: Found Money is Mad Money
Highlight of the day was me finding forty dollars on the sidewalk today.
I was walking to my truck at work, and saw green on the red brick at St. Philips. I looked, saw it was money, and exclaimed "Hey! Money!" Since no one else immediately claimed it (as a matter of fact, there were only myself, my director, and two Program Assistants around) I found myself forty dollars richer.
It's like a cheaper version of "My Name Is Earl."
And for some reason, I have to back up whenever I type "fourty."
PREP is going fairly well. The group of kids seem to be doing better than they have on my quizzes in the past.
In my Logic class, I give a ton of definitions. Mostly it's because they've never seen this stuff before (conjunctions, disjunctions, biconditionals, antecedents, consequents, and the like.) And for some reason, kids refuse to memorize them.
I tell them it's like the lyrics to a song. You know the lyrics to the song. And, if you went to a concert, and the artist just fumbled their way through the song's lyrics, you'd want your money back.
I then go through my "Old MacDonald" example. Everyone knows the words to "Old MacDonald," right? And we sing together.
"Old MacDonald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O.
And on this farm he had a ..."
...and everyone trails off, or waits expectantly for me to finish.
It emphasizes why I deem so much importance in the definitions. And why I hurt them so much gradewise when they fail to memorize them on quizzes.
Of course, on the tests, I do mostly applications, very little memorization at all. But knowing the definitions verbatim means they know what all the terms and symbols mean. And thus can do better on the test.
As for computer science, it's a mixed bag. Some students have already finished all the assigments for the course, and with one week left for the first group, I'm having to find other things for them to do.
For the rest of the students, they're treading water in this cookbook coding style (type this, ooh, it runs! Wow-wee!)
Tomorrow will be quite interesting, with a new DND campaign starting. I have high hopes for it.
~MP
Highlight of the day was me finding forty dollars on the sidewalk today.
I was walking to my truck at work, and saw green on the red brick at St. Philips. I looked, saw it was money, and exclaimed "Hey! Money!" Since no one else immediately claimed it (as a matter of fact, there were only myself, my director, and two Program Assistants around) I found myself forty dollars richer.
It's like a cheaper version of "My Name Is Earl."
And for some reason, I have to back up whenever I type "fourty."
PREP is going fairly well. The group of kids seem to be doing better than they have on my quizzes in the past.
In my Logic class, I give a ton of definitions. Mostly it's because they've never seen this stuff before (conjunctions, disjunctions, biconditionals, antecedents, consequents, and the like.) And for some reason, kids refuse to memorize them.
I tell them it's like the lyrics to a song. You know the lyrics to the song. And, if you went to a concert, and the artist just fumbled their way through the song's lyrics, you'd want your money back.
I then go through my "Old MacDonald" example. Everyone knows the words to "Old MacDonald," right? And we sing together.
"Old MacDonald had a farm,
E-I-E-I-O.
And on this farm he had a ..."
...and everyone trails off, or waits expectantly for me to finish.
It emphasizes why I deem so much importance in the definitions. And why I hurt them so much gradewise when they fail to memorize them on quizzes.
Of course, on the tests, I do mostly applications, very little memorization at all. But knowing the definitions verbatim means they know what all the terms and symbols mean. And thus can do better on the test.
As for computer science, it's a mixed bag. Some students have already finished all the assigments for the course, and with one week left for the first group, I'm having to find other things for them to do.
For the rest of the students, they're treading water in this cookbook coding style (type this, ooh, it runs! Wow-wee!)
Tomorrow will be quite interesting, with a new DND campaign starting. I have high hopes for it.
~MP