This is what I'm dealing with: Assignment I gave to one of my classes.....

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Coventina (29,640 posts)

This is what I'm dealing with: Assignment I gave to one of my classes.....

Keep in mind, this is a college student.

I gave an assignment asking students to compare three different statues of human figures produced by three different cultures and discuss their differences. I specified that they had to choose from statues either discussed in class or provided in the course materials.

I covered all three cultures at length, and have a very robust supporting materials supplied to them as well.

The instructions for the assignments were given to them in writing, and I explained them verbally in class and asked if there were any questions.

This morning I got an email asking: "Do you have resources I can use or do I have to go out of my way to find the research?"



(and yes, this student was present when I gave out the assignment)

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221101615

A DUmmie teacher is a scary thought

[SVPete]

I supposed that it is possibly that what Coventina presented were so distorted or abstract that the student didn't recognize the examples as human. Or maybe the examples were visibly obviously male or female, and the student was afraid of the consequences of pointing out those facts.

It's more likely, sadly, that the college student is lazy, unmotivated, and nearly illiterate (i.e. (s)he thought Fun With Dick and Jane was a porno with Spot and Puff doing bestiality).

[FlaGator]

A product of liberal controlled education.

[SVPete]

A product of liberal controlled education.

Very likely. Along with that, if this college student is a recent high school grad, their middle school or junior high years were video-school-at-home, courtesy of Covid and the teachers unions.

[67 Rover]

Sounds like a class full of future barista's not STEM majors .

[Ralph Wiggum]

Reminds me of being an inquisitive child and asking my parents or grandparents a question about a word or fact? They'd immediately say "the dictionary is over on the shelf, so is the encyclopedia, so why don't you learn"?

[SVPete]

Sounds like a class full of future barista's not STEM majors .

Unless to satisfy a graduation requirement, her arts course sounds like something few STEM majors would willingly take. I've worked in "T" for mumble mumble decades. 19th Century English Lit would have been more to my taste.

Reminds me of being an inquisitive child and asking my parents or grandparents a question about a word or fact? They'd immediately say "the dictionary is over on the shelf, so is the encyclopedia, so why don't you learn"?

My parents didn't have to give me that "invitation". 1961 or 1962 edition World Book.

[DefiantSix]

...My parents didn't have to give me that "invitation". 1961 or 1962 edition World Book.

1982, in my case. And invitations were rarely necessary in my case: I was one of those weirdos who would grab one at random and start reading just to fill time on a slow day.