FSH 210 Sport
Jetboaters Admiral
- Messages
- 7,004
- Reaction score
- 8,416
- Points
- 492
- Location
- Tranquility Base
- Boat Make
- Yamaha
- Year
- 2020
- Boat Model
- FSH Sport
- Boat Length
- 21
You mean like having to look for a pay phone and carrying enough coinage to make a call? Or perhaps having to go to the library and use the Encyclopedia Britanica to research a term paper? You know that right there, having to use an encyclopedia and having to share the different ones amongst classmates all doing research at the same time and learning how to A-work, and B-Work together to accomplish goals is something that’s lost.
When I was still working I was asked to grade some papers submitted by high school senior students that had to do with conservation and renewable energy sources for the departments scholarship program, these were supposed to be NEW ideas. I asked the gal who was running the program after reading through them the first time if I was supposed to grade everything and not just content, she said yes. With the exception of maybe three of the 35 papers submitted the grammar was atrocious, and there were spelling errors, both of those errors are highlighted in most word processing applications. To the meat of the matter, most of the papers were just filled with copy and pasted links, the one that jumps out is one paper talked about using “Bluetooth technology“ to help keep wind generators pointed into the wind. My first thought was, don’t you think the people who built them already figured that out? So I used the links provided and within the links it illustrated how these wind generators were kept pointed into the wind, hint hint, it’s not done with Bluetooth tech. Many of the papers were just plagiarized ideas, copied and pasted text directly from the on line sources, all of which got “corrected“ by myself, as well, I had found the source of their stolen verbiage and I provided the links. Those player ized papers received F’s.
The shining / stellar exception was the boy who went to Home Depot and bought some sink traps and made a T fitting with a valve that could be selected to divert the water out through the fitting to a line that ran through the wall to water the flowers in a bed on the other side of the wall. I graded his paper A+ and he got the scholarship award! By the way, all the papers only had a number, no names, what school etc. Further, his ( I found out later who one the scholarship) paper had great grammar and no spelling errors.
For quite a few years I used to go to the area schools of all grade levels and talk about how electricity was produced and how it got to their homes, definitely one of the enjoyable things I was able to do at work.
