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But nowadays we have spell checkers to make spelling easy: http://www.latech.edu/tech/liberal-arts/geography/courses/spellchecker.htm
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zoobyshoe said:I don't think it's very common for kids to be given random lists of words and their definitions disembodied from any context to memorize. At least, that never happened to me.
I guess all I can say is I think it's unfortunate when a teacher does this sort of thing, and I hope it's not wide spread. I don't recall it ever happening to me in grammar or high school.collinsmark said:I had a at least one teacher who taught like that. Every Monday in the 9th grade we were given a new list of "vocabulary" words that we needed to memorize along with their definitions. On Friday we were quizzed on them, in the form of a "matching" test: All the words were given and all the definitions were given on a piece of paper, but not in order, and we had to match the words to their appropriate definitions.
I just put it here thinking that since it was something I randomly came up with while browsing images for the sake of fun it was the best place.JorisL said:@Psinter You should start a thread dedicated to that kind of problem.
It could prove an invaluable resource for students and people that aren't very knowledgeable about physics.
I would see it as a motivation for demotivated students as well, the kind that asks "what's the use of all this".
When I have doubts about how a word is pronounced in English I go to an online text-to-speech and put the word there to listen to it. Once I was in a computer lab at uni and it was very silent. A guy took the Google Translator page and put an obscene word there. Turned the computer's volume at max and began to repeatedly click the speaker button. The obscene word was spoken out loud repeatedly by the translator with woman voice while he and a few others laughed. One girl rolled up her eyes and said something like: "How childish. I can't believe these idiots." Only students were there. Is that childish?Ibix said:But nowadays we have spell checkers to make spelling easy: http://www.latech.edu/tech/liberal-arts/geography/courses/spellchecker.htm
I see school boards getting cited so frequently as examples of bureaucracy gone awry that I've come to feel education in the US is doomed.Scott C. said:Today, it seems much of this process is politically or administratively driven by departments of education (elected officials or appointees) needing to be seen addressing issues; ...
zoobyshoe said:I see school boards getting cited so frequently as examples of bureaucracy gone awry that I've come to feel education in the US is doomed.
collinsmark said:I had a at least one teacher who taught like that. Every Monday in the 9th grade we were given a new list of "vocabulary" words that we needed to memorize along with their definitions. On Friday we were quizzed on them, in the form of a "matching" test: All the words were given and all the definitions were given on a piece of paper, but not in order, and we had to match the words to their appropriate definitions.
Also I distinctly recall a particular section of a standardized test* in the verbal section were we were given seemingly random words, and had to guess their antonyms from a list. It could be pretty tough if both the words and the list of antonyms were obscure.
*(Was it in a college entrance exam test like the ACT or SAT? I can't recall for sure).
I was asking because I had a classmate who was sent to a US high school for a year. It was one of the better/ posh schools and she chose to try an English class for native speakers. And she said they used to get lists of words like that, too. She found it interesting as one can obviously expect such methods being used in foreign language classes, but this course was aimed at proper American students.zoobyshoe said:I guess all I can say is I think it's unfortunate when a teacher does this sort of thing, and I hope it's not wide spread. I don't recall it ever happening to me in grammar or high school.
Scott C. said:College educators may have reason to complain regarding the level of incoming students, but the political aim to embrace diversity has been apparently achieved. This a tragedy because those same political forces put forward a laudable objective without supplying commensurate commitment of real resources to achieve this within most venues.
That's typical. There's too much politics and ideology involved in education. And people like to keep the system the same as when they were students. That's perceived as a golden standard and everything new is either a regress or redundant and useless.Psinter said:At my place, once a Kindergarden teacher went to Germany to learn about the Germans' educational system. She liked what she saw and when she came back she asked our government for help to implement in our country's public schools the same K-12 teaching system the Germans were using. But of course the government did not fund the project. Like always.
I know that feeling bro... I mean sis... I mean... The point is I know that feeling .Sophia said:We have got tons of projects on paper but none of them works in real life.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/missouri-veteran-escaped-nazi-prison-camp-gets-medal-134952763.html"We knew he'd been in the war, that he had been captured and that he escaped. That's about it. He didn't talk about it," said Dan Shifrin, who lives in the Denver area. "My guess is he figured it was just part of his life — many went through it, many didn't return. Many of those who did return didn't return in one piece."
Beachgoers in a South Florida town found their terrirory invaded by little purple jellyfish this past week.
Hallandale Beach outside Miami was covered in thousands of sea creatures called Velella velella, which have little sails that normally allow them to steer clear of the shore.
However, the jellyfish, which are also known as "purple sailors" or "by-the-wind sailors" can sometimes find themselves blown toward beaches en masse in a phenomenon that locals say happens every three years or so.
"We are flying our Purple flag for dangerous marine life," the city wrote on its Facebook page Thursday...
Psss... maybe they are planning something.Borg said:I'm curious how the post office can label my package as 2 day priority mail and then tell me that the estimated delivery date is 4 days. Are they really that bad at math?
Like planning on taking their time?Pepper Mint said:Psss... maybe they are planning something.
Yes that is. Otherwise, please seek other services. In my area I use FedEx, for example, which is more reliable.Borg said:Like planning on taking their time?
arent there state holidays in your area?Borg said:Like planning on taking their time?
It doesn't need to be that complicated. I think that it's just simple false advertising.Sophia said:arent there state holidays in your area?
or they consider shipping time only two days between the day you sent it and the day when the recipient gets it. So the "traveling" time is 2 days, while actually it is 4 days :) (1-sending+2 travel+1 recieving=4 days)
She may have a point though. I couldn't get through to the DMV on Friday because it turned out to be Caesar Chavez Day: government offices on holiday.Borg said:It doesn't need to be that complicated. I think that it's just simple false advertising.
You mean the " Like a virgin " part?rootone said:Yeah, 'Madona' sounds a bit suspect as well.
Let them fight it of with Mexicans to see which is spiciest.Sophia said:http://9gag.com/gag/awxvBrD?ref=android spicy food
That's really cold for April! Another random thought.WWGD said:Wow, beginning of April and temperatures today from 27 deg. to 36, high 42.
In NYC we have a grid system with streets going E-W and avenues going N-S and there are good signals and easy to tell if you are in a street or avenue.Sophia said:That's really cold for April!Another random thought.
I'm reading Twilight (yes, THAT Twilight :-) ) and this reminded me of a long term mystery.
How do Americans always know where is East or West? They always say things like : go North or go South. When you are first in a city do you immediately look at the sun trying to guess where did it rise in the morning? And how can you still get the direction of you turn a couple of times?
I know how to determine world sides according to shadows, stars, the way anthills are build or by the moss growing on trees. But how do you use these in a city? And when you are in a hurry! Why not simply say go left or right?
I guess that it also helps the directionally impared know which way they're travelling.WWGD said:In NYC we have a grid system with streets going E-W and avenues going N-S and there are good signals and easy to tell if you are in a street or avenue.
But the tricky thing is that streets alternate driving-wise , going E-W or W-E except for the main ones, which go both ways.Borg said:I guess that it also helps the directionally impared know which way they're travelling.
I think that you would have massive gridlock if they didn't do that. Streets are similar in DC except that it's letters and numbers. N-S streets are numbers and E-W are A, B, C, D, etc. The main trick here is that there are four of everything because the origination point is the capital. So, if someone tells you to meet them at 4th and D, you have to know if they mean NW, NE, SE or SW!WWGD said:But the tricky thing is that streets alternate driving-wise , going E-W or W-E except for the main ones, which go both ways.