Finally finished!!!!

[TheMightyFavog]

*Cue triumphant music from end of action movie....



Finally, my Mass. Comms paper is done!!!!!!




WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!



YEAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!

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1. Glad to hear it!

Congratulations!

What was the topic, what was your thesis, and did you prove it well?

[TheMightyFavog]

2. Much of the authors we read about...

Are blaming technology for falling literacy rates. I basically said that technology is not to bblame, but it's how children are taught how to read in this country. You know, the whole phonics vs. whole language debate.

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3. Good for you! Technology is blameless -

because technology simply "is", it doesn't have the ability act.

of course the fault is that many areas of the country - and I've seen this in my hometown - have equated mastery of a technology with education. So my nephew (sophomore in high school) has had a couple years of being required to do his research papers in powerpoint.

When I first heard this, I thought, "What the fucking fuck is that about?" I could see maybe in a class trying to integrate one's research exporation, especially the final oral report to the class, with some technologiocal breakthroughs just for shits and giggles and for developing an intellectual understanding (and subsequent value judgment) of that particular kind of process, but to think that doing a report in powerpoint is the equivalent to having actually mastered the amterial in the powerpoint presentation... that's just bullshit.

And my hometown used to have a pretty aamzingly and damn good educational system, overall, even though the really smart kids like me were ignored and pushed off to the side becasue we couldn't get separate classes adn so had to join classes with the average brain-dead idiot who couldn't give a damn about learning.