Re: SEC: Feedback: Yes or NO

[Jane Hohn <georgia_410@YAHOO.COM>]

Amen to Art's answer!!!  I have H.S. seniors who
wouldn't/couldn't do the project described, but I have
a 9th grader, 14 years old, who is doing a
semester-long, 5-page, typed project with MLA
citations and format required, on the Carolina
Panthers pro football team, and doing a terrific job
of it.  And, yes, he's getting lots of help, but he
wants to do it and that's what is important.

Answer to your question:  the proverbial "it all
depends...."

Jane Hohn, LMS
Nottoway High School
Nottoway VA  23955
georgia_410@yahoo.com


--- Art Wolinsky <awolinsky@OII.ORG> wrote:
> At 09:07 PM 10/24/2001 +0200, you wrote:
> >I just wanted some feedback about the following:
> >         Assignment Length: 1200 words
> >         Due Date: Feb 2002
> >         Topic: to choose from a list of 20
> >         Students Age: 13 years
> >
> >1. is this too difficult/hard for a 13 year old
> student?
>
> How about some feedback on the following?
> Shed size:  10' x 14'
> Date Due:  Feb 2002
> Design:  to choose from 20 floor plans
> Builder Age: 40
>
> 1.  is this too difficult for a 40 year old man?
>
> The answer to both questions depends in part on how
> much experience they
> have at the job they have been asked to do?  If you
> don't know how to
> "build" a 1200 word paper it will be about as
> painful to build as a shed
> that was built by someone who has a different full
> time job and has never
> hammered a nail or used a level.  In either case you
> are likely to end up
> with a poor product that was hastily done, and a
> builder who never wants to
> be put through that kind of pain again.
>
> Actually, neither job is too difficult regardless of
> experience.   A
> motivated individual will get through it.  The real
> question is whether
> either assignment is of value to the person who has
> to create them.  If
> they have some background and the job is a logical
> step above their
> previous experience level, there is good reason to
> proceed.
>
> On another level, the problem with the type of
> assignment listed above is
> the fact that 13 year old students seldom have the
> planning skills
> necessary to budget their time.  Unless there are
> benchmarks that students
> have to meet between now and February, where they
> have specific task due,
> you can be sure that the majority of the projects
> will be do the week that
> they are due.
>
> Art
>
>
>
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