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Originally Posted by renormalised
You call the scrawl most of these kids come up with creativity??!!!. I could write better than most them do these days when I was 7 or 8 years old!!!. Let me give you an instance of this so called "freedom of expression and creativity". I walked into the the Biological Sciences building at JCU, one day, to go see my lecturer and get back an assignment I handed in the previous day. When I walked through the main door of the building, I could hear someone going right off about something. As it turned out, it was my lecturer. I knocked on his door and stuck my head around the corner to see if it was OK to come in. He asked me to come in and sit down. He then handed me my assignment, saying I was one of only 5 students who had actually passed.
Know what he did next?? He showed me example of the other people's assignments and asked me what did I make of them. I couldn't even read half of them!!!!!!!!. Most couldn't spell simple words like "was, didn't, and, etc", quite a few didn't even get their own names right and the legibility of the writing...forget about that completely. These people were supposed to be good enough to enter Uni, yet they were functionally illiterate!!!!. I even checked up on their maths. Now I'm no maths genius, but I can count to ten without having to use all my toes and fingers. Some of these people couldn't even do that, by the looks of their assignments!!!!.
That's not creativity or freedom of expression. None of them would be able to express themselves creatively at all if they were made to do so. Also, on another point, the oral expression of most of these people was atrocious. It's the same with most students at school these days. Many can't even string along a simple conversation without resorting to profanities or "pidgin English". What creativity I have heard resulting from this wouldn't even make good reading if it were at all possible for them to write it down without the help of a computer and spell checker (which, by the way, are fairly hopeless).
These children aren't communicating effectively, except to those of their own generation and even there they manage not to get the point across all that well because they change the rules of speech like they change their underwear. These children have poor communications skills. Most can't put their ideas down on paper (or on screen) because they have less than adequate reading and writing skills, even less so when it comes to basic mathematical skills. They need "props" to even get by when using computers, which, by the way, are a tool not a panacea to poor learning.
This society is heading backwards....back to the times when there was a social elite that could rule over the masses because they could monopolise and manipulate learning, making it easier for themselves to pull the wool over people's eyes. If you don't think it's happening, then take a look at when politicians make pronouncements and put most of their garbage out into the media. Most people just fall for the spin because there's so many out there who can't understand what they're on about. Most people have attention spans as short as a gnats...ask them a week later what "xyz" was on about and they won't know.
Education in general has a lot left to be desired.
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Hi
Its a bit hard to respond to this because its all your conclusions about the papers you read. I understand that you concluded that the papers did not communicate effectively but thats based on your traditional way of assessing these things and thats really what we are debating.
But if there was anything in your post that seemed way out of line to me it was your lecturer giving you other peoples papers to read and critically appraise. Frankly I think that was digusting. Very poor performance indeed.