tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post6598719856387616577..comments2024-03-29T05:21:11.278+00:00Comments on Ambush Predator: Not Before Time!JuliaMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-91086586145782368522014-04-29T05:21:36.696+01:002014-04-29T05:21:36.696+01:00"Why would you need to? Just go on facebook a...<i>"Why would you need to? Just go on facebook and READ their opinions...on everything."</i><br /><br />Indeed!<br /><br /><i>"From the age of 13, pupils at my school were encouraged to search out newspaper and magazine articles of interest to them."</i><br /><br />Ditto! We called it 'Social Studies'. <br /><br />I wonder how many of my classmates still read the news, now they don't have to?<br /><br />JuliaMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07844126589712842477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-17453107247126260402014-04-25T22:26:23.244+01:002014-04-25T22:26:23.244+01:00This is good news! Ms. Ryan should be encouraged i...This is good news! Ms. Ryan should be encouraged in promoting such sensible measures (revisiting 70 years past or so) about involving and interacting with the pupils in a positive way. For too long the pedagogic approach has limited the freedom of expression of children in the classrom - now the lowering of barriers between teacher and pupil-groups will encourage free dialogue and a synergistic development of unbounded positive results.Ed Pnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-46390862527179947152014-04-25T16:54:12.803+01:002014-04-25T16:54:12.803+01:00From the age of 13, pupils at my school were encou...From the age of 13, pupils at my school were encouraged to search out newspaper and magazine articles of interest to them. Each pupil would then stand in front of the class and read the article out loud. We would then discuss that article. To make things interesting, we sometimes had to read out someone else's chosen article prior to discussion. As well as giving us confidence in oration and discussion, it also improved our sense of humour in the choice of reading material. Mind you, we had a brilliant English teacher - no real teaching qualifications but who was a Major in the British Army in Burma during the war and who sometimes gave us excerpts from his diaries to read.<br />Kids today seem to be 'taught' - if that's the word - by left leaning clones of insipid stupidity.<br />PenseivatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-84774818892171107622014-04-25T16:43:59.520+01:002014-04-25T16:43:59.520+01:00I remember Roneo stuff at school...the school maga...I remember Roneo stuff at school...the school magazine was produced on it, it was shit quality.<br /><br />So was the magazine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-89252995401865998492014-04-25T16:03:12.335+01:002014-04-25T16:03:12.335+01:00Yer wot?Yer wot?Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-627081175329856970.post-90902260987400245882014-04-25T14:55:05.203+01:002014-04-25T14:55:05.203+01:00"it can be that no-one has ever asked them fo..."it can be that no-one has ever asked them for their opinions before."<br /><br />Why would you need to? Just go on facebook and READ their opinions...on everything.<br /><br />Back when I was 'young' we HAD to give voice to our opinions because otherwise it meant breaking into the school's typing room and one fingeredly typing them out then spending an hour trying to get the roneo-vickers mimeograph to work.<br /><br />Most teenagers now can tweet faster than they can formulate an opinion let alone an actual 'thought'.The Blocked Dwarfnoreply@blogger.com