Monday, February 11, 2008

Education Times

We received the latest version Pravda (aka Education Times). This is the 16th year of the tripe. It is just a propaganda piece. Everything is rosey, there are never any problems and there is never any criticism of the minister or her policies.
 
I was at a school that was asked to contribute to the 'this is what we do' page. It was supposed to be about how we used AFL in our classroom. Every one of the contributions was rubbish, we did none of it. It was all how we 'could' have used the AFL. Ironically, the only person who did use the AFL was me, in computers - and there was no way I was going to waste my time to write for Pravda.
 
Normally, I go straight to the appointments to see if there is somebody I know and it's then straight into the recycling bin. I took a bit more time as I knew there'd be something useful for this blog.
 
Newspaper photographers regularly set up stupid shots, trying to make the material seem more interesting. There is a picture of a girl soldering a circuit board. Apart from trying to solder the wrong side of the board, the caption says they are testing robots they designed in class. Sorry, but I can't believe that there is any way that she designed that circuit board.
 
I really couldn't be bothered reading the rest of the tripe.

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