So I’ve been a little behind on my blog due to a combined shitstorm of Christmas and class work. However, I thought I’d give you all a small taste of my finals hell right now. This is the last assignment I received from a student. Here’s the question:
Technology continues to improve upon our ability to manipulate both still and moving images subtly enough to avoid easy detection. With this ability to manipulate the “reality” seen by an audience, ethical use of this power is essential. Where should the lines be drawn? Are there instances in which this subtle retouching of an image is actually beneficial? Create a set of guidelines for the ethical use of this image-manipulation technology in the news media.
Here was what I received:
1. power point
2. artistic
3. creativity
4. high quality
5. spends billions of dollars
6. information technology
7. computer technology
8. high tech quality
9. file format
10. pictures
Is it any wonder that I sometimes find myself in my office with my head on the keyboard, moaning “What the fuck?”
The children are our future, dear reader.
Dear Cranky,
Like your blog! I clicked an ad too!
Maybe it’s not our future that is bleak but that student’s future..
LV
Comment by lvintennessee — May 1, 2009 @ 9:03 pm
You are welcome to come visit my high school classroom anytime, if you’re interested in seeing the young zombies that will soon make up our workforce. It’s no wonder our economy crashed. Many students today don’t know how to THINK. If you look up the API or other test score data for schools, you will find some low performing schools improving, because they have been underperforming for years and public educators have been under pressure to raise scores. This is good. However, if you look at data for high performing schools, you will see slight drops in the scores. My interpretation: even our best and brightest are getting consistently dumber. I have suggestions, but they include totally revamping society and I’m too tired to enumerate the things I would change right now. Maybe I’ll have to start my own teaching/parenting blog this summer. You are living my blogging dream…
Comment by Nicole — May 2, 2009 @ 1:16 pm