Target: Time Machine

[Dawn Sardes <Dmsardes@AOL.COM>]

Happy New School Year to All,

A teacher at a school here has given the assignment that students must
acquire a picture of a time machine.  However, they must not use the HG Wells
book.

Can anyone :

1. explain what educational validity this assignment has  (if my daughter
came home with it, I'd send her in with a picture of a clock),  I mean, what
could the goals of this unit be (besides to frustrate the students),

2.  tell me whether the teacher understands that such a device does not in
actuality exist, so why would one artist's conceptualization be less valid
than another's,

3.  explain why the teacher is not having the kids create their own time
machines,

4. lead me to non-Wellsian images of time machines?

Several of these kids aren't even aware that a time machine does not really
exist.  They're asking for pictures of "real" ones.

Dawn Sardes
Teen Services Librarian
Dmsardes@aol.com

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