It has oft been said : "Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach." This is perception, especially among many radio lifers. This perception is accepted as a rule where it doesn't always apply.
The Pendleton program was a total fecal formation. At some point it was a study hall with music. A lot of things have changed. Some past problems are gone. You have a radio person asking for help, not hell.
Because it is a part of the education process it is probably as popular as a prostitute in church. (A prostitute needs to be in church despite the people who might not want her there.) So in the face of opening up for a challenge here is a person who IS in our business asking for help. Even if yo don't consider him in our business , he is.
I pointed out graduation rates not to shoot the messenger as good teachers don't make good students all the time. I have enough teachers as friends who tell me what they face every day with most students facing the same things we face. Look at ISTEP scores. We have one school in a multicounty area that passed the ISTEP and it isn't public. We make them take school seriously. It takes parents and students. Public schools can't make this happen or it just isn't happening.
Every student has ADD to some extent. We have created a culture that prides itself on new camera shots every 10 to 15 seconds in a program and expect students educated by television to sit in a classroom and maintain focus on one camera angle without graphics or advanced color set with life size led monitors, the time and temp, or a weather bug and ticker for a minimum of 45 minutes.
In college classes we teach that the message in church should be 8 minutes to 20 minutes because adults can't focus any longer than this. Our local priest is normally 10 minutes. A fill in from St. Meinrad, Father Pious, who is a great witty man, went 20 minutes and you would have thought he killed someone by the reaction of some.
Our society has created a constant distraction of ipods, iphones, any cellular phone, computers, 100 television channels, the need to have new and different responses to fill our voids. Kids are vary rarely bored. When I was 5 and turned the television on during breakfast I had snow or the WTTV Indian Head. Our society is now looking at all the new indocrinates as "Post moderns". Tough to teach, tough to relate to, and we are looking at a total culture change from generation to generation. My Ethnocentrism sees this and anyone who works with students sees this.
most schools are so above eveyone in the community they continue doing a half vast job of educating radio students because they know how to do it better than you, they know. Here's a guy asking for help, why not try to help? I have offered to help WEEM in it's upgrade to circular polarity. Not sure if this will be accepted but at least it has been offered.
I had a television program in my high school. It opened me up to many possibilities. Surely there are enough radio people who can get involved in some way. Help will not come without criticism and this is a fact of life. If you take the criticism constructively and accept the help not jsut one liners this could be a good thing.
Ben Davis MANY years back was something like this, Mount Carmel, IL and WVJC too.
The Pendleton program was a total fecal formation. At some point it was a study hall with music. A lot of things have changed. Some past problems are gone. You have a radio person asking for help, not hell.
Because it is a part of the education process it is probably as popular as a prostitute in church. (A prostitute needs to be in church despite the people who might not want her there.) So in the face of opening up for a challenge here is a person who IS in our business asking for help. Even if yo don't consider him in our business , he is.
I pointed out graduation rates not to shoot the messenger as good teachers don't make good students all the time. I have enough teachers as friends who tell me what they face every day with most students facing the same things we face. Look at ISTEP scores. We have one school in a multicounty area that passed the ISTEP and it isn't public. We make them take school seriously. It takes parents and students. Public schools can't make this happen or it just isn't happening.
Every student has ADD to some extent. We have created a culture that prides itself on new camera shots every 10 to 15 seconds in a program and expect students educated by television to sit in a classroom and maintain focus on one camera angle without graphics or advanced color set with life size led monitors, the time and temp, or a weather bug and ticker for a minimum of 45 minutes.
In college classes we teach that the message in church should be 8 minutes to 20 minutes because adults can't focus any longer than this. Our local priest is normally 10 minutes. A fill in from St. Meinrad, Father Pious, who is a great witty man, went 20 minutes and you would have thought he killed someone by the reaction of some.
Our society has created a constant distraction of ipods, iphones, any cellular phone, computers, 100 television channels, the need to have new and different responses to fill our voids. Kids are vary rarely bored. When I was 5 and turned the television on during breakfast I had snow or the WTTV Indian Head. Our society is now looking at all the new indocrinates as "Post moderns". Tough to teach, tough to relate to, and we are looking at a total culture change from generation to generation. My Ethnocentrism sees this and anyone who works with students sees this.
most schools are so above eveyone in the community they continue doing a half vast job of educating radio students because they know how to do it better than you, they know. Here's a guy asking for help, why not try to help? I have offered to help WEEM in it's upgrade to circular polarity. Not sure if this will be accepted but at least it has been offered.
I had a television program in my high school. It opened me up to many possibilities. Surely there are enough radio people who can get involved in some way. Help will not come without criticism and this is a fact of life. If you take the criticism constructively and accept the help not jsut one liners this could be a good thing.
Ben Davis MANY years back was something like this, Mount Carmel, IL and WVJC too.
But hey, I've learned to laugh at myself a long time ago. ;D However, if I haven't mis-read the situation, would my suggestion have merit based on the objective of focusing as much time and teaching on the student as possible? Maybe.