can almost be considered complete and semi-coherent.
I now have reason to believe in educational karma, or irony at the very least: The original version of this post was to begin with the words "S is not my student...". I was informed just this morning that, at his mother's request, S is now officially a music student due to his "poor performance" in technology class.
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3 comments:
1) Describe using complete sentences how this blog can simultaneously be both humorous and depressing?
Answer: By being humourus and depressing, son.
This one's pretty terrible, Mr. F. Good to know you're still alive though.
I hope "terrible" in this instance describes the situation described and not the quality of my post.
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