Santa's List

[Greynomad]

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[Keith Morris]

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"tanks" here ---Ray, I use some words that are not in a dickshinery, but send the book anyway. I nevfer say no to gifts.
Keith.

[T1 Terry]

Google is much better at guessing the spelling and offering possible solutions, better to give them a smart phone and the smarts on how to use it to check spelling as well as meaning ...... one part is easy, the other requires both education and a willing student.
Are we teaching the wrong thing in schools now we live in the computer age?

[Greynomad]

Are we teaching the wrong thing in schools now we live in the computer age?

Let me think....
- Sex education
- Same-sex equality
- Family structure equality
- Respect for elders
- Table manners
- Money management/budgeting
- Aboriginal language/culture
- Environmental studies
- Family violence avoidance
- Diet/obesity
- Middle-Eastern culture (but not Christian Education in Victoria!)
- Drug & alcohol abuse
- Driver education
- Sport (mandatory in Vic)

Oh, and I think they squeeze in some English, maths and science... but that's apparently optional. And spelling & grammar are to be strictly avoided.

[T1 Terry]

Are we teaching the wrong thing in schools now we live in the computer age?

Let me think....
- Sex education
- Same-sex equality
- Family structure equality
- Respect for elders
- Table manners
- Money management/budgeting
- Aboriginal language/culture
- Environmental studies
- Family violence avoidance
- Diet/obesity
- Middle-Eastern culture (but not Christian Education in Victoria!)
- Drug & alcohol abuse
- Driver education
- Sport (mandatory in Vic)

Oh, and I think they squeeze in some English, maths and science... but that's apparently optional. And spelling & grammar are to be strictly avoided.

I seem to remember these subjects were taught after hrs and on the week end and generally sort of mixed together. The table manners and respect for elders was taught at home, driver education was also on the week ends when the highlighted two topics weren't being studied
Money management .... hmmm.... that sort of was learnt on the run after leaving home, although I had been working before/after school since I was 13yrs old so I was fairly financial independent anyway, but rent was a bit of a shock

[Greynomad]

T1,
I thought home was where we were taught maths, science, English, geography and algebra.
School is for teaching all the social stuff, innit?

[jon_d]

My spell checker didn't recognise dictionaries, however, it did find dictionary's.

Putting on my tin hat.



Tin Hat: noun. Used in protection from bright Rays

[Greynomad]

I shall ignore a blatant attempt at provocation.

[jon_d]

[T1 Terry]

I still think "How to use a search engine to make you smarter" would be a great gift for all. Over on another forum or three, "how to accept you don't know everything" should be mandatory reading before you can make the first post