Comments on: Geographically Illiterate http://www.wolverinesden.org/2006/05/03/geographically-illiterate/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:35:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: Wolverine http://www.wolverinesden.org/2006/05/03/geographically-illiterate/#comment-815 Fri, 05 May 2006 22:45:14 +0000 http://www.wolverinesden.org/2006/05/03/geographically-illiterate/#comment-815 I have no idea why they bothered to include the CSI question. Perhaps they wanted to provide an easy one for average TV hounds. Personally, I've never seen the show, so that was the only question on the survey I missed. <strong>sunil:</strong> I think you summed it up pretty well. I just wish our young people would take more of an interest in the rest of the world; at present rate the problems seem to be getting worse at a steady rate... I'm afraid to see what these results will be like a decade from now. I have no idea why they bothered to include the CSI question. Perhaps they wanted to provide an easy one for average TV hounds. Personally, I’ve never seen the show, so that was the only question on the survey I missed.

sunil: I think you summed it up pretty well. I just wish our young people would take more of an interest in the rest of the world; at present rate the problems seem to be getting worse at a steady rate… I’m afraid to see what these results will be like a decade from now.

]]> by: sunil http://www.wolverinesden.org/2006/05/03/geographically-illiterate/#comment-808 Thu, 04 May 2006 11:50:54 +0000 http://www.wolverinesden.org/2006/05/03/geographically-illiterate/#comment-808 Wolverine, here I am trying the dignosis: 1. today's youth is least concentrate their mind on the general knowledge( not all, but most of them, they are clever in other subjects though) 2. most of them are least acquainted with the maps, may be of roads, cities, of state, of country, of continents, of the world, few percentage only may be know all such ) 3. in the periods eighter in school or collages, the childrens or the youths I have observed in many classes, eighter they are sleeping or making the paper-rocket to throw on their friends, or they just looks outside of the classroom from the windows, many school managements have given their staff special commands that " avoid the mistakes of their students and also their crazyness in the classroom as far as their non study mock activities going on in the classroom) 4. in the syllabus of geography subject, they do not prepare to their students for the map readings, many time teacher of this subject stress the theory and writing tips of the geography to appear in the exams, but they mostly do the mistake by "oversight" they forget to teach the map reading 5. if we are saying that teachers are well teaching the map reading to their students, but students can't understand that what their teachers are teaching them. ( there is gap of communication) you will be surprise to heard when we ask them " how many continents on the earth", they just smiles, many of them give the probable answers, many of them like to keep mum when they are asked by their teachers, 6. many students in this age group forget to recall their memories to read the accurate map reading in the given zone, or on the earth's picture shown to them. When I asked one fellow " what are Katrina and Rita" He replied these are the names of girls, but when I asked again that " these name have history to know" then He replied me that "may be the katrina and Rita are twin sisters", I laugh very loudly at that time :) what to do. even you will see that in the homework of the student for a particular student their parents forgets to take their knowledge power at the home in that particular topic, they forgets to teach thier son or daughter the " map reading", hence it is necessary, and it will be the real test of the student to look him how much he is master in that particular subject or area. there are many things to analize this quiestion, why they are not able to show the true destination in the map of a particular place, the student just laugh and prefer to chew the chewingum. :) Wolverine, here I am trying the dignosis:
1. today’s youth is least concentrate their mind on the general knowledge( not all, but most of them, they are clever in other subjects though)
2. most of them are least acquainted with the maps, may be of roads, cities, of state, of country, of continents, of the world, few percentage only may be know all such )
3. in the periods eighter in school or collages, the childrens or the youths I have observed in many classes, eighter they are sleeping or making the paper-rocket to throw on their friends, or they just looks outside of the classroom from the windows, many school managements have given their staff special commands that ” avoid the mistakes of their students and also their crazyness in the classroom as far as their non study mock activities going on in the classroom)
4. in the syllabus of geography subject, they do not prepare to their students for the map readings, many time teacher of this subject stress the theory and writing tips of the geography to appear in the exams, but they mostly do the mistake by “oversight” they forget to teach the map reading
5. if we are saying that teachers are well teaching the map reading to their students, but students can’t understand that what their teachers are teaching them. ( there is gap of communication) you will be surprise to heard when we ask them ” how many continents on the earth”, they just smiles, many of them give the probable answers, many of them like to keep mum when they are asked by their teachers,
6. many students in this age group forget to recall their memories to read the accurate map reading in the given zone, or on the earth’s picture shown to them. When I asked one fellow ” what are Katrina and Rita” He replied these are the names of girls, but when I asked again that ” these name have history to know” then He replied me that “may be the katrina and Rita are twin sisters”, I laugh very loudly at that time :) what to do. even you will see that in the homework of the student for a particular student their parents forgets to take their knowledge power at the home in that particular topic, they forgets to teach thier son or daughter the ” map reading”, hence it is necessary, and it will be the real test of the student to look him how much he is master in that particular subject or area.

there are many things to analize this quiestion, why they are not able to show the true destination in the map of a particular place, the student just laugh and prefer to chew the chewingum. :)

]]> by: ~Z~ http://www.wolverinesden.org/2006/05/03/geographically-illiterate/#comment-807 Thu, 04 May 2006 09:07:27 +0000 http://www.wolverinesden.org/2006/05/03/geographically-illiterate/#comment-807 I had to guess about the <em>CSI</em> one. I had to guess about the CSI one.

]]> by: The Ridger http://www.wolverinesden.org/2006/05/03/geographically-illiterate/#comment-803 Wed, 03 May 2006 22:00:59 +0000 http://www.wolverinesden.org/2006/05/03/geographically-illiterate/#comment-803 And knowing what city the original CSI was set in tests my knowledge of geography <em>how</em>, exactly? The question about population growth in the US was a more serious question, but again, not exactly geographical. And knowing what city the original CSI was set in tests my knowledge of geography how, exactly?

The question about population growth in the US was a more serious question, but again, not exactly geographical.

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